2024/Attendance/Scholarships
Indianapolis — 3-6 October 2024
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Scholarship applications are closed.
Deadlines
This year, there will be only one call for scholarships.
- Scholarship application opens: May 1, 2024
- Scholarship application closes: May 31, 2024
Eligibility
You must live in North America to be eligible for a scholarship. Applications from outside North America will be rejected.
Scholarship types
We offer two types of scholarships:
- Full scholarship (accommodation and travel cost)
- Partial scholarship (accommodation or travel cost)
You may also select "I am applying for a full scholarship, but would be able to attend if awarded a partial scholarship."
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. 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 swags
- Lunches on conference days are included for all scholarship recipients
- Hotel breakfast if your partial scholarship includes accommodation
What is not covered in scholarship?
- Visa and passport application fees
- Meals on pre-conference days and dinners on conference days
- Breakfast if your partial scholarship only covers travel
- Local travel cost from the place of your residence to the departure airport, train and bus station (or vice versa)
- Travel cost within Indianapolis (e.g. airport/train station to the hotel and vice versa)
- Baggage or advance seat selection 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, logistics, programming, facilitating session, translation, photography and others. The role will be coordinated by the Volunteer Coordinator at a later date, after scholarships have been assigned.
Scholarship recipients that include accommodation will stay at Hampton Inn/Homewood Suites Indianapolis Downtown IUPUI (414 West Vermont St). 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.