Dear colleagues,
This is a request for your input and possible ideas (if any) regarding my management of the fallout from Jimmy's announcing myself as a 2018 Wikimedian of the Year.
Emails below are a copy of my ongoing consultations with Wikimedia Foundation staff and other Wikimedians I personally know, as well as a report on what's already brewing in my region of Russia after this unexpected outcome.
I would be grateful, if you can advise me on how to properly steer the enthusiasm of behalf of regional government, mass-media, NGOs, etc. which have just discovered about the possibility of participation in Wikimedia movement (think anything from U.S. is not getting much in-depth coverage in Russian by sources that regional public figures, NGOs, teachers or general regional journalists read) & are now placing great hopes on teaching whole of Tatarstan about how to Wiki & also engaging all Tatars globally (3/4 outside of Tatarstan, 1/5 outside of Russia).
regards, farhad
Updates: * Selet WikiSchool got presented to wider public @ the press-conference for Tatar-speaking journalists (July 31), at the poster session in the framework of the World Congress of Tatars Youth Forum (Aug.3), and later at a Tatar projects fair in the Downtown park of Kazan (Aug.5) * Contribution of those writing into Wikipedia in Tatar was recognized by choosing myself as one of the current year's "For the great service to Tatar nation" medal recipients. (Aug.3) * We recorded a 40 min interview in Turkish (Aug.4, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK3tFBWMWcs ) * We didn't yet meet the President of the Republic (his schedule changed once again), but I got another firm request to meet with the Minister for Youth Affairs (another good acquaintance of mine, ex-member of local Comedy Club type activity), as well as with the Head of World Congress of Tatars' Executive Bureau, and more TV & written press interviews are lining up. * I am trying to manage these guys' optimism & desire to move quickly, keeping in mind they are not really familiar with the Wiki-way or our communities' policies & practices * Bashkir (ba) & Sakha (sah) communities have shared advice about how to assure that local Wikimedia community stays clearly independent in a cultural environment where neither Education, nor GLAM programs will attract local partners unless those have a strong support of the regional or federal government entities. * Looking forward to meet with my Wikimania-2017 roommate from the Philippines in Singapore on Aug.16 to collect some more input from Asia
-------- Пересылаемое сообщение-------- 03.08.2018, 19:35, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" [email protected]:
Thursday, 2 August 2018 Republic of Tatarstan Ministry for Informatization & Communication @ IT-park, Kazan 18:00-20:50
Meeting with Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister - Minister for Informatization & Communications Roman Shaykhutdinov http://mic.tatarstan.ru/eng/minister.htm on opportunities Wikimedia projects & popularization thereof among the population of the Republic can bring for Tatarstan
In attendance: * Almaz A. Valiullin, Director General of Tatarstan Center for Information Technologies http://mic.tatarstan.ru/eng/valiullin.htm * Tatyana S. Kamaletdinova, CEO of Tatarstan Center for Information Technologies http://mic.tatarstan.ru/eng/kamaletdinova.htm * Anna V. Yakovleva, Head of Ministry's Press-Service http://mic.tatarstan.ru/rus/about/structure_new?department_id=80576 * Farkhad N. Fatkullin, 2018 Wikimedian of the Year, Wikimedia Russia member https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Frhdkazan
Agenda: 1. Content creation contests 2. Education projects 3. How can these be organized in a systemic way, engaging students throughout all municipal districts of Tatarstan & Tatar diaspora globally, and assessing effectiveness of measures 4. Larger Tatar language internet development, promoting content creation in the language 5. .tatar domain 6. ContentTranslation 7. Generating lists for content creation 8. Free licenses 9. Wikidata 10. Regional educational Wiki-seminar for beginners, introduction & orientation 11. Smartphone oriented educational projects around Tatar & Tatar Wikipedia (beginning with Tatar version of www.kakprav.com & on to WOK Master type ) 12. OSM in Tatar 13. The way forward: visiting WMF to discover other opportunities, MoU with WMF?
Decided: 1. Almaz Valiullin to head the Working Group on behalf of the Ministry 2. Next meeting set for / around 20th of August 3. Minister requested his staff to draft documents regarding moving all Regional & Municipal budget funded websites to CC-BY type free licenses 4. Minister proposed every organization website place a link to a Wikipedia article about it (in Tatar, Russian or English, depending on the language used) 5. Help is requested about developing simple samples or article creation guidelines for various institutions of Tatarstan & diaspora organizations to learn what is considered appropriate by Wiki-community & how should representatives of respective entities 6. Annual Tatar Internet Awards Ceremony to include awards to leading editors of Wikimedia projects in Tatar 7. Help is requested to develop a framework of Wikipedia Article Contests for Secondary School Children of Tatastan, with article quality assessment schemes (prizes & organization to be funded by Tatarstan goverment, promotion in local mass-media, schools & etc.) 8. Help is requested to develop a framework for a sustainable functioning of a Tatarstan & Tatar language oriented Wikimedia thematic organization to be responsible for systemic work around developing & promoting Wikimedia projects in Tatar, as well as Tatarstan-oriented content creation for various Wikis 9. Readiness to consider awarding *.tatar domain names to those, who develop attractive projects in Tatar that can't be hosted on Wikimedia platform or otherwise need a Tatar digital identity 10. Help is requested regarding drafting a program proposal, necessary budget & expected results for a Tatarstan oriented introductory Wiki-seminar, open for a wide public 11. Help is requested to provide links to Wikidata educational materials, Practical Use Cases & expert responses to the Deputy Minister (in English) 12. Help is requested in organizing a learning visit to WMF Headquarters during Tatarstan Delegation annual fall visit to Silicon Valley & other places in U.S. to discover other opportunities
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/%C2%A0%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB.+79274158066%C2%A0/ skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
03.08.2018, 11:42, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" [email protected]:
Hi Nochole & Kui,
Thank you for your responses & readiness to help.
Events on the ground are developing following predictable course - we had a very constructive 3 hour long discussion last night with Tatarstan's Deputy Prime Minister (IT minister) & his team, whilst earlier Thursday I got an invite to meet with another Deputy Prime Minister (President of the National Council of Trustees for the World Congress of Tatars Association).
More TV & magazine interviews are expected, some in detail articles in Russian promoting Wikimedia projects are in the pipelines (expecting to see the texts for necessary corrections & adding links to respective WMRU, Meta, WMF & related independent media articles (thanks to ComCom).
I hope to find time to prepare & email both you (in English) & IT ministry's Working Group (in Russian) my summary of yesterday late evening meeting, with attendees, topics discussed, request & proposals, etc. They want to move as fast as possible, because this will help them to meet promoting Tatar language use online task they are charged with by the region's President.
Just a few to begin with:
- Ready to move all regional and municipal government websites into CC-BY, add links to respective WP articles from all these
- Willing to have Tatarstan & Tatar language oriented thematic organization in place to work with secondary schools & Universities, GLAMS, diaspora
- Ready to sponsor prizes for article writing contests (either through WMRU or this new entity)
- Requesting guidance from myself & Wikimedia community on what's the best way to make this all successful
- Interested in supporting WMRU organized general public educational Wiki-Seminar in Tatarstan Academy of Sciences or other respected facility with a large conference hall open to all public (September-October?)
- Willing to visit WMF headquarters in November to meet, learn more about what's there (I admit I don't read all mailing lists or Meta discussions, don't have time to see all wonderful YouTube videos available, haven't yet have time to visit a single Wikimedia Conference) & possibly sign MoUs or whatever that would help speed up Wikimedia acceptance & popularity growth among the population of the region.
I am in touch with Wikimedia RU & Wikimedia Languages of Russia Community's regarding ongoing developments, benefiting from collective wisdom of Wikimedians I know.
Should you be ready to bring any ideas to the table, please shoot them my way.
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/%C2%A0%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB.+79274158066%C2%A0/ skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
02.08.2018, 16:35, "Nichole Saad" [email protected]:
Hi Farhad,
First, congratulations on being named "Wikimedian of the Year!" We have received your letter, and are looking forward to engage with your ideas. Realistically, I'll be able to provide a more in depth response early next week.
best regards,
Nichole
On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 2:45 PM Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin [email protected] wrote:
Dear Sirs,
This is from Farhad, User:frhdkazan (ComCom member, now a.k.a. 2018 Wikimedian of the Year) with some proposals about how to leverage a fleeting opportunity I got. Please read the text below this letter ASAP & think how you can help seize the moment. I'm looking forward to first ideas within 24 hours from now.
Any support of yours would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a million. regards, farhad
P.S. More on where I'm coming from can later be discovered @ http://frhd.narod.ru/resume-en.htm (dated, stopped my retainer contract with the Office of Tatarstan President in September 2013) & more up-to-date but in Russian @ http://sikzn.narod.ru/index/0-4 . I have previously translated & provided digital media with the link to Russian text of Wikimedia Blog post about Jess Wade https://ru.wikinews.org/wiki/?curid=176108 , & now contacted Asian colleagues to get similar content about Nahid Sultan & Wikimedia Bangladesh. Also on my agenda is to record a video-interview in Turkish for Wikimedia Turkey's communication campaign - I speak the language & we are in touch with Turkish community. I also need to get back to interpreting into Russian videos of Wikimania-2018 available on YouTube - maybe later this week, before I join my family for a few days off & then a week-long interpretation assignment in Singapore.
