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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

是否有具體之報告要求？

今年，我們請求獲獎助者擔任活動志工來代替報告。我們會協助您找到適合自身需求、技能及經驗的工作。當然，您還是可以撰寫報告。

我是否可以轉移獎助金與他人？

否。為求公平，獎助金一律按特定之先後次序發放。若您拒絕接受獎助金，我們會將其給予下一順位者。

若我拒絕接受今年會議的獎助金，是否還可以延後至下次使用？

否。每年會議的主題都不相同，且會依據各地情況有所調整。我們歡迎您明年再次申請，並將繼續確保將您的寶貴貢獻納入審核考慮。

若我未能獲得獎助金，是否可以要求重新審核申請？

否。申請流程已經過若干審慎之評估環節，並不能重複進行。

我未能獲得獎助金。我還應該怎麼辦？

取得獎助金並非參與維基媒體國際會議的先決條件；您若能負擔相關費用，當然也可以自行註冊並參與會議。

若您尚無法負擔相關費用，則強烈建議您接洽自身所在地的維基媒體運動自治體；他們可能亦有提供獎助金計畫，或將舉辦本地活動。

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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