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Revision as of 19:53, 21 February 2025
New York City — 16-19 October 2025
(pre- or post-conferences possible)
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Scholarship applications will be open in early March.
Deadlines
This year, there will be only one call for scholarships.
- Scholarship application opens: March 3, 2025
- Scholarship application closes: April 4, 2025
Eligibility
You must live in North America to be eligible for a scholarship. Applications from outside North America will be rejected.
Scholarships
This year we will offer one type of scholarship:
- Full scholarship (accommodation and travel cost)
Evaluation process
You will be asked a number of questions on your contributions to the Wikimedia movement, from which your application will be assessed by the Scholarship Committee.
Scholarship applicants will be notified of their outcome after the Scholarship Committee evaluates their application in early May. For those that have been successful, we will then be in further contact about booking accommodation and travel arrangement.
Scholarship information
What is covered in scholarship?
- Registration fee
- Conference swag
- Lunches on conference days
- Medical insurance (if you are travelling from outside of the U.S.)
What is not covered in scholarship?
- Passport application fees
- Meals on pre-conference days, as well as breakfast and dinners on conference days
- Local travel cost from the place of your residence to the departure airport, train and bus station (and vice versa)
- Travel cost within New York City (e.g. airport/train station to the hotel and vice versa)
- Baggage, advance seat selection or ticket change fee
- Other incidentals and sundry costs
All scholarship recipients are expected to volunteer for 3 hours in parts of the conference. Volunteer roles include trust & safety, registration (check-in desk), logistics, programming, facilitating session (room manager, mic runner), translation, photography and others. The role will be coordinated by the Volunteer Coordinator at a later date, after scholarships have been awarded.
Scholarship recipients that include accommodation will stay at an accommodation booked by the Wikimedia Foundation. To afford as many scholarships as possible, we expect scholarship recipients to share a room with two beds with another scholarship recipient. Exceptions could be made on a case-by-case basis.