Research:Wikimedia France Research Award
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Research project
| Wikimedia France Research Award 2012 | |
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| main contact | |
| WMF contact | Dario Taraborelli |
| start | 2011-10 |
| end | 2012-12 |
| status | planned  |
 Wikimedia research projects |
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Work in progress, feel free to comment and give ideas on the talk page
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[edit] Project summary
Wikimedia France is initiating an international research prize to reward the most influential research paper on Wikimedia projects and free knowledge projects in general.
Main objectives :
- support/encourage research teams working on Wikipedia and free knowledge
- popularize scientific research on Wikipedia and free knowledge
- promote the wikimedia movement and Wikimédia France
- show that a scientific award can be debated and awarded on a wiki
[edit] Key personnel
- Rémi Bachelet, Wikimedia France board member, assistant professor at Ecole Centrale de Lille
- Carol Ann O’Hare, Wikimedia France staff, Head of Research and Education
[edit] Process
[edit] Award Event
November 2012 : online announcement of the winner.
[edit] Scientific papers eligibility
- anyone can submit a paper for consideration;
- papers published between 2003 and 2011;
- peer-reviewed;
- available in open access (can be a preprint);
- understandable by Wikimedia community (with accessible and accurate summary).
[edit] Jury’s roles and duty
- select 5 shortlisted papers;
- jury will rank papers on this shorlist and have 50% weight in the winner;
- jury members won’t be allowed to vote for papers they authored or co-authored.
[edit] Wikimedia community’s roles
- can submit scientific papers to the jury, according to eligibility criterias;
- community will vote on shortlisted papers and have 50% weight in the winner.
[edit] Goals and Wikimedia community’s benefits
- promote research work on Wikimedia projects;
- shortlisted papers will be accessible and understandable by the community ; they will be discussed and better known.
[edit] Timeline
1 June, 2012
- Public announcement of the prize and the jury to the community;
- Call for Wikimedia community participation : anyone can submit papers.
15 July, 2012
- Submisson deadline;
- Jury starts selecting 5 shortlisted papers;
27-29 August - WikiSym 2012
- 5 shortlisted papers announced;
1 September, 2012
- Opening of Wikimedia community process (publication of summaries of shortlisted paper and discussion).
1-15 October, 2012
- Wikimedia community and jury votes.
1 November, 2012
- Public announcement of the winner.
[edit] Funding
This project is organized by Wikimedia France and supported by WMF.
[edit] Contact
- Rémi Bachelet : remi.bachelet@wikimedia.fr
- Carol Ann O’Hare : carolann.ohare@wikimedia.fr
