Research:Wikimedia France Research Award - Meta

Use the link to access more information about submissions, important deadlines, and the jury for the award. The winner will be announced in November, 2012. “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 : [1] supporting/encouraging research teams working on Wikipedia and free knowledge [2] popularizing scientific research on Wikipedia and free knowledge [3] promoting the Wikimedia movement [4] showing that a scientific award can be debated and awarded on a wiki ... Scientific papers eligibility [1] anyone can submit a paper for consideration; [2] papers published between 2003 and 2011; [3] peer-reviewed; [4] available in open access (can be a preprint); [5] understandable by Wikimedia community (with accessible and accurate summary).”