From: Dario Taraborelli
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Date: October 19, 2011 12:13:23 PM PDT
To: The Wikimedia Foundation Research Committee mailing list
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Cc: Tilman Bayer <tbayer(a)wikimedia.org>rg>, Jay Walsh <jwalsh(a)wikimedia.org>
Subject: Wikimedia France Research Award
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All,
Remi and Carol-Ann from Wikimedia France (cc'ed) are organizing a research award for
Wikimedia research in 2012. They would love to have input from RCom (etherpad link at the
bottom). I copy also the communication people at WMF as they may have useful suggestions.
Dario
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Hello Everyone, Remi B (Board members) and Carol-Ann (education/research officer) of
Wikimedia France here
WMFr wants to initiate an international research award on Wikipedia/free knowledge next
year. Our goal is to reward and promote seminal research work on Wikimedia/free knowledge
projects.
The idea started a while ago at WMFr, but we bootstrapped it on earnest only after we
hired a research officer and it’s been in advanced discussion for weeks (after we outlined
the project we had major intakes from Dario and our board). Now before any public launch,
we would like to run the ideas with you, since this is definitely your area of expertise.
So we would like to have your intake on this idea, particularly regarding two questions
1/the award name and 2/ the potential jury members.
We are not members of this mailing (and thanks to Dario for forwarding this) so please
refer to this etherpad for details and discussing ideas:
http://goo.gl/dAUp8
See you there !