Grants:资助项目/维基媒体研究和技术基金/维基媒体研究基金
對象？
Groups, individuals or organisations. Established Wikimedia researchers or established researchers who want to become Wikimedia researchers.
内容？
Research Proposals (Type 1), Extended Research Proposals (Type 2), and Event and Community-Building Proposals (Type 3).
何時？
Up to 12 months (Type 1 and 3) and up to 24 months (Type 2). Proposed work can start as early as July 1, 2025 and must end no later than the end of grant period.
多少？
Requests must be over 2,000 USD. The maximum request is 50,000 USD (Type 1 and 3) and 150,000 USD (Type 2) (with a maximum of 75,000 USD per year).
We have made some changes to the Research Fund for the 2025 round. Please read the information below carefully to determine fit and prepare your application.
Who we fund
The Research Fund supports individuals, groups, and organizations with expertise and interest in conducting research on or about Wikimedia projects. We encourage submissions from across research disciplines, including but not limited to the humanities, social sciences, computer science and engineering, education, and law.
Applicants should be established Wikimedia researchers (i.e., people with a history of conducting research related to Wikimedia projects) or established researchers who want to become Wikimedia researchers. We will fund proposals primarily based on our assessment of whether a grant will result in high-quality and high-impact scholarship. We will prioritize proposals from applicants who have limited access to research funding, are in regions of the world where the Wikimedia research community has less representation, have experience conducting research in collaboration with Wikimedia communities, and/or are proposing work that has the potential for direct, positive impact on either the global or local Wikimedia communities.
補助內容 
For the 2025 round, we welcome three types of submissions.
Type 1: Research Proposals
We expect to fund 4-10 grants to support basic or applied research projects related to Wikimedia projects. We expect that these projects will include the following types of research:
- The production of research products (especially peer-reviewed scholarly publications) that can:
- Contribute to generalizable knowledge that has the potential to improve and expand our understanding of the Wikimedia projects and their impact;
- Identify and/or evaluate novel technical and socio-technical solutions that can enhance the technology or policy in support of the Wikimedia projects;
- Inform important social or policy decisions that organized groups within the Wikimedia communities want to make.
- The development of datasets of importance for Wikimedia communities (including but not limited to Wikimedia research communities).
We are particularly interested in proposals that advance the Wikimedia Movement towards the 2030 strategic direction, the Multigenerational strategy, and/or seek to provide evidence of causal effects.
Our funds are limited and we want to focus the funds on the most important and unaddressed research gaps on the Wikimedia projects that existing Movement organizations and initiatives are less likely to tackle. To this end, we will not fund:
- Research proposals to develop a product or technology in support of the Wikimedia projects;
- Research proposals that involve conducting a study that is identical or similar to a study previously conducted in one language edition of Wikipedia in another, unless there is a strong reason to believe the result will differ.
Funding Amount: Funding of between 2,000-50,000 USD per proposal.
Time Period: Work should be conducted for up to 1 year (12 months).
Type 2: Extended Research Proposals
We expect to fund up to two grants for extended research proposals. This proposal will have the same scope and goals as the “normal” research proposal described in the section above but will be higher in total funding amount and in the time period the work is carried out.
Funding Amount: Funding of up to 50,000-150,000 USD (over all years of the grant period with up to USD 75,000 per year) per proposal.
Time Period: Work should be conducted for up to 2 years (24 months). We will consider (re-)applications in the second year of these grants for a third year of funding to continue or extend work made during a potential third year.
Type 3: Event and Community-Building Proposals
We will fund up to 5 proposals by established members of the Wikimedia research community to organize events or conduct community-building projects to strengthen, expand, and diversify the community of researchers studying Wikimedia projects and increasing the Wikimedia research community’s collective impact.
Funding Amount: Funding of up to 50,000 USD per proposal.
Time Period: Work should be conducted for up to 1 year (12 months).
Other Types of Projects
For other Wikimedia Foundation funding options, please see: Wikimedia Foundation grant programs including the Wikimedia Community Fund.
資格標準 
- 個人、團體和組織均可申請。任何個人最多同時獲得三份公開補助，包括快速補助在內。團體和組織則最多同時獲得五份公開補助。
- 申請金額最低2,000美元，上限50,000美元。
- 補助期限最長為12個月。
- 受補助人必須同意繳交報告、簽署差旅補助協議，並提供維基媒體基金會處理補助的必要資訊。 此處可閱讀更多資格要求
- 申請和報告可接受英語或西班牙語。
- 有意申請者如具有下列任一情事，不應提出申請：
- Potential applicants must meet all WMF General Eligibility requirements listed at Legal and conduct requirements.
申請表格與指引 
If you are submitting a proposal for a Research Proposal or an Extended Research Proposal, please use research-proposal-template to submit your application. Please read the template document carefully before preparing your final submission as it contains important instructions and the link to the budget template.
If you are submitting a proposal for an Event and Community-Building, please use event-and-community-building-template.
Similar to previous years, we will use OpenReview for application submissions. The submission form will open by Mar 20, 2025 and will be updated here. Please make sure to set up your account if you don’t have one yet.
補助方式 
申請流程
Applicants submit proposals in response to the call for Research Fund Proposals. Proposals will be subject to an initial review by the fund chairs for conformance to eligibility criteria and potential for funding. All proposals that are considered for further review will be made publicly available to allow Wikimedia community members, Wikimedia affiliates, and Regional Fund Committees to provide optional feedback. These proposals will be subject to a technical review by the Research Fund chairs and third-party experts.
