[Wikimedia-l] Wikimania Scholarships starts February 17!

2020-02-08 Thread Roman Bustria Jr. 
Hello Everyone!

As you may know, Wikimania 2020, will happen on 5–9 August 2020 in Bangkok,
Thailand. The *Wikimedia Foundation Scholarships Program* is offering a
limited number of scholarships to cover the cost of selected individuals’
travel, conference registration fee, and accommodation to attend Wikimania
using funding provided by the Wikimedia Foundation
 (WMF).

   - Scholarship applications open: *17 February 2020*
   - Deadline for applying for scholarships: *16 March 2020* 23:59:59 UTC.
   - Phase 1 eligibility assessment by the WMF: March (no notification
   about the outcome)
   - Phase 2 in-depth evaluations by the Scholarship Committee
   
:
   April
   - Applicants are notified about final decisions: by early May
   - The final list
   

of
   recipients is announced *May/June* .

For more information, you can visit the following links:

https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2020:Scholarships

https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships/FAQ

https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships/Selection_Process

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Wikimania_scholars/Reviewer's_guide

https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Scholarship_Committee


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Kind regards,

Butch Bustria
Wikimedia ESEAP
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fresh data on the gender gap in content

2020-02-08 Thread Asaf Bartov 
Hello, everyone.

Back in June 2016, on this thread, I had published some data on the *content
gender gap* in Wikipedia biographies (i.e. how many articles are about men
versus how many are about women). I intended to keep generating snapshots
of these stats, to track progress against the gap, but then realized the
excellent WHGI project[1] is already collecting and preserving snapshots of
the data, so I did not do so myself.

However, being curious about the numbers for a particular community, I
realized WHGI does not provide an easy way to compare snapshots across
time.  The data is all there[2], but a convenient visualization and
comparison tool between two arbitrary snapshots is not available yet.  So
while I did not build such a tool myself, I did update my little page with
fresh numbers, *plus a comparison to the June 2016 *numbers.

You may find the data interesting:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ijon/Content_gap#Data_as_of_February_2020
(note that the table is sortable by clicking the column heads)

While it is difficult to ascribe the change to specific programs, overall
there can be little doubt that the increased attention to the content
gender gap, alongside specific programs and groups such as Women in Red,
Art+Feminism, WikiMujeres, WikiDonne, and even certain runs of
#100wikidays, have all contributed to narrowing the gap on most Wikipedias.

Special congratulations to the Punjabi, Malayalam, and Odia Wikipedias,
which have all narrowed the gap by more than 10 points!  Of the larger
wikis, great progress was made by the Vietnamese and Armenian Wikipedias.

As before, I'll note:

1. Your efforts, particularly on small-to-medium wikis, can really make a
dent in these numbers!

2. I encourage you to share these numbers with your communities.  Perhaps
you'd like to overtake the wiki just above yours? :)

Cheers,

   A.

[1] https://whgi.wmflabs.org/gender-by-language.html
[2] https://whgi.wmflabs.org/snapshot_data/

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 10:14 PM Asaf Bartov  wrote:

> Hullo everyone.
>
> I was asked by a volunteer for help getting stats on the gender gap in
> content on a certain Wikipedia, and came up with simple Wikidata Query
> Service[1] queries that pulled the total number of articles on a given
> Wikipedia about men and about women, to calculate *the proportion of
> articles about women out of all articles about humans*.
>
> Then I was curious about how that wiki compared to other wikis, so I ran
> the queries on a bunch of languages, and gathered the results into a table,
> here:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ijon/Content_gap
>
> (please see the *caveat* there.)
>
> I don't have time to fully write-up everything I find interesting in those
> results, but I will quickly point out the following:
>
> 1. The Nepali statistic is simply astonishing! There must be a story
> there.  I'm keen on learning more about this, if anyone can shed light.
>
> 2. Evidently, ~13%-17% seems like a robust average of the proportion of
> articles about women among all biographies.
>
> 3. among the top 10 largest wikis, Japanese is the least imbalanced.  Good
> job, Japanese Wikipedians!  I wonder if you have a good sense of what
> drives this relatively better balance. (my instinctive guess is pop culture
> coverage.)
>
> 4. among the top 10 largest wikis, Russian is the most imbalanced.
>
> 5. I intend to re-generate these stats every two months or so, to
> eventually have some sense of trends and changes.
>
> 6. Your efforts, particularly on small-to-medium wikis, can really make a
> dent in these numbers!  For example, it seems I am personally
> responsible[2] for almost 1% of the coverage of women on Hebrew Wikipedia!
> :)
>
> 7. I encourage you to share these numbers with your communities.  Perhaps
> you'd like to overtake the wiki just above yours? :)
>
> 8. I'm happy to add additional languages to the table, by request.  Or you
> can do it yourself, too. :)
>
>A.
>
> [1] https://query.wikidata.org/
> [2] Yay #100wikidays :) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/100wikidays
> --
> Asaf Bartov
> Wikimedia Foundation 
>
> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
> sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
> https://donate.wikimedia.org
>


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