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 / skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
TRIGGER Following Jimmy's unexpected pass during Wikimania-2018 Closing Ceremony, I became an instant celebrity of sort - myself alone I've seen over 40 articles with positive PR about Wikipedia & wider body of Wikimedia projects,
- one by RT in Russian collecting over 1.1 million Facebook likes in under 8 hours from publication
- short positive ones from Russian Federation government's Official gazette & Russkiy Mir Foundation
- first ever mention that people can donate to Wikimedia Russia volunteers organization for us to be able to fund local Wiki-seminars, conferences & contests (WMF is not funding Wikimedia Russia & can't allow us to use donate link from Russian Wikipedia or place a link to "Thank you, but we don't accept donations from Russia" page where users from Russia are being routed
- about to get one with links published to various WMF & Wikimedia Russia projects, including promoting free licenses, Education & GLAM programs, etc.
I'm periodically collecting these @ https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%... when time permits, but there's more in my Facebook Messenger.
CONTEXT This is also generating very positive attention on behalf of the Republic of Tatarstan government, as well as our regional NGO partner, Selet Youth Education Foundation, with whom yet unrecognized Tatar Wikimedians are jointly running Selet WikiSchool project. https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/May_2018/Selet_WikiSchool The latter want to introduce this joint initiative, as well as Wikimedia Russia executive director Stanislav Kozlovsky (Ph.D. in Psychology, Researcher & a Senior lecturer at Moscow State University) and myself to the President of Tatarstan during his visit to their Annual International Forum of Tatar-speaking High-School Age Youth on August 6th. Unrelated to that I was yesterday called up by a good acquaintance of mine (Tatarstan Vice Prime-Minister, Minister for IT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Shaykhutdinov ), who invited me to have a talk with him tomorrow about how promoting Wikimedia projects in wider Tatar-speaking world (only about 25% of Tatars live in Tatarstan) can help him get whatever current President wants him to do to develop Tatar language use online. There are some other Tatarstan Prime-Minister Office level things in the pipeline, & I am also waiting for a call from Russian Federation ex-IT Minister https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_Nikiforov , whom I know from his years in Tatarstan government as well (until 2012). FYI: Wikimedia movement is still unknown in Russia, with local mass media outlets are predominantly speaking about Wikipedia in Russian when there is some lapse that can be exploited to show one's Russian patriotism & thus score some points (basically same political circus, as what we are seeing in U.S. with Russia-collusion story in the overdrive, just opposite direction), and here we get something to reverse the situation big time, explaining to the wide public that it's not only Ok, but even desirable they engage with Wikimedia projects.
IDEA Keeping in mind that Tatarstan President is the head of both Russia-Islamic World Strategic Vision Group & Association of Innovative Regions of Russia, Jimmy gave me a-hell-of-an-opportunity for an elevator pitch for Wikimedia movement in Russia and some adjacent counties (think Turkey & Central Asia), and I would really hate seeing it go unused. I will do my part here (about CC-BY for regional government controlled websites, Wikipedia Education Program as an extracurricular activity in all secondary school & universities, GLAM, as well as some locally funded carrots for participants), but I also want your help in driving this to a home-run. Every fall Tatarstan President & the delegation is visiting Silicon Valley & other places of interest in U.S. & it would be great if we could set-up a physical visit to Wikimedia Foundation, with a first hand presentation of best international practices the movement if proud of & have some MoU on cooperation signed (as a bureaucratic basis for continuing the conversation) with either some department in Tatarstan government, just like the one you signed with the Mexican Ministry of Culture www.eluniversal.com.mx/cultura/secretaria-de-cultura-y-wikimedia-firman-convenio-de-colaboracion. To set the context, Tatarstan has such formal documents with a number of American companies & institutions, with our private English-speaking IT Univesity @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innopolis having been developed jointly with Carnegie Mellon University (with consultancy fees paid by Tatastan), we have Russia's first publicly funded hospital certified to be meeting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Commission requirements & plenty of U.S. investors @ our https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabuga_Special_Economic_Zone . On top of this, we could benefit from having Selet Youth Educational movement http://selet.biz/en/ to embrace Wiki even further, so maybe a similar MoU on collaboration between them and Wikiedu.org signed simultaneously would be great (I met LiAnna and Jami in Montreal last year & was really impressed with what these guys are doing).
REQUEST Please shoot something my way before the same time tomorrow, for me to handle the meeting with Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister more effectively to progressively open other opportunities I've touched on. On top of what I described above & my last year's ideas @ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Frhdkazan/Wiki4RegionalDevt (in Russian), I'll be bringing to the table topics of:
- Wikidata
- OSM, as well as a
- WOK-like project for all things in Tatar (I was contacted by a local 9th grader who, on his own initiative with a help of a teacher, did something similar for students who want to train for Russian-language SAT/ACT type exam www.kakprav.com & now offered to develop such or bigger thing for Tatar). For more on WOK, see https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/01/wikipedia-wok-seek-nigerian-content-onli...
- whatever else you or anybody else can help me think of until then & or later opportunities
-- Nichole Saad Wikimedia Foundation | Senior Program Manager, Education [email protected] user: NSaad (WMF)
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-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/%C2%A0%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB.+79274158066%C2%A0/ skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
On 7 August 2018 at 21:55, Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin [email protected] wrote:
This is a request for your input and possible ideas (if any) regarding my management of the fallout from Jimmy's announcing myself as a 2018 Wikimedian of the Year.
Congratulations on your award!
I would be grateful, if you can advise me on how to properly steer the enthusiasm of behalf of regional government, mass-media, NGOs, etc. which have just discovered about the possibility of participation in Wikimedia movement
There are plenty of possible answers; but to start with I suggest you make contact with the people in the "Central Eastern European Wikimedia Community" network:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Central_and_Eastern_Europe
& also engaging all Tatars globally (3/4 outside of Tatarstan, 1/5 outside of Russia).
For tips on working with a diaspora community, you might talk to Susanna Mkrtchyan and her colleagues at Wikimedia Armenia.
As you're working in the Tatar language, the "Celtic Knot" conference, for Wikipedias in smaller languages, may be of interest. You just missed the 2018 event, but one is proposed for 2019.
Do post here again, if you have other, more specific, questions.
Good luck in your endeavours,
Hi Farhad,
Thank you for your generosity with your time as you respond to the requests and new opportunities.
I like Andy's suggestions. Wikimedia Armenia crossed my mind also as potentially a good organization to contact for ideas, because I have the impression that they have a good (but not excessively close) relationship with their national government, and because they have a very successful Wikipedia Education Program.
Although there seem to be many opportunities for you in the short term, my guess is that you will be unable to take advantage of all of them, and that some that you try will be more successful than others. That is all okay.
Please avoid burning yourself out. Hopefully you can work at a pace that is reasonable for you and will lead to long-term successes. Also, hopefully you can find people who want to help you, and have the time and the skills to do so. You might try to contact people that you have met on-wiki who could help you as you consider the opportunities and how you would like to move forward. I have the impression that you already know many Wikimedians who work on Russian Wikipedia, so hopefully you can get some help from them.
If you could share occasional updates about your progress, maybe by sending an email to Wikimedia-l with once per quarter, I think that at least a few people would be interested to read what you share.
Good luck,
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 8:55 PM, Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin < [email protected]> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
This is a request for your input and possible ideas (if any) regarding my management of the fallout from Jimmy's announcing myself as a 2018 Wikimedian of the Year.
Emails below are a copy of my ongoing consultations with Wikimedia Foundation staff and other Wikimedians I personally know, as well as a report on what's already brewing in my region of Russia after this unexpected outcome.
I would be grateful, if you can advise me on how to properly steer the enthusiasm of behalf of regional government, mass-media, NGOs, etc. which have just discovered about the possibility of participation in Wikimedia movement (think anything from U.S. is not getting much in-depth coverage in Russian by sources that regional public figures, NGOs, teachers or general regional journalists read) & are now placing great hopes on teaching whole of Tatarstan about how to Wiki & also engaging all Tatars globally (3/4 outside of Tatarstan, 1/5 outside of Russia).
regards, farhad
Dear colleagues,
Since yesterday all subdomains hosted @ http://tatarstan.ru/ (including websites of the http://president.tatarstan.ru/, the Cabinet http://prav.tatarstan.ru/, ministries/departments, state-owned organizations, municipalities and Representative offices of the Republic around Russia and abroad) moved to Creative Commons Attribution. The only exceptions are those of the First (ex-) President & the Parliament, that already had their own unique type free licenses (in Russian, non-standard).
Russian Wikinews requested me to draft an article & my counterparty at the Regional Ministry of InfoComm has gladly approved. I will probably need to find time for that today. That was the easy part. Some context: Russian President, Executive Branch of the Federal Government, both Chambers of the Federal Parliament, etc. are using Creative Commons Attribution for a while now, thanks to Senior Volunteers efforts of Wikimedia Russia members. I just communicated the benefits of this to the Regional (Republic of Tatarstan) Deputy Prime-Minister https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Shaykhutdinov, head of the regional infocomm department & he championed it far and wide within his area of responsibility.
I started engaging high-school & university students into helping the Infocomm ministry people to learn what is Wikimedia like & how it works - Deputy Prime-Minister is interested in anything that can benefit Education, Heritage Outreach, etc. development in the region & help in making culture of the Republic better known globally & promote Tatar language use online (Wikidata, GLAM, etc.). Another minister I met is excited with examples of Greek school children https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/July_2017/A_class_of_26_8... & youth in Italy http://www.rivistabricks.it/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/BRICKS_4_2017.pdf & other places develop critical thinking and develop immunity to mass & social media stories painting the world black & white as they please (stories from any outlets, including the BBC or New York Times, have to be taken with a pinch of salt - there's no unbiased human). In parallel, we are starting a cooperation with private Cambridge International school in Kazan http://school.balacity.ru/ (the founders & the director know me, invited me for cooperation, key contact person was part of the meeting, I provided necessary initial links). I know that our youth is now inspired to organize a User Group, report on their Spring & Summer efforts at Wikimedia Conference Russia this September & take their existing Selet WikiSchool project even higher. https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/May_2018/Selet_WikiSchool , more stories coming.
