[Wiki-research-l] Re: The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations

[Kinneret Gordon]

Hello everyone,

This is a friendly reminder to submit your nominations for the WMF Research
Award of the Year by* April 18, 2024* through
https://openreview.net/group?id=wikimediafoundation.org/Wikimedia/2023/RAY=%5BHomepage%5D(%2F)#tab-your-consoles
.
More information on the award and nomination process can be found in the
email below.

Best,
Kinneret

On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 6:52 PM Kinneret Gordon 
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> We invite you to nominate one or more scholarly research publications to
> be considered for the Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year.
> Learn more below.
>
>
> =Purpose of the award=
>
>
> Recognize recent research on or about the Wikimedia projects or recent
> research that is of importance to the Wikimedia projects. Recognize the
> researchers behind the research.
>
>
> You can learn more about previous winners at
> https://research.wikimedia.org/awards.html.
>
>
> =Eligibility criteria=
>
>
> Your nomination must meet the following criteria:
>
>
> * The research must be on, about, using data from, and/or of importance to
> Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia
> projects.
>
>
> * The publication must be available in English.
>
>
> * The research must have been published between January 1, 2023 and
> December 31, 2023.
>
>
> =Nomination process=
>
>
> Submit your nominations by April 18, 2024 through 
> https://openreview.net/group?id=wikimedia
> foundation.org/Wikimedia/2023/RAY.
> 
> We will ask you to provide the following information in your nomination:
>
>
> * Title of the manuscript
>
> * A copy of the manuscript you are nominating
>
> * A summary of the research and a clear justification for why the work
> merits the award (in 350 words or fewer in English).
>
>
> Note that self-nominations and nominations of others' work are both
> welcome.
>
>
> ==Winner(s)==
>
>
> The winner(s) will be announced in a ceremony as part of Wiki Workshop
> 2024, scheduled to take place virtually on June 20, 2024.
>
>
> If you have any questions, please email kgordon(a)wikimedia.org
>
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Kinneret, on behalf of the WMF RAY organizing team
>
> --
>
> Kinneret Gordon
>
> Lead Research Community Officer
>
> Wikimedia Foundation 
>
>
>
>
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[Wiki-research-l] Re: The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations

[Emily Lescak]

Hi all,

This is a friendly reminder that today is the last day that we will accept
nominations for this year's WMF-RAY. Thanks to those of you who have
submitted.

Warm regards,

Emily

On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 11:31 AM Emily Lescak  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We invite you to nominate one or more scholarly research publications
> to be considered for the Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the
> Year. Learn more below.
>
> =Purpose of the award=
> Recognize recent research on or about the Wikimedia projects or recent
> research that is of importance to the Wikimedia projects. Recognize
> the researchers behind the research.
>
> You can learn more about previous winners at
> https://research.wikimedia.org/awards.html.
>
> =Eligibility criteria=
> Your nomination must meet the following criteria:
>
> * The research must be on, about, using data from, and/or of
> importance to Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons or
> other Wikimedia projects.
>
> * The publication must be available in English.
>
> * The research must have been published between January 1, 2022 and
> December 31, 2022.
>
> =Nomination process=
> Submit your nominations by February 6, 2023 through
> https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wmfray2022. We will ask you
> to provide the following information in your nomination:
>
> * Title of the manuscript
> * A copy of the manuscript you are nominating
> * A summary of the research and a clear justification for why the work
> merits the award (in 350 words or fewer in English).
>
> Note that self-nominations and nominations of others' work are both
> welcome.
>
> ==Winner(s)==
> The winner(s) will be announced in a ceremony as part of Wiki Workshop
> 2023.
>
> If you have any questions, please contact us at
> wmf-ray-2...@easychair.org.
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Emily Lescak, on behalf of Benjamin Mako Hill (University of Washington)
> and Leila Zia (Wikimedia Foundation)
>
> --
> Emily Lescak (she / her)
> Senior Research Community Officer
> The Wikimedia Foundation
>
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[Wiki-research-l] Re: The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations

[Leila Zia]

A quick reminder that if you're interested in submitting nominations
for the WMF Research Award of the Year 2021, the deadline to do so is
February 7. More information below.

