
Free Knowledge Award was an award presented by Wikimedia RU, a Russian nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting encyclopedic knowledge.[1] The prize was 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 were determined in two stages. First, the wiki community nominated candidates and voted, which resulted in a short list. From this list, Wikimedia RU members selected 3-4 winners, taking into account the arguments presented. The winners were announced directly at the ceremony.
| № | Years | Winners |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2014 | Ivan Zassoursky Internet Users Association[3] Ushinsky State Pedagogical Library Association of Honorary Citizens, Mentors and Talented Youth[2] |
| 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[2] Клопс.Ru Andrei Galinichev and Dmitry Poslavsky[2] |
| 5 | 2018 | Digital Herbarium of Moscow University[8] Russian OpenStreetMap community[9] Kirill Vasiliev |
| 6 | 2019 | Free webinars "Direct-Academy" platform Aleksey RyabininNekrasov 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[12] Dmitry Lyovochkin Atlas of New Professions project team |
| 9 | 2022 | Olesya Nosova[13] Anatoly Gulyaev and Evgeny Raevsky[14] Andrei Kuznetsov |
| 2023 | It was not conducted |
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