Last night WMF Partnerships agreed to support me in organizing a videoconference type seminar with best practices in Education/GLAM/Heritage promotion/Wikidata/etc. to explain locals about how great is the Wikimedia movement (something mainly unheard of in Russia, even though Wikipedia is actually used). I would love to have you, my dear international colleagues, to find time to connect and give a video talk on some Use Case implementation during the upcoming public seminar, organized in conjunction with Tatarstan InfoComm ministry (whenever we get the dates they will be able to gather local crowd in the IT-Park in downtown Kazan). I will take care of the simultaneous interpretation — all the necessary equipment is there, so I'll try to find the funding & qualified people.
In parallel I'll continue working on organizing a short in-person version at WMF Headquarters for the President of the Republic, if and when we can fit it into his schedule (Tatarstan Deputy Prime-Minister - Regional Minister for InfoComm wanted this to take place during one of the annual regional government delegation visits to California). President Minnikhanov is a co-chair of the Association of Innovative Regions of Russia, as well as Russia-Islamic World Strategic Vision Group, so I think we can use Jimmy's well-timed pass to score well: spreading Wikimedia movement popularity throughout Russia and the Islamic world even further, helping in unblocking Turkey in the process.
"Imagine the world in which every human is a Wikimedian. That's my commitment!"
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/%C2%A0%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB.+79274158066%C2%A0/ skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
09.08.2018, 09:09, "Pine W" [email protected]:
Hi Farhad,
Thank you for your generosity with your time as you respond to the requests and new opportunities.
I like Andy's suggestions. Wikimedia Armenia crossed my mind also as potentially a good organization to contact for ideas, because I have the impression that they have a good (but not excessively close) relationship with their national government, and because they have a very successful Wikipedia Education Program.
Although there seem to be many opportunities for you in the short term, my guess is that you will be unable to take advantage of all of them, and that some that you try will be more successful than others. That is all okay.
Please avoid burning yourself out. Hopefully you can work at a pace that is reasonable for you and will lead to long-term successes. Also, hopefully you can find people who want to help you, and have the time and the skills to do so. You might try to contact people that you have met on-wiki who could help you as you consider the opportunities and how you would like to move forward. I have the impression that you already know many Wikimedians who work on Russian Wikipedia, so hopefully you can get some help from them.
If you could share occasional updates about your progress, maybe by sending an email to Wikimedia-l with once per quarter, I think that at least a few people would be interested to read what you share.
Good luck,
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 8:55 PM, Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin < [email protected]> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
This is a request for your input and possible ideas (if any) regarding my management of the fallout from Jimmy's announcing myself as a 2018 Wikimedian of the Year.
Emails below are a copy of my ongoing consultations with Wikimedia Foundation staff and other Wikimedians I personally know, as well as a report on what's already brewing in my region of Russia after this unexpected outcome.
I would be grateful, if you can advise me on how to properly steer the enthusiasm of behalf of regional government, mass-media, NGOs, etc. which have just discovered about the possibility of participation in Wikimedia movement (think anything from U.S. is not getting much in-depth coverage in Russian by sources that regional public figures, NGOs, teachers or general regional journalists read) & are now placing great hopes on teaching whole of Tatarstan about how to Wiki & also engaging all Tatars globally (3/4 outside of Tatarstan, 1/5 outside of Russia).
regards, farhad
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Dear colleagues,
Since yesterday all subdomains hosted @ http://tatarstan.ru/ (including websites of the http://president.tatarstan.ru/, the Cabinet http://prav.tatarstan.ru/, ministries/departments, state-owned organizations, municipalities and Representative offices of the Republic around Russia and abroad) moved to Creative Commons Attribution. The only exceptions are those of the First (ex-) President & the Parliament, that already had their own unique type free licenses (in Russian, non-standard).
Russian Wikinews requested me to draft an article & my counterparty at the Regional Ministry of InfoComm has gladly approved. I will probably need to find time for that today. That was the easy part. Some context: Russian President, Executive Branch of the Federal Government, both Chambers of the Federal Parliament, etc. are using Creative Commons Attribution for a while now, thanks to Senior Volunteers efforts of Wikimedia Russia members. I just communicated the benefits of this to the Regional (Republic of Tatarstan) Deputy Prime-Minister https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Shaykhutdinov, head of the regional infocomm department & he championed it far and wide within his area of responsibility.
I started engaging high-school & university students into helping the Infocomm ministry people to learn what is Wikimedia like & how it works - Deputy Prime-Minister is interested in anything that can benefit Education, Heritage Outreach, etc. development in the region & help in making culture of the Republic better known globally & promote Tatar language use online (Wikidata, GLAM, etc.). Another minister I met is excited with examples of Greek school children https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/July_2017/A_class_of_26_8... & youth in Italy http://www.rivistabricks.it/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/BRICKS_4_2017.pdf & other places develop critical thinking and develop immunity to mass & social media stories painting the world black & white as they please (stories from any outlets, including the BBC or New York Times, have to be taken with a pinch of salt - there's no unbiased human). In parallel, we are starting a cooperation with private Cambridge International school in Kazan http://school.balacity.ru/ (the founders & the director know me, invited me for cooperation, key contact person was part of the meeting, I provided necessary initial links). I know that our youth is now inspired to organize a User Group, report on their Spring & Summer efforts at Wikimedia Conference Russia this September & take their existing Selet WikiSchool project even higher. https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/May_2018/Selet_WikiSchool , more stories coming.
Last night WMF Partnerships agreed to support me in organizing a videoconference type seminar with best practices in Education/GLAM/Heritage promotion/Wikidata/etc. to explain locals about how great is the Wikimedia movement (something mainly unheard of in Russia, even though Wikipedia is actually used). I would love to have you, my dear international colleagues, to find time to connect and give a video talk on some Use Case implementation during the upcoming public seminar, organized in conjunction with Tatarstan InfoComm ministry (whenever we get the dates they will be able to gather local crowd in the IT-Park in downtown Kazan). I will take care of the simultaneous interpretation — all the necessary equipment is there, so I'll try to find the funding & qualified people.
In parallel I'll continue working on organizing a short in-person version at WMF Headquarters for the President of the Republic, if and when we can fit it into his schedule (Tatarstan Deputy Prime-Minister - Regional Minister for InfoComm wanted this to take place during one of the annual regional government delegation visits to California). President Minnikhanov is a co-chair of the Association of Innovative Regions of Russia, as well as Russia-Islamic World Strategic Vision Group, so I think we can use Jimmy's well-timed pass to score well: spreading Wikimedia movement popularity throughout Russia and the Islamic world even further, helping in unblocking Turkey in the process.
"Imagine the world in which every human is a Wikimedian. That's my commitment!"
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/%C2%A0%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB.+79274158066%C2%A0/ skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
09.08.2018, 09:09, "Pine W" [email protected]:
Hi Farhad,
Thank you for your generosity with your time as you respond to the requests and new opportunities.
I like Andy's suggestions. Wikimedia Armenia crossed my mind also as potentially a good organization to contact for ideas, because I have the impression that they have a good (but not excessively close) relationship with their national government, and because they have a very successful Wikipedia Education Program.
Although there seem to be many opportunities for you in the short term, my guess is that you will be unable to take advantage of all of them, and that some that you try will be more successful than others. That is all okay.
Please avoid burning yourself out. Hopefully you can work at a pace that is reasonable for you and will lead to long-term successes. Also, hopefully you can find people who want to help you, and have the time and the skills to do so. You might try to contact people that you have met on-wiki who could help you as you consider the opportunities and how you would like to move forward. I have the impression that you already know many Wikimedians who work on Russian Wikipedia, so hopefully you can get some help from them.
If you could share occasional updates about your progress, maybe by sending an email to Wikimedia-l with once per quarter, I think that at least a few people would be interested to read what you share.
Good luck,
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 8:55 PM, Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin < [email protected]> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
This is a request for your input and possible ideas (if any) regarding my management of the fallout from Jimmy's announcing myself as a 2018 Wikimedian of the Year.
Emails below are a copy of my ongoing consultations with Wikimedia Foundation staff and other Wikimedians I personally know, as well as a report on what's already brewing in my region of Russia after this unexpected outcome.
I would be grateful, if you can advise me on how to properly steer the enthusiasm of behalf of regional government, mass-media, NGOs, etc. which have just discovered about the possibility of participation in Wikimedia movement (think anything from U.S. is not getting much in-depth coverage in Russian by sources that regional public figures, NGOs, teachers or general regional journalists read) & are now placing great hopes on teaching whole of Tatarstan about how to Wiki & also engaging all Tatars globally (3/4 outside of Tatarstan, 1/5 outside of Russia).
regards, farhad
_______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
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Farkhad,
It's fantastic to see what you're doing with this. Thank you.
//Johan Jönsson --
On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 2:09 PM, Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin < [email protected]> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
Since yesterday all subdomains hosted @ http://tatarstan.ru/ (including websites of the http://president.tatarstan.ru/, the Cabinet http://prav.tatarstan.ru/, ministries/departments, state-owned organizations, municipalities and Representative offices of the Republic around Russia and abroad) moved to Creative Commons Attribution. The only exceptions are those of the First (ex-) President & the Parliament, that already had their own unique type free licenses (in Russian, non-standard).
Russian Wikinews requested me to draft an article & my counterparty at the Regional Ministry of InfoComm has gladly approved. I will probably need to find time for that today. That was the easy part. Some context: Russian President, Executive Branch of the Federal Government, both Chambers of the Federal Parliament, etc. are using Creative Commons Attribution for a while now, thanks to Senior Volunteers efforts of Wikimedia Russia members. I just communicated the benefits of this to the Regional (Republic of Tatarstan) Deputy Prime-Minister https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Roman_Shaykhutdinov, head of the regional infocomm department & he championed it far and wide within his area of responsibility.