Thanks to those of you who have already submitted your nominations. :)

Best,
Leila, on behalf of Mako + Leila

On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 11:48 AM Leila Zia  wrote:
>
> [Apologies for cross-posting.]
>
> Hi all,
>
> We invite you to nominate one or more scholarly research publications
> to be considered for the Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the
> Year. Learn more below.
>
> =Purpose of the award=
> Recognize recent research on or about the Wikimedia projects or recent
> research that is of importance to the Wikimedia projects. Recognize
> the researchers behind the research.
>
> You can learn more about 2021's winners at
> https://research.wikimedia.org/awards.html .
>
> =Eligibility criteria=
> Your nomination must meet the following criteria:
>
> * The research must be on, about, using data from, and/or of
> importance to Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons or
> other Wikimedia projects.
>
> * The publication must be available in English.
>
> * The research must have been published between January 1, 2021 and
> December 31, 2021.
>
> =Nomination process=
> Submit your nominations by 2022-02-07 through
> https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wmfray2021 . We will ask you
> to provide the following information in your nomination:
>
> * Title of the manuscript
> * A copy of the manuscript you are nominating
> * A summary of the research and a clear justification for why the work
> merits the award (in 350 words or fewer in English).
>
> Note that self-nominations and nominations of others' work are both welcome.
>
> ==Winner(s)==
> The winner(s) will be announced in a ceremony as part of Wiki Workshop
> 2022: https://wikiworkshop.org/2022/ .
>
> If you have any questions, please contact us at
> wmf-ray-2...@easychair.org or here.
>
> Best,
> Benjamin Mako Hill (University of Washington)
> Leila Zia (Wikimedia Foundation)
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[Wiki-research-l] Re: The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations

[Samuel Klein]

My post was sharded to just the wikidata list, copying the others :)

On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 12:59 PM Patricio Lorente <
patricio.lore...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you, SJ. I fully agree with your recommendations.
>
> El jue, 13 ene 2022 a las 14:55, Samuel Klein ()
> escribió:
>
>> Kay, bless your heart.
>> Galder, Gereon, Xavi: I would be *particularly* interested in research
>> in other languages, since it's harder for me to run across that in my
>> regular feeds. (that may also be true for some of the reviewers :) but
>> they're also lang and time limited)
>>
>> Recommendation that might conceivably be implemented for this cycle:
>>  -- Update "can submit" to "encouraged to submit" in any languages
>>  -- If in a language other than {core langs} <-- which may be only
>> English this year, ask submitters to recommend a reviewer who can share a
>> review of the work in English
>>  -- To Andy's point, confirm the license of the research is one that is
>> open (so that it can be independently translated)
>>  -- Have a two stage award: the first stage, based on a quick review for
>> significance and interest, identifies finalists which are, if not already
>> in one of the {core langs}, translated into one of them. (at least in
>> abstract + summary; we facilitate this translation by supporting /
>> sponsoring community translation; it's a universal benefit for researchers
>> around the world)
>>  -- Second stage is as currently imagined: review of finalist papers in
>> {core langs}.
>>
>> <3.  SJ
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 10:27 PM KAY WOODING via Wikidata <
>> wikid...@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>>  I SPEAK ENGLISH  THABKS I APPRECIATE IT  JESUS LOVES YIU I LOVE YOU GOD
>>> BLESS YOU  HAVE A BLESSED DAY
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, January 12, 2022, 09:55:21 PM EST, Leila Zia <
>>> l...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> We gave the option of accepting nominations in more languages some
>>> more thought. I want to be very honest: I don't have a good solution
>>> to accommodate more languages in this cycle. We considered the option
>>> of allowing/encouraging nominations in other languages, and not doing
>>> the broader search we do in English in those languages. However, even
>>> this option is not really guaranteed to work because we consider
>>> "scholarly publications" which can be papers of a few pages or books
>>> that can be hundreds of pages. We cannot guarantee that we can
>>> translate the scholarly publication (independent of its length)
>>> in-time for the review.
>>>
>>> Given the above, my suggestion to you is that if you know of a
>>> scholarly publication that is in another language than English and you
>>> think we should consider it, still nominate it. We will consider it,
>>> even if I can't guarantee that we review it.
>>>
>>> I'm sorry that I am not able to offer a better solution for this
>>> cycle. We will continue thinking about this point for the future
>>> cycles.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Leila
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 12:46 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
>>>  wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Hi Leila,
>>> > I have read it, that's why I'm confused.
>>> > 
>>> > From: Leila Zia 
>>> > Sent: Monday, January 10, 2022 9:40 PM
>>> > To: Wikimedia Mailing List 
>>> > Cc: wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org <
>>> wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org>; Discussion list for the Wikidata
>>> project. 
>>> > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wiki-research-l] Re: The Wikimedia
>>> Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations
>>> >
>>> > Hi Galder,
>>> >
>>> > Please see below.
>>> >
>>> > On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 12:26 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
>>> >  wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > Thanks, Leila, for answering the question raised.
>>> >
>>> > Anytime.
>>> >
>>> > > I'm a bit confused with this, I supposed that the Wikimedia
>>> Foundation Research Award was an initiative from the Research team of the
>>> WMF (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research), but I read in
>>> your answer that "WikiResearch is primarily in English and about research
>>> published in English". I understand that the main working language of the
>>> WMF is English, as this mailing list is, but I would assume that an Award
>>> promoted by the WMF should be multilingual.
>>> >
>>> > Sorry. Let me clarify. What I was referring to when I used
>>> > WikiResearch in my email was the WikiResearch twitter account:
>>> > https://twitter.com/WikiResearch . I did not intend to refer to the
>>> > WMF Research team or Wikimedia Research community. And to repeat: this
>>> > is one source we use to find research done on the Wikimedia projects.
>>> > There are other sources as I mentioned in my response.
>>> >
>>> > > Me, as a Basque Wikimedians User Group member, I promote Wikimedia
>>> activities in Basque language, because that is our goal. But the WMF is not
>>> the English Wikimedians User Group, as far as I understand. Our designated
>>> lingua franca may be English, but the WMF can't 

