Free Knowledge Award was an award presented by Wikimedia RU, a Russian nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting encyclopedic knowledge. 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.
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.
Winners №YearsWinners12014Ivan Zassoursky Internet Users Association Ushinsky State Pedagogical Library Association of Honorary Citizens, Mentors and Talented Youth22015CyberLeninka Homeland heroes Business Journal32016Oral History (foundation) National Electronic Library Yuri Metelkin42017Old Books Project Клопс.Ru Andrei Galinichev and Dmitry Poslavsky52018Digital Herbarium of Moscow University Russian OpenStreetMap community Kirill Vasiliev62019Free webinars "Direct-Academy" platform Aleksey Ryabinin Nekrasov Central Library72020News agency Bashinform Youth movement Selet Leonid Shafirov82021Vadim Riabitsev and Nina Sadykova Alexei Sidelnikov and Mikhail Trenikhin Dmitry Lyovochkin Atlas of New Professions project team92022Olesya Nosova Anatoly Gulyaev and Evgeny Raevsky Andrei Kuznetsov2023It was not conducted
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