I started engaging high-school & university students into helping the Infocomm ministry people to learn what is Wikimedia like & how it works - Deputy Prime-Minister is interested in anything that can benefit Education, Heritage Outreach, etc. development in the region & help in making culture of the Republic better known globally & promote Tatar language use online (Wikidata, GLAM, etc.). Another minister I met is excited with examples of Greek school children https://outreach.wikimedia. org/wiki/Education/News/July_2017/A_class_of_26_8-year-old_ Wikipedia_article_creators & youth in Italy http://www.rivistabricks.it/ wp-content/uploads/2017/12/BRICKS_4_2017.pdf & other places develop critical thinking and develop immunity to mass & social media stories painting the world black & white as they please (stories from any outlets, including the BBC or New York Times, have to be taken with a pinch of salt
- there's no unbiased human). In parallel, we are starting a cooperation
with private Cambridge International school in Kazan http://school.balacity.ru/ (the founders & the director know me, invited me for cooperation, key contact person was part of the meeting, I provided necessary initial links). I know that our youth is now inspired to organize a User Group, report on their Spring & Summer efforts at Wikimedia Conference Russia this September & take their existing Selet WikiSchool project even higher. https://outreach.wikimedia. org/wiki/Education/News/May_2018/Selet_WikiSchool , more stories coming.
Last night WMF Partnerships agreed to support me in organizing a videoconference type seminar with best practices in Education/GLAM/Heritage promotion/Wikidata/etc. to explain locals about how great is the Wikimedia movement (something mainly unheard of in Russia, even though Wikipedia is actually used). I would love to have you, my dear international colleagues, to find time to connect and give a video talk on some Use Case implementation during the upcoming public seminar, organized in conjunction with Tatarstan InfoComm ministry (whenever we get the dates they will be able to gather local crowd in the IT-Park in downtown Kazan). I will take care of the simultaneous interpretation — all the necessary equipment is there, so I'll try to find the funding & qualified people.
In parallel I'll continue working on organizing a short in-person version at WMF Headquarters for the President of the Republic, if and when we can fit it into his schedule (Tatarstan Deputy Prime-Minister - Regional Minister for InfoComm wanted this to take place during one of the annual regional government delegation visits to California). President Minnikhanov is a co-chair of the Association of Innovative Regions of Russia, as well as Russia-Islamic World Strategic Vision Group, so I think we can use Jimmy's well-timed pass to score well: spreading Wikimedia movement popularity throughout Russia and the Islamic world even further, helping in unblocking Turkey in the process.
"Imagine the world in which every human is a Wikimedian. That's my commitment!"
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 / skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
09.08.2018, 09:09, "Pine W" [email protected]:
Hi Farhad,
Thank you for your generosity with your time as you respond to the
requests
and new opportunities.
I like Andy's suggestions. Wikimedia Armenia crossed my mind also as potentially a good organization to contact for ideas, because I have the impression that they have a good (but not excessively close)
relationship
with their national government, and because they have a very successful Wikipedia Education Program.
Although there seem to be many opportunities for you in the short term,
my
guess is that you will be unable to take advantage of all of them, and
that
some that you try will be more successful than others. That is all okay.
Please avoid burning yourself out. Hopefully you can work at a pace
that is
reasonable for you and will lead to long-term successes. Also, hopefully you can find people who want to help you, and have the time and the
skills
to do so. You might try to contact people that you have met on-wiki who could help you as you consider the opportunities and how you would like
to
move forward. I have the impression that you already know many
Wikimedians
who work on Russian Wikipedia, so hopefully you can get some help from
them.
If you could share occasional updates about your progress, maybe by
sending
an email to Wikimedia-l with once per quarter, I think that at least a
few
people would be interested to read what you share.
Good luck,
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 8:55 PM, Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin < [email protected]> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
This is a request for your input and possible ideas (if any)
regarding my
management of the fallout from Jimmy's announcing myself as a 2018 Wikimedian of the Year.
Emails below are a copy of my ongoing consultations with Wikimedia Foundation staff and other Wikimedians I personally know, as well as a report on what's already brewing in my region of Russia after this unexpected outcome.
I would be grateful, if you can advise me on how to properly steer the enthusiasm of behalf of regional government, mass-media, NGOs, etc.
which
have just discovered about the possibility of participation in
Wikimedia
movement (think anything from U.S. is not getting much in-depth
coverage in
Russian by sources that regional public figures, NGOs, teachers or
general
regional journalists read) & are now placing great hopes on teaching
whole
of Tatarstan about how to Wiki & also engaging all Tatars globally
(3/4
outside of Tatarstan, 1/5 outside of Russia).
regards, farhad
Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/
wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Wikimedia-l
New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l,
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Thank you Farhard for sharing out the progress that you have been making as a benefit of the Wikipedian of the Year! I look forward to continuing to support these conversations, and hope that this kind of impact can repeat!
Cheers,
Alex
On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 9:11 AM, Johan Jönsson [email protected] wrote:
Farkhad,
It's fantastic to see what you're doing with this. Thank you.
//Johan Jönsson
On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 2:09 PM, Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin < [email protected]> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
Since yesterday all subdomains hosted @ http://tatarstan.ru/ (including websites of the http://president.tatarstan.ru/, the Cabinet http://prav.tatarstan.ru/, ministries/departments, state-owned organizations, municipalities and Representative offices of the Republic around Russia and abroad) moved to Creative Commons Attribution. The only exceptions are those of the First (ex-) President & the Parliament, that already had their own unique type free licenses (in Russian,
non-standard).
Russian Wikinews requested me to draft an article & my counterparty at
the
Regional Ministry of InfoComm has gladly approved. I will probably need
to
find time for that today. That was the easy part. Some context: Russian President, Executive Branch of the Federal Government, both Chambers of
the
Federal Parliament, etc. are using Creative Commons Attribution for a
while
now, thanks to Senior Volunteers efforts of Wikimedia Russia members. I just communicated the benefits of this to the Regional (Republic of Tatarstan) Deputy Prime-Minister https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Roman_Shaykhutdinov, head of the regional infocomm department & he championed it far and wide within his area of responsibility.
I started engaging high-school & university students into helping the Infocomm ministry people to learn what is Wikimedia like & how it works - Deputy Prime-Minister is interested in anything that can benefit
Education,
Heritage Outreach, etc. development in the region & help in making
culture
of the Republic better known globally & promote Tatar language use online (Wikidata, GLAM, etc.). Another minister I met is excited with examples
of
Greek school children https://outreach.wikimedia. org/wiki/Education/News/July_2017/A_class_of_26_8-year-old_ Wikipedia_article_creators & youth in Italy http://www.rivistabricks.it/ wp-content/uploads/2017/12/BRICKS_4_2017.pdf & other places develop critical thinking and develop immunity to mass & social media stories painting the world black & white as they please (stories from any
outlets,
including the BBC or New York Times, have to be taken with a pinch of
salt
- there's no unbiased human). In parallel, we are starting a cooperation
with private Cambridge International school in Kazan http://school.balacity.ru/ (the founders & the director know me, invited me for cooperation, key contact person was part of the meeting, I
provided
necessary initial links). I know that our youth is now inspired to
organize
a User Group, report on their Spring & Summer efforts at Wikimedia Conference Russia this September & take their existing Selet WikiSchool project even higher. https://outreach.wikimedia. org/wiki/Education/News/May_2018/Selet_WikiSchool , more stories coming.
Last night WMF Partnerships agreed to support me in organizing a videoconference type seminar with best practices in
Education/GLAM/Heritage
promotion/Wikidata/etc. to explain locals about how great is the
Wikimedia
movement (something mainly unheard of in Russia, even though Wikipedia is actually used). I would love to have you, my dear international
colleagues,
to find time to connect and give a video talk on some Use Case implementation during the upcoming public seminar, organized in
conjunction
with Tatarstan InfoComm ministry (whenever we get the dates they will be able to gather local crowd in the IT-Park in downtown Kazan). I will take care of the simultaneous interpretation — all the necessary equipment is there, so I'll try to find the funding & qualified people.
In parallel I'll continue working on organizing a short in-person version at WMF Headquarters for the President of the Republic, if and when we can fit it into his schedule (Tatarstan Deputy Prime-Minister - Regional Minister for InfoComm wanted this to take place during one of the annual regional government delegation visits to California). President
Minnikhanov
is a co-chair of the Association of Innovative Regions of Russia, as well as Russia-Islamic World Strategic Vision Group, so I think we can use Jimmy's well-timed pass to score well: spreading Wikimedia movement popularity throughout Russia and the Islamic world even further, helping
in
unblocking Turkey in the process.
"Imagine the world in which every human is a Wikimedian. That's my commitment!"
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 / skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
09.08.2018, 09:09, "Pine W" [email protected]:
Hi Farhad,
Thank you for your generosity with your time as you respond to the
requests
and new opportunities.
I like Andy's suggestions. Wikimedia Armenia crossed my mind also as potentially a good organization to contact for ideas, because I have
the
impression that they have a good (but not excessively close)
relationship
with their national government, and because they have a very
successful
Wikipedia Education Program.
Although there seem to be many opportunities for you in the short
term,
my
guess is that you will be unable to take advantage of all of them, and
that
some that you try will be more successful than others. That is all
okay.
Please avoid burning yourself out. Hopefully you can work at a pace
that is
reasonable for you and will lead to long-term successes. Also,
hopefully
you can find people who want to help you, and have the time and the
skills
to do so. You might try to contact people that you have met on-wiki
who
could help you as you consider the opportunities and how you would
like
to
move forward. I have the impression that you already know many
Wikimedians
who work on Russian Wikipedia, so hopefully you can get some help from
them.
