(some people ask me to inform this mailing list as well).......
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Catrin Schoneville <[email protected]> Date: 2012/7/4 Subject: Zedler Prize for Free Knowledge To: Communications Committee <[email protected]> Hello everybody, this past Sunday, 1 July, Wikimedia Deutschland awarded the first German prize for free knowledge achievements. The award is called Zedler-Preis für Freies Wissen (Zedler Prize for Free Knowledge). It's named after Johann Heinrich Zedler and his 18th century encyclopedia[1], which was composed by various anonymous authors. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? The Zedler Prize was awarded in three categories: Wikipedia article of the year, community project of the year, external project of the year. There was an accompanying award show, hosted by our CEO Pavel Richter at a venue in Berlin. The ceremony finished off the scientifc conference Wikipedia Academy[2]. The award is about honoring extraordinary achievements in Wikipedia and beyond. Including a category for external free knowledge projects underlines Wikimedia Deutschland's vision of the awards: The Zedler Prize is all about creating awareness for the volunteer efforts behind Wikipedia, demonstrating two things: First, anybody can contribute to sharing free knowledge, be it in Wikipedia or elsewhere. Secondly, amazing things may result from making a first step. We hope to build on this initial experience and establish the award. Here are the winners, picked by three separate volunteer jurys (community, journalists, researchers): Wikipedia Article of the Year http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuklearkatastrophe_von_Fukushima (English article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster) Community Project of the Year http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:%C3%96sterreich/Denkmallisten (Portal devoted to listing and documenting every monument in Austria. Yes, every monument! The group of volunteers was reached out to the Austrian Federal Monuments Office[3] with their project. The collaboration eventually led to an official representer of the office attending the award show and thanking the Wikipedians for their fantastic work.) External Project of the Year http://de.vroniplag.wikia.com/wiki/Home (Vroniplag is a Wikia-based open platform for detecting plagiarism in scientific work. The project rose to prominence in 2011 when volunteers proved the then-German Minister of Defence to have plagiarized most of his PHD thesis.) The Juries were free to award special recognition among the runners-up. All in all there were 17 final nominees[4]. The winners of the special recognitions are: The Wikipedia article "Pizzakarton" (Pizza box)[5] and a user initiative that expresses gratitude to other users for their hard Wikipedia work by leaving a thank you note and image of a flower on talk pages. The latter is called "The Flower of the Week"[6]. We counted an audience of approx. 150 people. WMDE released a press statement in time with live twitter news about the winners. Press coverage includes a German public radio broadcaster (national), regional and national newspapers. There also was substantial Austrian coverage, due to the Austrian Wikipedia portal winning. Short list in German: http://wikimedia.de/wiki/Presse [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grosses_vollst%C3%A4ndiges_Universal-Lexicon [2] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/06/26/wikimedia-research-newsletter-june-2012/#.22Wikipedia_Academy.22_preview [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesdenkmalamt [4] http://wikimedia.de/wiki/Pressemitteilungen/PM_6_12_Zedler [5] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzakarton [6] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Ephraim33/Blume_der_Woche p.s. sorry for the long version - it is so rare for me to post something that I thought its ok for this time ;) -- Mit besten Grüßen Catrin Schoneville Pressesprecherin ------------------------------------- Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstraße 72 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 260 http://wikimedia.de <http://www.wikimedia.de/> Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch freien Zugang zu der Gesamtheit des Wissens der Menschheit hat. Helfen Sie uns dabei! *Helfen Sie mit, dass WIKIPEDIA von der UNESCO als erstes digitales Weltkulturerbe anerkannt wird. Unterzeichnen Sie die Online-Petition:* http://wikipedia.de/wke/Main_Page?setlang=de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
