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Description

This is the parent task for all tasks related to the planning and execution of the Research Award of the Year for 2025.

Work expected to take place in FY24-25 Q3+Q4.

Details

Due Date
Jul 8 2025, 12:00 AM
Other Assignee
mako

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Event Timeline

leila triaged this task as Medium priority.Nov 27 2024, 11:16 PM
leila updated Other Assignee, added: mako.
leila moved this task from Backlog to Epics on the Research board.

Weekly update: assigned reviews. First pass of reviews started.

We're doing the final passes and expect to reach out to the winner(s) in the coming days.

Update: We decided on the winning papers and notified the authors.

What's remaining of this task is:

  • Hosting the award ceremony (Mako will do this as part of Wiki Workshop on May 22)
  • (ideal and optional) writing a diff post about the winning papers (Leila/Mako)
  • Sending out the certificates and getting the info for the physical awards (Kinneret, post Wiki Workshop)
  • Mailing the physical award and certificate (if requested) (Kinneret will work on this post the ceremony)

Weekly update:

  • Kinneret has prepared a blurb for research.wikimedia.org which is with Mako and I for review.

Weekly update:

  • I sent out the physical awards on Friday (will request reimbursement next).
  • Kinneret has prepared a blurb for the public page that is remaining to be reviewed. Assigning a deadline to this task and moving it to in-progress.
leila set Due Date to Jul 8 2025, 12:00 AM.Jul 1 2025, 1:15 AM
leila moved this task from FY2024-25-Research-April-June to In Progress on the Research board.
leila edited projects, added: Research; removed: Research (FY2024-25-Research-April-June).
Miriam subscribed.

Closing this task as the blurb has been published. Thank you!