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Archive of Wikimedia Research Fund

Fiscal year 2022-23

• Research Fund main page for 2022-23

Reviewers for FY 2022-23

• Pablo Aragon (Wikimedia Foundation)
• Akhil Arora (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
• Phoebe Ayers (MIT Libraries)
• Lionel Brossi (Artificial Intelligence and Society Hub at University of Chile [IASIC])
• Ana Castillo (University of Chile)
• Giovanni Colavizza (University of Amsterdam)
• Djellel Difallah (NYU)
• Rosta Farzan (University of Pittsburgh)
• Martin Gerlach (Wikimedia Foundation)
• Sohyeon Hwang (Northwestern University)
• Steve Jankowski (University of Amsterdam)
• Dariusz Jemielniak (Kozminski University)
• Isaac Johnson (Northwestern University)
• Jonathan Morgan (Wikimedia Foundation)
• Sneha Narayan (Carleton College)
• Miriam Redi (Wikimedia Foundation)
• Sage Ross (Wiki Education)
• Nicole Schwitter (University of Warwick)
• Aaron Shaw (Northwestern University)
• Elena Simperl (King's College London)
• Diego Sáez Trumper (Wikimedia Foundation)
• Nathan Teblunthuis (Northwestern University)
• Katherine Thornton (Yale University)
• Carla Toro (Universidad de Chile)
• Francesca Tripodi (UNC-Chapel Hill)
• Houcemeddine Turki (Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia)
• Linda Wang (Cornell University)
• Jisung Yoon (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University)
• Kai Zhu (Boston University)

Funded proposals in 2022-23

• Programs/Wikimedia Research Fund/Network perspectives on collective memory processes across the Arabic and English Wikipedias
• Programs/Wikimedia Research Fund/Implications of ChatGPT for knowledge integrity on Wikipedia
• Programs/Wikimedia Research Fund/Reducing the gender gap in AfD discussions: a semi-supervised learning approach
• Programs/Wikimedia Research Fund/Measuring the Gender Gap: Attribute-based Class Completeness Estimation
• Programs/Wikimedia Research Fund/Disinformation, Wikimedia and Alternative Content Moderation Models: Possibilities and Challenges (2022-23)
• Programs/Wikimedia Research Fund/A Whole New World - Integration of New Editors into the Serbian Wikipedia Community
• Programs/Wikimedia Research Fund/Understanding how Editors Use Machine Translation in Wikipedia: A Case Study in African Languages
• Programs/Wikimedia Research Fund/Dashboards to understand the organization of social memory about Chileans in Wikipedia. Politicians, scientists, artists, and sportspersons since the 19th century
• Programs/Wikimedia Research Fund/Reliable sources and public policy issues: understanding multisector organisations as sources on Wikipedia and Wikidata
• Programs/Wikimedia Research Fund/Codifying Digital Behavior Around the World: A Socio-Legal Study of the Wikimedia Universal Code of Conduct

Application process

The application on EasyChair asks for the following information:

• The name, email address, and Wikimedia username (if applicable) of all applicants.
• Names/usernames, roles (with regards to this proposal), institutional affiliations, countries of residence for all other personnel included in the project, including volunteers and advisors. (Optional)
• Proposal title.
• Description of the proposed project, including aims and approach (maximum 2500 characters).
• Approximate amount requested in U.S. dollars.
• Budget description (maximum 500 characters).
• Impact and relevance of the work to Wikimedia projects, including the degree to which the research will address the 2030 Wikimedia Strategic Direction and / or support the work of Wikimedia user groups, affiliates, and developer communities (maximum 750 characters).
• Plans for dissemination (maximum 500 characters).
• Prior contributions to related academic and / or research projects and / or the Wikimedia and free culture communities. If none, then an explanation of planned contributions (maximum 750 characters).

Fiscal year 2021-22

• Review the Research Fund main page for 2021-22

Reviewers for FY 2021-22

• Phoebe Ayers (MIT)
• Pablo Aragon (The Wikimedia Foundation)
• Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia (University of South Florida)
• Giovanni Colavizza (University of Amsterdam)
• Rosta Farzan (University of Pittsburgh)
• Heather Ford (University of Technology Sydney)
• Martin Gerlach (The Wikimedia Foundation)
• Dariusz Jemielniak (Kozminski University)
• Isaac Johnson (The Wikimedia Foundation)
• Piotr Konieczny (Hanyang University)
• Jonathan T. Morgan (CrowdStrike)
• Sneha Narayan (Carleton College)
• Miriam Redi (The Wikimedia Foundation)
• Diego Sáez Trumper (The Wikimedia Foundation)
• Nathan TeBlunthuis (University of Washington)
• Francesca Bolla Tripodi (University of North Carolina)
• Denny Vrandecic (The Wikimedia Foundation)

Funded proposals in 2021-22

• Programs/Wikimedia Research Fund/Slow Editing towards Equity
• Programs/Wikimedia Research Fund/Social and Language Influence in Wikipedia Articles for Deletion Debates
• Programs/Wikimedia Research Fund/Wikidata Gender Diversity (WiGeDi)
• Programs/Wikimedia Research Fund/Adapting Wikidata to support clinical practice using Data Science, Semantic Web and Machine Learning
• Programs/Wikimedia Research Fund/From the media to Wikipedia: the relationship between Chilean media news and malicious edits made in the virtual encyclopedia during the Social Outbreak of Chile in 2019.
• Programs/Wikimedia Research Fund/Can Machine Translation Improve Knowledge Equity
• Programs/Wikimedia Research Fund/Using Wikipedia for educational purposes in Estonia: The students′ and teachers′ perspective
• Programs/Wikimedia Research Fund/Grounding NPOV pillar in post-censored information ecology