[Wiki-research-l] Re: The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations

[Leila Zia]

Hi all, Thank you for your feedback. I take your comments as a sign of
genuine care and I'm happy to engage and learn with you how we can do
better. (Note: I'm responding to all lists, though some of the
feedback has been sent only to wikimedia-l.)

* Galder, Gereon, Xavier, Gnangarra, and Andy: thank you for your feedback.

* Andy, I'll respond to your comment first. We do not require the work
to be published under a free license for us to consider it for the
award. However, if the work is shortlisted, we reach out to the
authors, tell them that it's shortlisted, and it can be considered for
the award if the work is at least made publicly available. At that
point, we also encourage the authors to publish under a free license
and share with them a few ways they may be able to (even if the work
is published somewhere already with restrictions). The issue of
licenses is on top of our mind and we actively look for ways to push
for more Wikimedia research work to be published under free licenses.

* I am going to share with you some of my thoughts, and a possible
improvement we can make in the process.

** Let's try to keep things simple to be able to improve things
together. This is not a case of "WMF did x". The idea of the award was
created in the Research team, and both last year and this year, we've
been grateful to have the support of researchers outside of WMF for
it. (Aaron Shaw (Northwestern University), and Benjamin Mako Hill (U.
of Washington)). I take full responsibility for the execution of the
award and I can take your feedback and see where we can improve the
process. :)

** In order to be able to improve the process, I should share more
details about how we do the search for the publications first. We have
multiple sources for searching for research published in a given year:
1. The nomination process we shared on this thread.
2. Research publications shared in WikiResearch twitter account.
3. External research search engines and repositories for different
fields: we use scholar.google.com, dblp.org and more.

To give you a sense of the distribution of scholarly publications we
identified last year from each of the above sources: 11 nominations
and 170+ research publications through the twitter account and
external searches. The award chairs (2 people; this year it is going
to be Mako and I) reviewed all identified publications. We discussed
every publication at varying depth depending on the result of our
initial reviews.

** Knowing the process, there are at least a few ways I think the
process must be improved. I'm sure now that you see more you can
critique even more. :) I proactively share with you some of them here:
::* I need to have an easychair account to nominate. That can/must
change (but to what? we want these nominations to be private, and we
need a way to be able to process them efficiently because we're only 2
people. We are considering openreview.net for the future years because
they're open source; but they still have other limitations. For this
year, easychair it is.).
::* We need more people on the committee: both for workload sharing,
and also including more perspectives. (This is /a lot/ to ask of
researchers. I'm grateful that Mako and Aaron have supported us in the
past.)
::* We need other non-English sources to source community research.
(WikiResearch is primarily in English and about research published in
English.)
::* The shared language of reviewers is assumed to be English. If we
are going to at scale consider other languages, then we need a way
that this group of people can converse on academic topics with one
another without having to share a language.

** I also understand the reality of the resources available to me and
our team. I understand the importance of working on multiple fronts
with regards to the research community (Wikimedia Research Funds, Wiki
Workshop, global research competitions, research showcases, monthly
office hours, talks and presentations, formal collaborations, and
more). I believe in the importance of motivation (and we have seen a
very good momentum around the award idea from last year's run). We
need to do many things, with very limited resources; Our values and
ideals are important and we have to attempt to hold them all as we
make decisions. In practice, sometimes we can't meet all the ambitions
we have. We need to make trade-offs. What is important is to be aware,
to listen, to try to improve, and to be honest.

I will leave you with the above and I commit to talk with Mako to
consider ways to open up the process for more languages to be included
(in 2021 or in 2022+; I can't promise changes for the 2021 process.).
One of us will write back here with what we decide to do.

Thanks,
Leila

On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 5:42 AM Andy Mabbett  wrote:
>
> On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 at 19:48, Leila Zia  wrote:
>
> > =Eligibility criteria=
>
> > * The publication must be available in English.
>
> I echo others' concerns about this.
>
> I'm equally 

[Wiki-research-l] Re: The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations

[Andy Mabbett]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 at 19:48, Leila Zia  wrote:

> =Eligibility criteria=

> * The publication must be available in English.

I echo others' concerns about this.

I'm equally concerned that, while WMF regard being in English as
essential for one of their awards, they do not regard the use of an
open licence as a requirement.

-- 
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
https://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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