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20:24, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

Wikimania 2016 scholarships

Dear Wikimedians,

As every year, Wikimedia Polska Association is accepting scholarship requests for this year’s Wikimania, to be held at the Italian town of Esino Lario, June 22-28. The scholarship encompasses travel expenses, accomodation, insurance and the possible conference fee. Please submit your requests by email to wikimania@wikimedia.pl from March 14, 00:00:01 (CET) by March 27, 23:59:59 (CET). Up to two international scholarships will be funded. The scholarship request, submitted in English or Polish, ought to contain:

  • short description of your activity within the Wikimedia movement, your real name, your global username or local usernames, Wikimedia activity outside project editing (including local chapter activity), prior input into the Wikimedia conferences, especially international ones;
  • information about your desired participation in the conference: planned or submitted lectures or other activities during Wikimania or its associated events;
  • information about your forecast activity in pre- and post-conference activities, with the justification for participating in these non-core conference activities;
  • declaration of your command of English sufficient to actively participate in the conference;
  • information about the international airport closest to your place of residence;
  • declaration of being 18 years or older; in case of younger applicants, 16-18, a scan of a parent’s or legal guardian’s consent to the participation in the conference;
  • the information on citizenship(s) held;
  • agreement to provide and process your personal data (name, address, bank account details, passport number) if the scholarship is granted. Please, do not provide these personal details in the application itself, apart from your real name.

On the behalf of the Scholarship Commitee, Wpedzich (talk) 19:53, 13 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

18:37, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

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16:04, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi, a minor correction: The MediaWiki deployment dates are March 22–24, not 21–23. My apologies. /Johan (WMF) (talk) 08:16, 22 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

19:43, 28 March 2016 (UTC)