Free Knowledge Award is an award presented by Wikimedia RU, a russian nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting encyclopedic knowledge.[1] The prize is awarded to individuals or organizations who are not active participants in Wikimedia Foundation projects, but who have made a notable contribution to the goals of the Wikimedia movement: the dissemination of free knowledge. It has been awarded annually since 2014.[2]
The Free Knowledge Award winners are determined in two stages. First, the wiki community nominates candidates and votes, which results in a short list. From this list, Wikimedia RU members select 3-4 winners, taking into account the arguments presented. The winners are announced directly at the ceremony.
№ | Years | Winners | |
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1 | 2014 | Ivan Zassoursky Internet Users Association[3] Ushinsky State Pedagogical Library Association of Honorary Citizens, Mentors and Talented Youth< | --Q71051237--> |
2 | 2015 | CyberLeninka[4] Homeland heroes[5] Business Journal | |
3 | 2016 | Oral History (foundation)[6] National Electronic Library[7] Yuri Metelkin | |
4 | 2017 | Old Books Project Клопс.Ru Andrei Galinichev and Dmitry Poslavsky | |
5 | 2018 | Digital Herbarium of Moscow University[8] Russian OpenStreetMap community[9] Kirill Vasiliev | |
6 | 2019 | Free webinars "Direct-Academy" platform Aleksey Ryabinin Nekrasov Central Library | |
7 | 2020 | News agency Bashinform Youth movement Selet[10] Leonid Shafirov[11] | |
8 | 2021 | Vadim Riabitsev and Nina Sadykova Alexei Sidelnikov and Mikhail Trenikhin< | --Q113622858-->[12] Dmitry Lyovochkin Atlas of New Professions project team |
9 | 2022 | Olesya Nosova[13] Anatoly Gulyaev and Evgeny Raevsky< | --Q105553924-->[14] Andrei Kuznetsov |
2023 | It was not conducted | ||