審核流程
我們採用單盲審查程序，申請人的身份是已知的，但研究基金委員會的審查員是匿名的。研究基金委員會成員將自行聲明他們對每項提案的專業知識，並向委員會主席披露任何潛在的利益衝突。每項提案將至少接受三名委員審查，並且可以根據要求從七個維基媒體區域基金委員會中的一或多位委員會獲得意見。每個提案還可以通過元維基上的結構化反饋過程，獲得維基媒體志願者社群的意見。每份提案都將收到委員會主席的綜合評分和綜合審查。提案會經由審查員和委員會主席討論，並考量到區域基金委員會和志願者社群的意見。再由研究委員會主席做出最終決定。
評選標準
我們根據以下標準評估提案：
- Research. The proposed work's primary focus must be to conduct research designed to contribute to generalizable knowledge or research community building. Because they are not focused on generalizable knowledge, research efforts on understanding the specific needs of an organization or community will not be considered. Note that proposals with a primary focus on outreach, technology development/deployment, institutional support, other non-research activities, or research focused on specific organizations are funded through other funds offered by the Wikimedia Foundation. (This criterion is not applicable to Events and Community-Building Proposals.)
- 關聯。 研究必須在和維基媒體計劃相關，或對維基媒體計劃具有重要意義。
- 影響。我們會優先考慮旨在使維基媒體社群能夠根據所進行的研究，做出具重大影響力決定或採取行動的提案。我們將特別考慮直接針對「維基媒體2030」策略方向（包括但不限於 運動建議）的提案，以及嘗試使用維基百科上不常見的語言來回答問題的提案。
- 申請人及其相應機構的地理位置。因為我們的目的是增加為維基媒體專案做出貢獻的研究人員的地域多樣性，所以鼓勵來自中南美洲、非洲、東歐和亞洲的提案，也會給予這些提案特殊考量。
- 社群。我們的目標是資助能協助維基媒體社群邁向下一步的工作。我們將優先考慮支持由維基媒體用戶組、附屬機構和開發者社群支援或共事的提案。我們鼓勵申請者在您的團隊中納入一至多名這些社群的成員，並查閱2019、2020和2021的社群願望清單，以了解這些群體提出的想法和問題。
- 對相關學術領域和／或研究項目，和／或維基媒體和自由文化社群的先前貢獻。我們會審查申請人自行報告的貢獻，以更深入地了解申請人的興趣、技能和能力。
預算
Please prepare your budget carefully using the budget-template which is prepopulated with sample expense details. Note that there are two sheets in the template – one for research proposals and one for events and community building activities. Please complete the relevant sheet based on your application.
Because the WMF mission is focused on education, budgets should not include faculty teaching “buyouts”—i.e., any budgeting for salary or effort that will result in a reduction of teaching. If the research project being proposed is absolutely not possible without a buyout, please provide context in your budget request and an exception will be considered by the Research Fund Committee.
Our overall budget for Research Funds is limited. We ask you to request funds only for the amount that you need to make your proposed research a reality and do not aim to necessarily reach the limit of the category you are submitting for. As a rule of thumb: the higher the budget you ask, the higher our expectation for your proposal to be comprehensive and impactful and the budget to be detailed. Higher budget generally translates to more scrutiny towards your application for us to assure we are distributing the funds in the best way we can.
Final grant amounts are up to the discretion of the Research Fund Committee, who may reach out to finalists to ask for a reduced budget and a proportionally reduced scope of work. For Type 1 research proposals and Type 3 event proposals, funds will be disbursed in one payment at the beginning of the funding period (as early as July 2025). For Type 2 extended proposals, funds will be disbursed in separate installments, as will be determined by the Research Fund Committee.
倫理
所有提案都應遵循研究倫理原則以及與人體試驗相關的規範和指南。我們鼓勵作者閱讀《門羅報告》（Menlo Report）獲得有關倫理原則的更多資訊、《Allman/Paxson IMC '07論文》 以獲得有關數據共享的倫理指南，以及《Sandvig et al. '14論文》中關於演算法審計倫理的內容。入圍者必須解決可能的道德爭議並在提案說明他們如何解決這些爭議。機構審查委員會的審查（如有需要）需在補助分配之前完成。
Conflict of interest policy
In reviewing proposals, we will apply ACM’s conflict of interest policy to all Research Fund applications.
研究產出
為了讓維基媒體志工社群、分支機構和基金會可操作和重複使用您的研究結果，您必須確保您的任何研究產出都符合WMF開放近用政策。我們鼓勵您將開放近用出版的成本納入預算中。
獲補助者應讓在MetaWiki:Research上創建專案頁面，逐月記錄工作進度。此外，他們也要以指定的模板完成最終財務和專案報告，並在未來的維基媒體研究活動以及其所研究社群的活動中，至少展示一次。
Important Dates 
2025年4月16日
Application submission deadline
2025年5月14日
Application notifications
All deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth.
辧公室對談時間 
We invite you to schedule 1:1 consultations with us to ask questions about the Research Fund program or the relevance of your proposed work. Schedule a session with Kinneret Gordon or schedule a session with Leila Zia. When scheduling your appointment, please provide a description of your proposed research topic or question.
We will also hold an open call to answer any questions people may have. Please join us on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, 17:15 – 18:00 UTC via Google Meet.
聯絡我們 
請將問題直接發送至 research_fund
wikimedia.org 。
組織委員會 
補助委員會主席
- Benjamin Mako Hill （華盛頓大學）
- Leila Zia （維基媒體基金會）
工作流程主席
- Kinneret Gordon (維基媒體基金會)