If you could share occasional updates about your progress, maybe by
sending
an email to Wikimedia-l with once per quarter, I think that at least a
few
people would be interested to read what you share.
Good luck,
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 8:55 PM, Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin < [email protected]> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
This is a request for your input and possible ideas (if any)
regarding my
management of the fallout from Jimmy's announcing myself as a 2018 Wikimedian of the Year.
Emails below are a copy of my ongoing consultations with Wikimedia Foundation staff and other Wikimedians I personally know, as well
as a
report on what's already brewing in my region of Russia after this unexpected outcome.
I would be grateful, if you can advise me on how to properly steer
the
enthusiasm of behalf of regional government, mass-media, NGOs, etc.
which
have just discovered about the possibility of participation in
Wikimedia
movement (think anything from U.S. is not getting much in-depth
coverage in
Russian by sources that regional public figures, NGOs, teachers or
general
regional journalists read) & are now placing great hopes on teaching
whole
of Tatarstan about how to Wiki & also engaging all Tatars globally
(3/4
outside of Tatarstan, 1/5 outside of Russia).
regards, farhad
Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/
wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Wikimedia-l
New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
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Thanks for picking this challenge up with such enthusiasm!
Lodewijk
On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 6:58 AM Alex Stinson [email protected] wrote:
Thank you Farhard for sharing out the progress that you have been making as a benefit of the Wikipedian of the Year! I look forward to continuing to support these conversations, and hope that this kind of impact can repeat!
Cheers,
Alex
On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 9:11 AM, Johan Jönsson [email protected] wrote:
Farkhad,
It's fantastic to see what you're doing with this. Thank you.
//Johan Jönsson
On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 2:09 PM, Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin < [email protected]> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
Since yesterday all subdomains hosted @ http://tatarstan.ru/
(including
websites of the http://president.tatarstan.ru/, the Cabinet http://prav.tatarstan.ru/, ministries/departments, state-owned organizations, municipalities and Representative offices of the
Republic
around Russia and abroad) moved to Creative Commons Attribution. The
only
exceptions are those of the First (ex-) President & the Parliament,
that
already had their own unique type free licenses (in Russian,
non-standard).
Russian Wikinews requested me to draft an article & my counterparty at
the
Regional Ministry of InfoComm has gladly approved. I will probably need
to
find time for that today. That was the easy part. Some context: Russian President, Executive Branch of the Federal Government, both Chambers of
the
Federal Parliament, etc. are using Creative Commons Attribution for a
while
now, thanks to Senior Volunteers efforts of Wikimedia Russia members. I just communicated the benefits of this to the Regional (Republic of Tatarstan) Deputy Prime-Minister https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Roman_Shaykhutdinov, head of the regional infocomm department & he championed it far and wide within his area of responsibility.
I started engaging high-school & university students into helping the Infocomm ministry people to learn what is Wikimedia like & how it
works -
Deputy Prime-Minister is interested in anything that can benefit
Education,
Heritage Outreach, etc. development in the region & help in making
culture
of the Republic better known globally & promote Tatar language use
online
(Wikidata, GLAM, etc.). Another minister I met is excited with examples
of
Greek school children https://outreach.wikimedia. org/wiki/Education/News/July_2017/A_class_of_26_8-year-old_ Wikipedia_article_creators & youth in Italy
http://www.rivistabricks.it/
wp-content/uploads/2017/12/BRICKS_4_2017.pdf & other places develop critical thinking and develop immunity to mass & social media stories painting the world black & white as they please (stories from any
outlets,
including the BBC or New York Times, have to be taken with a pinch of
salt
- there's no unbiased human). In parallel, we are starting a
cooperation
with private Cambridge International school in Kazan http://school.balacity.ru/ (the founders & the director know me,
invited
me for cooperation, key contact person was part of the meeting, I
provided
necessary initial links). I know that our youth is now inspired to
organize
a User Group, report on their Spring & Summer efforts at Wikimedia Conference Russia this September & take their existing Selet WikiSchool project even higher. https://outreach.wikimedia. org/wiki/Education/News/May_2018/Selet_WikiSchool , more stories
coming.
Last night WMF Partnerships agreed to support me in organizing a videoconference type seminar with best practices in
Education/GLAM/Heritage
promotion/Wikidata/etc. to explain locals about how great is the
Wikimedia
movement (something mainly unheard of in Russia, even though Wikipedia
is
actually used). I would love to have you, my dear international
colleagues,
to find time to connect and give a video talk on some Use Case implementation during the upcoming public seminar, organized in
conjunction
with Tatarstan InfoComm ministry (whenever we get the dates they will
be
able to gather local crowd in the IT-Park in downtown Kazan). I will
take
care of the simultaneous interpretation — all the necessary equipment
is
there, so I'll try to find the funding & qualified people.
In parallel I'll continue working on organizing a short in-person
version
at WMF Headquarters for the President of the Republic, if and when we
can
fit it into his schedule (Tatarstan Deputy Prime-Minister - Regional Minister for InfoComm wanted this to take place during one of the
annual
regional government delegation visits to California). President
Minnikhanov
is a co-chair of the Association of Innovative Regions of Russia, as
well
as Russia-Islamic World Strategic Vision Group, so I think we can use Jimmy's well-timed pass to score well: spreading Wikimedia movement popularity throughout Russia and the Islamic world even further,
helping
in
unblocking Turkey in the process.
"Imagine the world in which every human is a Wikimedian. That's my commitment!"
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/
Тел.+79274158066 /
skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
09.08.2018, 09:09, "Pine W" [email protected]:
Hi Farhad,
Thank you for your generosity with your time as you respond to the
requests
and new opportunities.
I like Andy's suggestions. Wikimedia Armenia crossed my mind also as potentially a good organization to contact for ideas, because I have
the
impression that they have a good (but not excessively close)
relationship
with their national government, and because they have a very
successful
Wikipedia Education Program.
Although there seem to be many opportunities for you in the short
term,
my
guess is that you will be unable to take advantage of all of them,
and
that
some that you try will be more successful than others. That is all
okay.
Please avoid burning yourself out. Hopefully you can work at a pace
that is
reasonable for you and will lead to long-term successes. Also,
hopefully
you can find people who want to help you, and have the time and the
skills
to do so. You might try to contact people that you have met on-wiki
who
could help you as you consider the opportunities and how you would
like
to
move forward. I have the impression that you already know many
Wikimedians
who work on Russian Wikipedia, so hopefully you can get some help
from
them.
If you could share occasional updates about your progress, maybe by
sending
an email to Wikimedia-l with once per quarter, I think that at
least a
few
people would be interested to read what you share.
Good luck,
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 8:55 PM, Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad
Fatkullin <
[email protected]> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
This is a request for your input and possible ideas (if any)
regarding my
management of the fallout from Jimmy's announcing myself as a 2018 Wikimedian of the Year.
Emails below are a copy of my ongoing consultations with Wikimedia Foundation staff and other Wikimedians I personally know, as well
as a
report on what's already brewing in my region of Russia after this unexpected outcome.
I would be grateful, if you can advise me on how to properly steer
the
enthusiasm of behalf of regional government, mass-media, NGOs,
etc.
which
have just discovered about the possibility of participation in
Wikimedia
movement (think anything from U.S. is not getting much in-depth
coverage in
Russian by sources that regional public figures, NGOs, teachers or
general
regional journalists read) & are now placing great hopes on
teaching
whole
of Tatarstan about how to Wiki & also engaging all Tatars globally
(3/4
outside of Tatarstan, 1/5 outside of Russia).
regards, farhad
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http://mic.tatarstan.ru/rus/index.htm/news/1273420.htm
The article is about the Republic of Tatarstan government portal http://www.tatarstan.ru/ and its subdomains now being available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, just like a number of others throughout the country https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BA_%D1%81%D0...
It's probably the first time regional government website in the Russian Federation quoted Russian Wikinews article https://ru.wikinews.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5_%D1%... ― the part about local seminar initiative to be dedicated to Education, GLAM etc. was left out, but their press-service made the day of Russian Wikinews community by also being attentive to proper attribution.
regards, farhad -- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/%C2%A0%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB.+79274158066%C2%A0/ skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
29.08.2018, 20:56, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" [email protected]:
Dear colleagues,
Since yesterday all subdomains hosted @ http://tatarstan.ru/ (including websites of the http://president.tatarstan.ru/, the Cabinet http://prav.tatarstan.ru/, ministries/departments, state-owned organizations, municipalities and Representative offices of the Republic around Russia and abroad) moved to Creative Commons Attribution. The only exceptions are those of the First (ex-) President & the Parliament, that already had their own unique type free licenses (in Russian, non-standard).
Russian Wikinews requested me to draft an article & my counterparty at the Regional Ministry of InfoComm has gladly approved. I will probably need to find time for that today. That was the easy part. Some context: Russian President, Executive Branch of the Federal Government, both Chambers of the Federal Parliament, etc. are using Creative Commons Attribution for a while now, thanks to Senior Volunteers efforts of Wikimedia Russia members. I just communicated the benefits of this to the Regional (Republic of Tatarstan) Deputy Prime-Minister https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Shaykhutdinov, head of the regional infocomm department & he championed it far and wide within his area of responsibility.
