Hey everyone, After Käbi's announcement, I would like to share with you more about the changes we are bringing to the scholarship process for Wikimania 2024!
*What’s new this year?* *Splitting affiliate staff and volunteer review process:* - To ensure fairness in the scholarship review process, we will be reviewing volunteer applications separately from those of paid affiliate staff. Paid staff's achievements should not be compared to volunteers' achievements. - *Paid affiliate staff are still eligible for the scholarship*, but their contributions will be considered against other staff members only, maintaining fair competition for everyone. *Giving more powers to the Wikimedia Hubs:* - Given the Wikimedia Hubs' natural understanding of their local communities, we decided to include them in the scholarship process. - After the scholarship subcommittee publishes scholarship decisions, we will allow for *each currently active Wikimedia Hub [1] to delegate 1-3 additional Wikimedians to receive a scholarship*. - We do this to help ensure regional diversity amongst scholarship recipients. We will all benefit from Hubs’ regional knowledge in this matter. We hope that this will lead to a more diverse background of scholarship recipients and will bring a unique mix of participants to our event. Thank you for your engagement, we are looking forward to your applications! CEE you at Wikimania 2024! [1] The list is to be decided by the Core Organizing Team after conversations with relevant stakeholders Cheers! In the name of the Wikimania 2024 Core Organizing Team -- Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz (He/him) Wikimania 2024 Poland – Team Lead Wikimedia Europe Board Member Wikipedia Administrator User:Nadzik <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nadzik> śr., 15 lis 2023 o 20:32 Käbi Laan <ka...@wikimedia.ee> napisał(a): > *Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2024 are open until December 18! > Apply now for a full or partial scholarship to attend Wikimania in person > in Poland! * > > > > * This year’s theme will be “Collaboration of the Open”--a celebration of > the ways we work together, in the open and for the larger open movement, to > bring free knowledge to the world. We are working on finalizing the venue > and dates before the end of the year, but can confirm that Wikimania will > be held in Poland sometime between mid-July and mid-August. To ensure that > Wikimedians needing visas for Poland have enough time to apply, we are > starting the scholarships process now. Scholarships will be available in > two forms: - Full scholarship: travel, accommodation, and registration are > provided; - Partial scholarship: accommodation and registration are > provided. Apply for a Wikimania 2024 scholarship now! > <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024:Scholarships> Make sure to share > your experiences during your Wikimedia movement journey and support with > links. Newcomers are encouraged to apply–this year we are aiming for newer > generations of Wikimedians and those who work on connecting the Wikimedia > Movement to the wider open ecosystem of knowledge and culture. The deadline > to apply for a scholarship is December 18, end of the day anywhere in the > world. Applicants will be notified of decisions in the first half of > February. Read more on Wikimania Wiki > <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024:Scholarships>. Have questions? > You can reach the Scholarships Committee directly at > wikimania-scholarsh...@wikimedia.org > <wikimania-scholarsh...@wikimedia.org>. Best, The Wikimania 2024 Core > Organizing Team * > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list -- wikimani...@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimania-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org >
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