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

2024-03-14 Thread Kinneret Gordon
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] The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations

2022-12-09 Thread Emily Lescak
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] The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations

2022-01-07 Thread Leila Zia
[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] The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations

2021-03-08 Thread Leila Zia
Hi all,

This email contains information about a new award that we're
introducing as well as instructions about how you can nominate
scholarly research publications for the award.

=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.

=Call for Nominations=
We invite you to submit nominations for the Wikimedia Foundation
Research Award of the year, which will be handed out at Wiki Workshop
2021 [1].

==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, Wikimedia Commons or other
Wikimedia projects [2].

* The publication must be available in English.

* The research must have been published between January 1, 2020 to
December 31, 2020.

==Selection criteria==
The award committee [3] will assess nominations based on
methodological excellence, quality of execution, quality of
presentation, reproducibility, ethical considerations, potential
impact on the Wikimedia projects or the Wikimedia research.

==Nomination process==
If you are interested to nominate a scholarly research publication,
please do so no later than 2021-03-22 by uploading it to Easychair via
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wmfray2020 . 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.

If you have any questions, please contact wmf-ray-2...@easychair.org.

Best,
Leila Zia, on behalf of the Selection Committee of the Wikimedia
Foundation Research Award of the Year


[1] https://wikiworkshop.org/2021/
[2] https://wikimediafoundation.org/our-work/wikimedia-projects/
[3] comprised of myself, Benjamin Mako Hill (University of Washington)
and Aaron Shaw (Northwestern University) as of now. More people may be
added depending on the diversity of the nominations we receive and as
expertise are required.


--
Leila Zia
Head of Research
Wikimedia Foundation

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