I started engaging high-school & university students into helping the Infocomm ministry people to learn what is Wikimedia like & how it works - Deputy Prime-Minister is interested in anything that can benefit Education, Heritage Outreach, etc. development in the region & help in making culture of the Republic better known globally & promote Tatar language use online (Wikidata, GLAM, etc.). Another minister I met is excited with examples of Greek school children https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/July_2017/A_class_of_26_8... & youth in Italy http://www.rivistabricks.it/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/BRICKS_4_2017.pdf & other places develop critical thinking and develop immunity to mass & social media stories painting the world black & white as they please (stories from any outlets, including the BBC or New York Times, have to be taken with a pinch of salt - there's no unbiased human). In parallel, we are starting a cooperation with private Cambridge International school in Kazan http://school.balacity.ru/ (the founders & the director know me, invited me for cooperation, key contact person was part of the meeting, I provided necessary initial links). I know that our youth is now inspired to organize a User Group, report on their Spring & Summer efforts at Wikimedia Conference Russia this September & take their existing Selet WikiSchool project even higher. https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/May_2018/Selet_WikiSchool , more stories coming.
Last night WMF Partnerships agreed to support me in organizing a videoconference type seminar with best practices in Education/GLAM/Heritage promotion/Wikidata/etc. to explain locals about how great is the Wikimedia movement (something mainly unheard of in Russia, even though Wikipedia is actually used). I would love to have you, my dear international colleagues, to find time to connect and give a video talk on some Use Case implementation during the upcoming public seminar, organized in conjunction with Tatarstan InfoComm ministry (whenever we get the dates they will be able to gather local crowd in the IT-Park in downtown Kazan). I will take care of the simultaneous interpretation — all the necessary equipment is there, so I'll try to find the funding & qualified people.
In parallel I'll continue working on organizing a short in-person version at WMF Headquarters for the President of the Republic, if and when we can fit it into his schedule (Tatarstan Deputy Prime-Minister - Regional Minister for InfoComm wanted this to take place during one of the annual regional government delegation visits to California). President Minnikhanov is a co-chair of the Association of Innovative Regions of Russia, as well as Russia-Islamic World Strategic Vision Group, so I think we can use Jimmy's well-timed pass to score well: spreading Wikimedia movement popularity throughout Russia and the Islamic world even further, helping in unblocking Turkey in the process.
"Imagine the world in which every human is a Wikimedian. That's my commitment!"
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/%C2%A0%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB.+79274158066%C2%A0/ skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
09.08.2018, 09:09, "Pine W" [email protected]:
Hi Farhad,
Thank you for your generosity with your time as you respond to the requests and new opportunities.
I like Andy's suggestions. Wikimedia Armenia crossed my mind also as potentially a good organization to contact for ideas, because I have the impression that they have a good (but not excessively close) relationship with their national government, and because they have a very successful Wikipedia Education Program.
Although there seem to be many opportunities for you in the short term, my guess is that you will be unable to take advantage of all of them, and that some that you try will be more successful than others. That is all okay.
Please avoid burning yourself out. Hopefully you can work at a pace that is reasonable for you and will lead to long-term successes. Also, hopefully you can find people who want to help you, and have the time and the skills to do so. You might try to contact people that you have met on-wiki who could help you as you consider the opportunities and how you would like to move forward. I have the impression that you already know many Wikimedians who work on Russian Wikipedia, so hopefully you can get some help from them.
If you could share occasional updates about your progress, maybe by sending an email to Wikimedia-l with once per quarter, I think that at least a few people would be interested to read what you share.
Good luck,
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 8:55 PM, Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin < [email protected]> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
This is a request for your input and possible ideas (if any) regarding my management of the fallout from Jimmy's announcing myself as a 2018 Wikimedian of the Year.
Emails below are a copy of my ongoing consultations with Wikimedia Foundation staff and other Wikimedians I personally know, as well as a report on what's already brewing in my region of Russia after this unexpected outcome.
I would be grateful, if you can advise me on how to properly steer the enthusiasm of behalf of regional government, mass-media, NGOs, etc. which have just discovered about the possibility of participation in Wikimedia movement (think anything from U.S. is not getting much in-depth coverage in Russian by sources that regional public figures, NGOs, teachers or general regional journalists read) & are now placing great hopes on teaching whole of Tatarstan about how to Wiki & also engaging all Tatars globally (3/4 outside of Tatarstan, 1/5 outside of Russia).
regards, farhad
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http://mic.tatarstan.ru/rus/index.htm/news/1273420.htm
It's probably the first time regional government website in the Russian Federation quoted Russian Wikinews article https://ru.wikinews.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5_%D1%... ― only the part about Republic of Tatarstan government portal http://www.tatarstan.ru/ and its subdomains now being available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International is mentioned, the part about local seminar initiative to be dedicated to Education, GLAM etc. was left out, but their press-service made the day of Russian Wikinews community by also being attentive to proper attribution.
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/%C2%A0%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB.+79274158066%C2%A0/ skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
29.08.2018, 20:56, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" [email protected]:
Dear colleagues,
Since yesterday all subdomains hosted @ http://tatarstan.ru/ (including websites of the http://president.tatarstan.ru/, the Cabinet http://prav.tatarstan.ru/, ministries/departments, state-owned organizations, municipalities and Representative offices of the Republic around Russia and abroad) moved to Creative Commons Attribution. The only exceptions are those of the First (ex-) President & the Parliament, that already had their own unique type free licenses (in Russian, non-standard).
Russian Wikinews requested me to draft an article & my counterparty at the Regional Ministry of InfoComm has gladly approved. I will probably need to find time for that today. That was the easy part. Some context: Russian President, Executive Branch of the Federal Government, both Chambers of the Federal Parliament, etc. are using Creative Commons Attribution for a while now, thanks to Senior Volunteers efforts of Wikimedia Russia members. I just communicated the benefits of this to the Regional (Republic of Tatarstan) Deputy Prime-Minister https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Shaykhutdinov, head of the regional infocomm department & he championed it far and wide within his area of responsibility.
I started engaging high-school & university students into helping the Infocomm ministry people to learn what is Wikimedia like & how it works - Deputy Prime-Minister is interested in anything that can benefit Education, Heritage Outreach, etc. development in the region & help in making culture of the Republic better known globally & promote Tatar language use online (Wikidata, GLAM, etc.). Another minister I met is excited with examples of Greek school children https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/July_2017/A_class_of_26_8... & youth in Italy http://www.rivistabricks.it/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/BRICKS_4_2017.pdf & other places develop critical thinking and develop immunity to mass & social media stories painting the world black & white as they please (stories from any outlets, including the BBC or New York Times, have to be taken with a pinch of salt - there's no unbiased human). In parallel, we are starting a cooperation with private Cambridge International school in Kazan http://school.balacity.ru/ (the founders & the director know me, invited me for cooperation, key contact person was part of the meeting, I provided necessary initial links). I know that our youth is now inspired to organize a User Group, report on their Spring & Summer efforts at Wikimedia Conference Russia this September & take their existing Selet WikiSchool project even higher. https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/May_2018/Selet_WikiSchool , more stories coming.
Last night WMF Partnerships agreed to support me in organizing a videoconference type seminar with best practices in Education/GLAM/Heritage promotion/Wikidata/etc. to explain locals about how great is the Wikimedia movement (something mainly unheard of in Russia, even though Wikipedia is actually used). I would love to have you, my dear international colleagues, to find time to connect and give a video talk on some Use Case implementation during the upcoming public seminar, organized in conjunction with Tatarstan InfoComm ministry (whenever we get the dates they will be able to gather local crowd in the IT-Park in downtown Kazan). I will take care of the simultaneous interpretation — all the necessary equipment is there, so I'll try to find the funding & qualified people.
In parallel I'll continue working on organizing a short in-person version at WMF Headquarters for the President of the Republic, if and when we can fit it into his schedule (Tatarstan Deputy Prime-Minister - Regional Minister for InfoComm wanted this to take place during one of the annual regional government delegation visits to California). President Minnikhanov is a co-chair of the Association of Innovative Regions of Russia, as well as Russia-Islamic World Strategic Vision Group, so I think we can use Jimmy's well-timed pass to score well: spreading Wikimedia movement popularity throughout Russia and the Islamic world even further, helping in unblocking Turkey in the process.
"Imagine the world in which every human is a Wikimedian. That's my commitment!"
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/%C2%A0%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB.+79274158066%C2%A0/ skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
09.08.2018, 09:09, "Pine W" [email protected]:
Hi Farhad,
Thank you for your generosity with your time as you respond to the requests and new opportunities.
I like Andy's suggestions. Wikimedia Armenia crossed my mind also as potentially a good organization to contact for ideas, because I have the impression that they have a good (but not excessively close) relationship with their national government, and because they have a very successful Wikipedia Education Program.
Although there seem to be many opportunities for you in the short term, my guess is that you will be unable to take advantage of all of them, and that some that you try will be more successful than others. That is all okay.
Please avoid burning yourself out. Hopefully you can work at a pace that is reasonable for you and will lead to long-term successes. Also, hopefully you can find people who want to help you, and have the time and the skills to do so. You might try to contact people that you have met on-wiki who could help you as you consider the opportunities and how you would like to move forward. I have the impression that you already know many Wikimedians who work on Russian Wikipedia, so hopefully you can get some help from them.
If you could share occasional updates about your progress, maybe by sending an email to Wikimedia-l with once per quarter, I think that at least a few people would be interested to read what you share.
Good luck,
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 8:55 PM, Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin < [email protected]> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
This is a request for your input and possible ideas (if any) regarding my management of the fallout from Jimmy's announcing myself as a 2018 Wikimedian of the Year.
Emails below are a copy of my ongoing consultations with Wikimedia Foundation staff and other Wikimedians I personally know, as well as a report on what's already brewing in my region of Russia after this unexpected outcome.
