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The scholarship application process has concluded. All the applicants were notified by e-mail about the outcome of their submission. Here you can find out more information about the scholarships and the distribution of scholars in diferrent regions. If you want to learn about the application process itself, please refer to a separate page.

What's covered

For both partial and full scholarships, Wikimedia Foundation covers accomodation, food and registration fees. Additionally, full scholarships also include flights, transport and limited medical insurance.

Meals in the time of lunch and dinner during pre-conference, conference days, and closing party will be provided at the venue. Breakfast will be covered by the hotel.

FAQ

Ni mahitaji gani ya kuripoti?

Badala ya kuripoti, tunaomba wasomi waunge mkono kwa kujitolea kwenye hafla hiyo. Tutashirikiana nawe kutafuta jukumu linalofaa mahitaji yako, ujuzi na uzoefu. Unaweza kuandika ripoti, ingawa!

'Naweza kupitisha udhamini wangu kwa mtu mwingine?

Hapana. Ili kutoa usawa, ufadhili wa mkutano ulipitiwa kwa mpangilio fulani wa sifa. Ikiwa mpokeaji atathibitisha kuikataa, tutaiwasilisha kwa mtu mwingine kwa utaratibu wa ukaguzi.

Iwapo nitakataa ufadhili wa mwaka huu, naweza kuupitisha kwa Wikimania ya mwaka ujao?'

Hapana. Kila mwaka Wikimania iliwekwa chini ya mada tofauti chini ya kuzingatia kila COT katika maeneo fulani. Tutakuhimiza utume ombi tena kwa mwaka unaofuata, lakini tutahakikisha kwamba tunazingatia mchango wako muhimu unaoendelea katika mchakato wetu wa ukaguzi.

Ikiwa sikupokea ufadhili wa masomo, naweza kuuliza kikundi cha wafadhili kukagua ombi langu tena?

Hapana. Mchakato wetu wa ukaguzi unahusisha hatua kadhaa za uangalifu, na kwa masikitiko, unaweza kukamilishwa mara moja pekee.

Niliomba ufadhili wa masomo lakini sikuupata. Nifanye nini sasa?

Kupata udhamini sio lazima kwa kuhudhuria Wikimania; unaweza pia kujiandikisha kuhudhuria mradi tu unaweza kulipia gharama zako mwenyewe.

Ikiwa huwezi kulipia gharama zako mwenyewe, tunakuhimiza sana uwasiliane na mshirika katika eneo lako. Wanaweza kuwa wanaendesha programu yao ya ufadhili au kuandaa hafla ya karibu!

Results

Individual scholarships

There were over 1400 scholarship applications graded by the Scholarship Review working group for this year's Wikimania. The Core Organizing Team recognizes that conferences are an important space of celebration and knowledge exchange in our Movement, and we wish we could have granted a scholarship to all deserving applicants. The vast majority of applications were compelling, and this year saw an increase in the number of applications that made it to final review by the Core Organizing Team.

While we were able to grow the scholarships budget and increase the total number of scholarships offered this year (up by 25% from 2023 and double the number given in 2019), the process was still highly competitive—roughly 1 in 7 participants was accepted. The numbers below show by region the applications and the number of scholars we aim to accept. Note that for 2024 we have shifted our resources to awarding more partial scholarships to the people physically closer to the in-person event (CEE, NWE and MENA). Along with covering partial and full in-person scholarships, the Wikimedia Foundation will continue to subsidize the in person ticket for all attendees. The Foundation will also cover all costs related to the virtual event, staffing and language translations which make our event inclusive—it will remain free to attend virtually.

In the next few weeks and months, we will be publishing data about the scholarship process. We would like to publish several “lessons learned”, both for the community and future organizers and useful resources for future applicants (including a few best-scored applications from this year and general comments that should be useful in application preparing for future Wikimanias and other conferences).

Application and awardee distribution in regions

Region	Applications	% Applications compared to total	Total scholars we plan to accept	Regional % compared to total
Sub-Saharan Africa	501	34.96%	29	13.36%
Central Asia	79	5.51%	10	4.61%
Central & Eastern Europe	128	8.93%	49	22.58%
East, Southeast Asia & Pacific	170	11.86%	31	14.29%
Middle East & North Africa	94	6.56%	18	8.29%
North America	65	4.54%	11	5.07%
Latin America & Caribbean	85	5.93%	13	5.99%
South Asia	182	12.70%	16	7.37%
Northern & Western Europe	129	9.00%	40	18.43%
Subtotal	1433	—	217	—
Other	—	—	35	—
Total scholarships			252	—

Statistics for Wikimania 2023 are also available.

Hub and regional conferences scholarships [NEW IN 2024!]

In 2024, the Wikimania organizers decided to, for the first time in history, include regional communities, meetings and hubs in the process of directly naming their representatives to Wikimania. This new approach is being used on trial basis for 2024 to ensure that regional and expertise diversities are present at Wikimania 2024 in Katowice.

The Core Organizing Team decided to award around 14% of all available scholarship seats to:

• some of the Wikimedia Hubs,
• some of the regional Wikimedia conferences.

In addition, three regions/hubs (ESEAP, EARTH and WikiFranca) will have auxiliary representatives due to their Wikimania Core Organizing Teams as representatives.

Division of hub and regional meeting scholarship seats

Hub/meeting	Region	# of seats	Names of representatives
Wikimedia EARTH Hub	Sub-Saharan Africa	1	Coming at the appropriate time
Wiki Indaba Meeting	Sub-Saharan Africa + Middle East & North Africa	1
WikiConference India	South Asia	1
Wikimedia CEE Hub	Central & Eastern Europe & Central Asia (CEE & CA)	3
Wikimedia CEE Meeting
Wikimedia Iberocoop Hub	Latin America & Caribbean (+ participation from Italy, Portugal and Spain)	2
Wikimedia Iberoconf
WikiArabia Conference	Middle East & North Africa	1
Wikimedia ESEAP Hub	East, Southeast Asia & Pacific	2
Wikimedia ESEAP Conference		1
WikiConference North America	North America	1
Multi-regional + Themathic
WikiFranca Hub	Multi-regional (Africa + Canada + France)	1	Coming at the appropriate time
Wikiconvention francophone		1
Wikimedia Europe	Multi-regional	1
Volunteer Supporters Network	Thematic	1
Wikimedia Language Diversity Hub		1
Content Partnerships Network		1
Total		19 seats

Contact us!

If you have any questions regarding Wikimania, feel free to contact our team, writing to wikimaniawikimedia.org.

If possible, we kindly request not to send us questions on social media – we use the profiles on Facebook, Twitter etc. to keep you updated, but we don't check their inboxes very often.

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