I would like the Wikimedia Foundation NOT to do that. Our user privacy is
to be respected. People who applied for scholarships had every reason to
expect that the WMF would not publish their names if they were not awarded
one, for example. Nobody who applies is guaranteed a WMF scholarship;
however, several other organizations actively provide scholarships to
community members who did not receive a WMF scholarship. Transparency does
not require putting users into embarrassing or awkward situations, and many
users who applied for scholarships may not have done so if they were told
that the names and details of their application would be published. The
scholarship committee is made up largely of volunteers, and they don't
deserve the inevitable brickbats that would be thrown their way if
particularly vocal members of the community disagreed with their decisions.
And it's a given that just about every member of the community will
disagree with one or more decision made by the committee. So no, please
don't publish any details of any application, or how any individual
candidate was assessed. That's not transparency.
Risker/Anne
On 18 April 2017 at 22:51, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja <pavanaja(a)vishvakannada.com>
wrote:
Hello,
I would like WMF to make the list of applicants, their contributions, the
weightage used for each kind of contribution and the final list of
scholarship awardees in a table form. Since WMF is run by the contributions
of the volunteers, such a transparency is definitely needed from WMF. I
hope WMF will oblige.
Regards,
Pavanaja
*From:* Wikimania-l [mailto:wikimania-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] *On
Behalf Of *Ellie Young
*Sent:* 19 April 2017 01:23 AM
*To:* Wikimania general list (open subscription)
*Subject:* [Wikimania-l] WMF Scholarships to attend Wikimania
Everyone who applied for a scholarship to Wikimania '17 has been notified
about the status. If you have not heard, please check your spam filter,
or send email to ask about the status to: wikimaniascholarships@
wikimedia.org
April 18 is the deadline for people who were offered a scholarship to
respond.
A final list of everyone who was awarded and able to accept will be posted
to on the wiki in early May.
We expect registration for Wikimania '17 to go live on or before May 1st.
--
Ellie Young
Events Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
eyoung(a)wikimedia.org
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