Thank you Ellie for the short breakdown of the stats in here. Will be on standby for more of these stats to be put up on the wiki.
I think things will be more clearer when all the stats are up. Thanks. On 11 Mar 2016 7:25 pm, "Ellie Young" <eyo...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Isla, > > I am in the process of putting up information from the scholarship > committee onto the wiki and will respond to the other thread on wikimania-l > soon. > > 124 Scholarships were awarded. > > Of the 400 scholarships that passed into Phase 2 of the review, 20 were > African applicants passed Phase 2. 4 of those got scholarships, so by my > calculations that's 20% of the eligible African applicants. > > Geographic regions are *not* the emphasis of the program. > > You might want to take this up directly with the Scholarship Committee if > you have ideas for changes to the program in the future? > > Ellie Young > WMF Events Manager > on behalf of the Scholarship Committee > > > > On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 6:18 AM, Isla Haddow Flood < > i...@wikiloveswomen.org> wrote: > >> Okay - so - of 170 potential full and partial scholarships offered by the >> WMF, Africa got 4. >> >> FOUR. >> >> that is 0.02% of what was on offer. >> >> Mexico I could understand was difficult to access. BUT you couldn’t get >> closer to Africa than Italy, if you tried. >> >> That is just not acceptable. >> >> >> On 11 Mar 2016, at 3:50 PM, Douglas Scott <douglas.i.sc...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> I got a partial scholarship which means I wont have to pay to be at the >> conference venue but I will have to pay for my own flight. >> >> On 11 March 2016 at 15:43, Ian Gilfillan <wikimedi...@greenman.co.za> >> wrote: >> >>> I applied, also didn't get. >>> >>> On 11/03/2016 14:46, Isla Haddow Flood wrote: >>> >>> Hello All >>> >>> Just want to do a quick head count to see who got a scholarship to >>> attend Wikimania. Please just let us know who got one, and who didn’t. >>> >>> thanks! >>> Isla >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> African-Wikimedians mailing list >>> African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Douglas Ian Scott >> 司道格 >> Skype: douglas0scott >> South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727 >> _______________________________________________ >> African-Wikimedians mailing list >> African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians >> >> >> *Isla Haddow-Flood* >> Project Manager: WikiAfrica >> Username: Islahaddow >> >> >> > > > -- > Ellie Young > Events Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > eyo...@wikimedia.org > c. 510 701 8649 > > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list > African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians > >
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