I would be grateful, if you can advise me on how to properly steer the enthusiasm of behalf of regional government, mass-media, NGOs, etc. which have just discovered about the possibility of participation in Wikimedia movement (think anything from U.S. is not getting much in-depth coverage in Russian by sources that regional public figures, NGOs, teachers or general regional journalists read) & are now placing great hopes on teaching whole of Tatarstan about how to Wiki & also engaging all Tatars globally (3/4 outside of Tatarstan, 1/5 outside of Russia).
regards, farhad
_______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
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Dear colleagues,
On Monday, our high school Senior User:Тимерхан & myself met with the First President of Tatarstan, State Councillor of the Republic of Tatarstan, UNESCO Special Envoy on Intercultural Dialogue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mintimer_Shaimiev where I received an unexpected offer to think about launching a Wiki-program on a publicly funded Tatar language satellite TV channel, and a request to prepare for a meeting with a group of regional ministers (tentatively end of October) and whomever I would like to invite if I can figure out how they can be of help in speeding up penetration of Wikimedia projects & respective skills into the mindustry of peopl having something with respective fields.
This was the outcome of a two hour long conversation with the 81 y.o. elder statesman was around Tatar Wikipedia, growing Wikimedia movement in the region, using it as a channel to promote knowledge about cultural heritage, lifelong open learning and other issues related to my upcoming presentation at CEE Meeting 2018 in Lviv https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2018/Programme/Submiss... and lightning talks there.
The invitation came on the Friday afternoon, so I was a little tense over the weekend but we managed OK
Today Russian Wikinews published our report on 1st of October meeting with Mintimer Shaimiev https://ru.wikinews.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%8... See all pictures from the meeting among my uploads via https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListFiles/Frhdkazan
The working title of "Preparing the population of Tatarstan and the Tatar speaking world for living in the Industry 4.0 Global Economy: What Wikimedia projects have to offer". I have not yet have the time to identify which ministries, departments and other organizations (Tatmedia, National Museum, National Library, Regional TV & Radio company, etc.) are worth to be invited, so here I would very much welcome your recommendation — it's a balancing act as we are limited on the volunteer time to adequately support each of these players, but we certainly don't want to miss those capable of demonstrating interesting results relatively quickly.
Tatarstan Deputy Prime-Minister - Minister for ICT Roman Shaykhutdinov has today inquired about possibility of engaging myself to deliver lectures on Advanced Uses of Wiki (I guess it's best to engage volunteers with extensive experience of presenting at various Wiki-conferences, Russian-speaking ones first of all). As for the open to the public introductory level wiki-seminar about Wiki and related practical Use Cases from various countries about using it in Education, GLAM, Wikidata applications, etc. - with speakers connecting over the video-conference & simultaneous interpretation support - it's offered to be organized locally in an IT-Park in a downtown Kazan during the last week of November (I guess WMF staff would be best able to help me with identifying most appropriate Use Cases and international volunteers that were responsible for their implementation, plus we'd have to figure out the schedule for their connection & possible overall routing - we might have plenty of folks around the world to benefit from this video-conference, as well as professional Russian-speaking simultaneous interpretation of the presentations). Plus Roman invited local Tatar Wikimedians to include two Russian-speaking schools into the pilot run.
I would go about translating the above Wikinews into Tatar & English (as well as the report on 2018 Wikimedia Conference Russia https://ru.wikinews.org/?curid=185095 sometime next week — as I have to finish my presentation plan and slides for 2018 CEE Meeting shortly.
Regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/%C2%A0%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB.+79274158066%C2%A0/ skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
04.09.2018, 07:16, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" [email protected]:
http://mic.tatarstan.ru/rus/index.htm/news/1273420.htm
It's probably the first time regional government website in the Russian Federation quoted Russian Wikinews article https://ru.wikinews.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5_%D1%... ― only the part about Republic of Tatarstan government portal http://www.tatarstan.ru/ and its subdomains now being available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International is mentioned, the part about local seminar initiative to be dedicated to Education, GLAM etc. was left out, but their press-service made the day of Russian Wikinews community by also being attentive to proper attribution.
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/%C2%A0%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB.+79274158066%C2%A0/ skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
29.08.2018, 20:56, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" [email protected]:
Dear colleagues,
Since yesterday all subdomains hosted @ http://tatarstan.ru/ (including websites of the http://president.tatarstan.ru/, the Cabinet http://prav.tatarstan.ru/, ministries/departments, state-owned organizations, municipalities and Representative offices of the Republic around Russia and abroad) moved to Creative Commons Attribution. The only exceptions are those of the First (ex-) President & the Parliament, that already had their own unique type free licenses (in Russian, non-standard).
Russian Wikinews requested me to draft an article & my counterparty at the Regional Ministry of InfoComm has gladly approved. I will probably need to find time for that today. That was the easy part. Some context: Russian President, Executive Branch of the Federal Government, both Chambers of the Federal Parliament, etc. are using Creative Commons Attribution for a while now, thanks to Senior Volunteers efforts of Wikimedia Russia members. I just communicated the benefits of this to the Regional (Republic of Tatarstan) Deputy Prime-Minister https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Shaykhutdinov, head of the regional infocomm department & he championed it far and wide within his area of responsibility.
I started engaging high-school & university students into helping the Infocomm ministry people to learn what is Wikimedia like & how it works - Deputy Prime-Minister is interested in anything that can benefit Education, Heritage Outreach, etc. development in the region & help in making culture of the Republic better known globally & promote Tatar language use online (Wikidata, GLAM, etc.). Another minister I met is excited with examples of Greek school children https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/July_2017/A_class_of_26_8... & youth in Italy http://www.rivistabricks.it/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/BRICKS_4_2017.pdf & other places develop critical thinking and develop immunity to mass & social media stories painting the world black & white as they please (stories from any outlets, including the BBC or New York Times, have to be taken with a pinch of salt - there's no unbiased human). In parallel, we are starting a cooperation with private Cambridge International school in Kazan http://school.balacity.ru/ (the founders & the director know me, invited me for cooperation, key contact person was part of the meeting, I provided necessary initial links). I know that our youth is now inspired to organize a User Group, report on their Spring & Summer efforts at Wikimedia Conference Russia this September & take their existing Selet WikiSchool project even higher. https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/May_2018/Selet_WikiSchool , more stories coming.
Last night WMF Partnerships agreed to support me in organizing a videoconference type seminar with best practices in Education/GLAM/Heritage promotion/Wikidata/etc. to explain locals about how great is the Wikimedia movement (something mainly unheard of in Russia, even though Wikipedia is actually used). I would love to have you, my dear international colleagues, to find time to connect and give a video talk on some Use Case implementation during the upcoming public seminar, organized in conjunction with Tatarstan InfoComm ministry (whenever we get the dates they will be able to gather local crowd in the IT-Park in downtown Kazan). I will take care of the simultaneous interpretation — all the necessary equipment is there, so I'll try to find the funding & qualified people.
In parallel I'll continue working on organizing a short in-person version at WMF Headquarters for the President of the Republic, if and when we can fit it into his schedule (Tatarstan Deputy Prime-Minister - Regional Minister for InfoComm wanted this to take place during one of the annual regional government delegation visits to California). President Minnikhanov is a co-chair of the Association of Innovative Regions of Russia, as well as Russia-Islamic World Strategic Vision Group, so I think we can use Jimmy's well-timed pass to score well: spreading Wikimedia movement popularity throughout Russia and the Islamic world even further, helping in unblocking Turkey in the process.
"Imagine the world in which every human is a Wikimedian. That's my commitment!"
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/%C2%A0%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB.+79274158066%C2%A0/ skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
09.08.2018, 09:09, "Pine W" [email protected]:
Hi Farhad,
Thank you for your generosity with your time as you respond to the requests and new opportunities.
I like Andy's suggestions. Wikimedia Armenia crossed my mind also as potentially a good organization to contact for ideas, because I have the impression that they have a good (but not excessively close) relationship with their national government, and because they have a very successful Wikipedia Education Program.
Although there seem to be many opportunities for you in the short term, my guess is that you will be unable to take advantage of all of them, and that some that you try will be more successful than others. That is all okay.
Please avoid burning yourself out. Hopefully you can work at a pace that is reasonable for you and will lead to long-term successes. Also, hopefully you can find people who want to help you, and have the time and the skills to do so. You might try to contact people that you have met on-wiki who could help you as you consider the opportunities and how you would like to move forward. I have the impression that you already know many Wikimedians who work on Russian Wikipedia, so hopefully you can get some help from them.
If you could share occasional updates about your progress, maybe by sending an email to Wikimedia-l with once per quarter, I think that at least a few people would be interested to read what you share.
Good luck,
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 8:55 PM, Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin < [email protected]> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
This is a request for your input and possible ideas (if any) regarding my management of the fallout from Jimmy's announcing myself as a 2018 Wikimedian of the Year.
Emails below are a copy of my ongoing consultations with Wikimedia Foundation staff and other Wikimedians I personally know, as well as a report on what's already brewing in my region of Russia after this unexpected outcome.
I would be grateful, if you can advise me on how to properly steer the enthusiasm of behalf of regional government, mass-media, NGOs, etc. which have just discovered about the possibility of participation in Wikimedia movement (think anything from U.S. is not getting much in-depth coverage in Russian by sources that regional public figures, NGOs, teachers or general regional journalists read) & are now placing great hopes on teaching whole of Tatarstan about how to Wiki & also engaging all Tatars globally (3/4 outside of Tatarstan, 1/5 outside of Russia).
regards, farhad
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Hi Farhad,
I'm very impressed with your successes so far.
My main concern is how much of this you seem to be doing by yourself. I hope that you have a group of people who are collaborating with you so that you don't feel responsible for doing everything personally, and that you aren't putting yourself into personal financial difficulty due to the amount of time that you're spending on Wikimedia activities.
Regarding which people would be good to invite to a conference, I think that GLAM and educational organizations would be natural partners so I suggest starting with them.
