Dear Subhashish,
According to you, making noise about your contributions is more important than actually
doing the things. I have been saying this for quite some time – it is always the talkers
who get noticed and get credited while doers keep doing silently. So one has to be more
active in social media, writing blogs, getting mentioned in English media, etc. Thanks
for enlightening.
Regards,
Pavanaja
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Panigrahi
Sent: 19 April 2017 10:26 AM
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Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] WMF Scholarships to attend Wikimania
I too can't agree with Risker more on the privacy aspects. Also, it's important to
respect those handful of community members that were part of the scholarship committee
would have spent hours evaluating a few thousand applications, and the WMF staff who were
part of it. If I can summarize what a former committee member shared on Facebook some time
ago - a lot of deserving Wikimedians do not get a scholarship. But it's almost
impossible for the committee to make everything right. Also many deserving applicants miss
out communicating their contribution clearly which doesn't leave the committee to
evaluate their applications with a full knowledge of those applicants' contribution.
Being a great contributor is one thing, and being able to communicate one's
contribution with context to someone less familiar with a contributor's home community
is another thing. When this situation can be made better by creating learning patterns and
other learning documents so that many contributors, especially those whose native language
is not English can be benefited, it is NOT OK to share awarded/rejected application
details. Wikimedians and many others that are trying to do the right thing by sharing
knowledge are already in risk because of their public writing. It will be insane to put
them in more risk. A former colleague and a fellow Wikimedian and I received legal threats
once from someone who was failing to retain a Wikipedia article, and it made me scared
even though I was working in an organization full of lawyers.
Let's assume some good faith here, and better the resources that would be useful for
many applicants for the coming years.
Subhashish
On 19-Apr-2017, at 9:42 AM, Adrian Raddatz <ajraddatz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Agree with what Risker said above, that it's hard to get community members to
volunteer for these committees. That's the easiest way to get involved if you
don't think the process is going well.
Adrian Raddatz
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 9:04 PM, Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Pavajana, it's the user names that are confidential in this case. Nothing stops
unsuccessful candidates from publishing their own names, if they wish. How many do you
think will do that?
Risker/Anne
On 18 April 2017 at 23:56, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja <pavanaja(a)vishvakannada.com> wrote:
Wikimedia contributions are public numbers. If username is known, all contributions can be
found out. What is secrecy in that? Only thing not disclosed is how the evaluations are
done. This should be made public, since the entire movement is run by public funding.
Regards,
Pavanaja
From: Wikimania-l [mailto:wikimania-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Gnangarra
Sent: 19 April 2017 09:12 AM
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Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] WMF Scholarships to attend Wikimania
Contributions is such wide term are you talking about edits in projects or work on the
ground in assisting others, what about the unseen work like supporting an affiliate to be
successful or a GLAM to open up its resources
When talking about edits is a photo uploaded to commons worth more because its used in
multiple projects than some one who starts an article in one language, does an english wp
edit have a greater weigh over a french wp edit because it has more potential viewers or
does a noongar wp edit in the incubator which is opening access to a whole new culture and
language to the movement have greater value.
Issue around the fair balance across communities of access to Wikimania is also a
question does a country with well financed chapter have less to contribute compared to a
country closer but limited finanaces, does a counrty where it'll cost 5-10,000 US$ for
each attendee deserve greater numbers supported because its not possible for people to
attend over a country that the cost is less than US$1000, would 10 people attending be
better than 1 person attending.
Does a country with 20 million people deserve to 1/10th the amount of attendees of a
country with 200million people. Every one contributes in the way they feel most
comfortable and safe. For some time is unlimited for others time contributing is a
constant risk there is no way we as community can openly value these, the committee does
the best it can with the knowledge presented to them by the candidates.... Whether we
agree with the decisions of the committee or not the individuals should not be subject to
the vitriol that the community can and does hand out regularly nor should they be put at
excessive risk for what they have done.
A list of everyone who accepts a scholarship enables transparency in ensuring reporting
from those people, but even that can carry a risk for them. Putting contributions how ever
its defined increases the risk of harm both from within the community and from outside,
doing harm to satisfy curiosity isnt acceptable
On 19 April 2017 at 10:51, 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
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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(a)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.
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Wikimedia Foundation
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