Wikimania 2022/Scholarships/Wikimedia Polska/Report
Scholarship process
[edit]The scholarships were distributed by a committee of community members supported by a WMPL community support staff member and the office manager. The process was designed to be very straightforward and providing the applicant a quick decission.
All the applications were accepted and all applicants have received funding.
Item | Number |
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Number of scholarships | 9 |
Small equipement sets funded | 3 |
Number of live events organized | 3 |
Number of people participating in live events | 27 |
Number of online participants who received lunch sets | 6 |
Number data packages funded | 2 |
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Other items funded:
- transport for person with special needs
- Wikimania swag
Events
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We have organized 3 live events for watching or discussing Wikimania. They have been organized in 3 cities, where the most active local communities are based:
- Warsaw
- Katowice
- Poznań
Overall 27 people participated. To make the events accesible and inclusive we provided childcare during the events and funded transport for people with special needs.
Learnings
[edit]- it is important that the process is simple and quick so that it is easy to participate
- for the first time we organized a longdistance (250 km) transport for a person with special needs, which helped us to work on processes for similar future cases and implement them for our future events
- combing an online event with local live events helped in brining the Wikimania festive atmosphere to our community!