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User:Rsrikanth05

From Wikimania 2016 • Esino Lario, Italy

Rsrikanth05 from India. Rollbacker, vandal fighter on enwp, just another fellow on Wikidata and frequent traveller on Commons.


You will most likely not meet me at Wikimania because I have a penchant for my scholarship applications being rejected since my first application in 2010. I consider it a waste of money to spend the minimum 500+ US Dollars it costs to attend a Wikimania out of my pocket. However, since nobody is interested in funding my attendance, I won't be seen there. So much for the Global South. I have been criticised by other members of the community and WMF employees for being juvenile and childish for making a statement that I won't be attending because I haven't got a scholarship. The irony is that the same people were busy consoling a previous attendee when he said he won't be attending Wikimania for lack of a scholarship.

Note: I am watching this page. Do not try and remove this.

As correctly predicted, my scholarship application has been rejected. It does hurt to have your application rejected for 6 years in a row, when you have been contributing to multiple WikiProjects [Wikidata, Wikipedia, Commons and the local Chapter] for nearly 11 years.