WMF might be willing to provide you with some advice and/or funding for GLAM or education related work if you request it, although the wait times for WMF "Rapid Grants" funding seem to have become lengthy, so I suggest that if you want funding from that program that you should request it at least two full months in advance and not rely on receiving it in time for any particular deadline.
I'm glad to hear that you're participating in Wikimedia CEE and I hope that the affiliates in that group can provide you with good advice.
Best wishes,
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
Dear colleagues,
Below is my October activities report & description of upcoming events
1) On Oct.13-14 at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2018 we presented some of the things we are doing in Russia (FYI: without any WMF grants). See details at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/October_2018/Contents/Russia_...
2) On Oct.20 I had a two hour long meeting with the Deputy head of Tatarstan Presidential Adiministration responsible for internal policy http://president.tatarstan.ru/eng/apparat/structure?person_id=19792&depa... who officially invited me to engage Wikimedia Russia and other Wikimedia movement volunteers to develop "Smart wiki-region" roadmap for regional authorities throughout the Russian Federation to start learning about the Wikimedia movement and understanding how partnering therewith could be of mutual interests. This was a follow up of the Oct.1 meeting with Mintimer Shaimiev https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-October/091151.html, but mainly around my last year's musings I finally finished translating into English today @ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Frhdkazan/Wiki4RegionalDevt
3) On Oct.23 We have started growing the project on WMRU-wiki at https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BC%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0... (currently in Russian only), using also eponymous thread at [wikimedia-ru] mailing list (last message https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2018-November/004914.html ).
4) In mid-November we are expecting to have a presentation of the project and our domestic experience https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Selet_WikiSchool at the large meeting called on by the ex-President of Tatarstan, State Councillor to the Republic, UNESCO Special envoy for Intercultural Dialogue Mintimer Shaimiev http://shaimiev.tatarstan.ru/eng - with invitation of * First Deputy Head of the Tatarstan Presidential Administration (http://president.tatarstan.ru/eng/apparat/structure?person_id=32&departm...), * a large body of regional ministers ** Tatar community affairs http://prav.tatarstan.ru/eng/pravit/3.htm ** Education and science http://mon.tatarstan.ru/eng/rukov/minister.htm ** ICT http://mic.tatarstan.ru/eng/minister.htm ** Culture http://mincult.tatarstan.ru/eng/rukov/minister.htm ** Youth affairs http://prav.tatarstan.ru/rus/pravit/ministr-min-molodezhi * head of regional media holding http://tatmedia.tatarstan.ru/eng/director.htm * head of the Institute of Tatar encyclopedia http://antat.ru/ru/ite/staff/5679/ * head of the House of Friendship of Nations of Tatarstan http://addnt.ru/house/management/director/
5) Tomorrow morning I will be meeting with the Vice-Primier - Minister for the ICT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Shaykhutdinov for preliminary discussions, then my high-school senior Timerkhan https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%... will assist him the next day at the preparatory meeting with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mintimer_Shaimiev.
6) I didn't yet have time to think in detail about the potential schedule or invited participants of the first public Wiki-seminar in Tatarstan, meant to expose locals to the Wikimedia movement and its best practices even if only via the video-conference (which I mentioned in the previous update), because I am doing this in between of my rather demanding work and some limited family life. The topic will most likely surface among other things tomorrow.
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/%C2%A0%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB.+79274158066%C2%A0/ skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
04.10.2018, 08:32, "Pine W" [email protected]:
Hi Farhad,
I'm very impressed with your successes so far.
My main concern is how much of this you seem to be doing by yourself. I hope that you have a group of people who are collaborating with you so that you don't feel responsible for doing everything personally, and that you aren't putting yourself into personal financial difficulty due to the amount of time that you're spending on Wikimedia activities.
Regarding which people would be good to invite to a conference, I think that GLAM and educational organizations would be natural partners so I suggest starting with them.
WMF might be willing to provide you with some advice and/or funding for GLAM or education related work if you request it, although the wait times for WMF "Rapid Grants" funding seem to have become lengthy, so I suggest that if you want funding from that program that you should request it at least two full months in advance and not rely on receiving it in time for any particular deadline.
I'm glad to hear that you're participating in Wikimedia CEE and I hope that the affiliates in that group can provide you with good advice.
Best wishes,
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
Dear colleagues,
This is a heads-up on the fact that on Jan.29 I will be speaking in Tatar (with simultaneous interpretation of my words into Russian) at the Republic of Tatarstan Ministry for ICT closing conference for 2018 in front of the President of the Republic, Russia's Federal minister for ICT, members of Tatarstan government, industry & the press, possibly some participants from nearby regional ministries.
I will have some 7-10 min to present on https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Smart_region , rough English translation for the base page completed today.
It will be a basic intro level talk accompanied by slides about some things that can be appropriately mentioned without overburdening the public hearing about Wiki-community activities for the first time in their lives. I will email you draft text around the end of the week (once I am comfortable with it), with some ideas on the slides I will play along my speech and a list of recommended follow-on measures.
Expected outcome: Presidential instruction to the Tatarstan government to for a cross-departmental working group to study what ICT ministry led Wikimedia working group (since August 2018) has came up with & look into possible way of integrating this into Tatarstan social life (I was offered to formulate it myself today).
Other related Wikimedia Russia news:
* On or around Feb.8, we are to have first follow-on introduction of Wikipedia Education Program to wider professors & students' body of Kazan Federal University Institute for International Relations, with director of which we had a productive meeting on Dec.21, following the events described in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/December_2018/Contents/Russia...
* On Feb.28-March 1 we are invited to field speakers for http://eduforumkazan.ru/ (attended by Russia's Federal Minister for Education and her team)
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/%C2%A0%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB.+79274158066%C2%A0/ skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
05.11.2018, 17:22, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" [email protected]:
Dear colleagues,
Below is my October activities report & description of upcoming events
On Oct.13-14 at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2018 we presented some of the things we are doing in Russia (FYI: without any WMF grants). See details at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/October_2018/Contents/Russia_...
On Oct.20 I had a two hour long meeting with the Deputy head of Tatarstan Presidential Adiministration responsible for internal policy http://president.tatarstan.ru/eng/apparat/structure?person_id=19792&depa... who officially invited me to engage Wikimedia Russia and other Wikimedia movement volunteers to develop "Smart wiki-region" roadmap for regional authorities throughout the Russian Federation to start learning about the Wikimedia movement and understanding how partnering therewith could be of mutual interests. This was a follow up of the Oct.1 meeting with Mintimer Shaimiev https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-October/091151.html, but mainly around my last year's musings I finally finished translating into English today @ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Frhdkazan/Wiki4RegionalDevt
On Oct.23 We have started growing the project on WMRU-wiki at https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BC%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0... (currently in Russian only), using also eponymous thread at [wikimedia-ru] mailing list (last message https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2018-November/004914.html ).
In mid-November we are expecting to have a presentation of the project and our domestic experience https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Selet_WikiSchool at the large meeting called on by the ex-President of Tatarstan, State Councillor to the Republic, UNESCO Special envoy for Intercultural Dialogue Mintimer Shaimiev http://shaimiev.tatarstan.ru/eng - with invitation of
- First Deputy Head of the Tatarstan Presidential Administration (http://president.tatarstan.ru/eng/apparat/structure?person_id=32&departm...),
- a large body of regional ministers
** Tatar community affairs http://prav.tatarstan.ru/eng/pravit/3.htm ** Education and science http://mon.tatarstan.ru/eng/rukov/minister.htm ** ICT http://mic.tatarstan.ru/eng/minister.htm ** Culture http://mincult.tatarstan.ru/eng/rukov/minister.htm ** Youth affairs http://prav.tatarstan.ru/rus/pravit/ministr-min-molodezhi
- head of regional media holding http://tatmedia.tatarstan.ru/eng/director.htm
- head of the Institute of Tatar encyclopedia http://antat.ru/ru/ite/staff/5679/
- head of the House of Friendship of Nations of Tatarstan http://addnt.ru/house/management/director/
Tomorrow morning I will be meeting with the Vice-Primier - Minister for the ICT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Shaykhutdinov for preliminary discussions, then my high-school senior Timerkhan https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%... will assist him the next day at the preparatory meeting with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mintimer_Shaimiev.
I didn't yet have time to think in detail about the potential schedule or invited participants of the first public Wiki-seminar in Tatarstan, meant to expose locals to the Wikimedia movement and its best practices even if only via the video-conference (which I mentioned in the previous update), because I am doing this in between of my rather demanding work and some limited family life. The topic will most likely surface among other things tomorrow.
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/%C2%A0%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB.+79274158066%C2%A0/ skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
04.10.2018, 08:32, "Pine W" [email protected]:
Hi Farhad,
I'm very impressed with your successes so far.
My main concern is how much of this you seem to be doing by yourself. I hope that you have a group of people who are collaborating with you so that you don't feel responsible for doing everything personally, and that you aren't putting yourself into personal financial difficulty due to the amount of time that you're spending on Wikimedia activities.
Regarding which people would be good to invite to a conference, I think that GLAM and educational organizations would be natural partners so I suggest starting with them.
WMF might be willing to provide you with some advice and/or funding for GLAM or education related work if you request it, although the wait times for WMF "Rapid Grants" funding seem to have become lengthy, so I suggest that if you want funding from that program that you should request it at least two full months in advance and not rely on receiving it in time for any particular deadline.
I'm glad to hear that you're participating in Wikimedia CEE and I hope that the affiliates in that group can provide you with good advice.
Best wishes,
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
Wow Farkhad, ideally we will be with you.
Camelia
On Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 5:10 PM Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin < [email protected] wrote:
Dear colleagues,
This is a heads-up on the fact that on Jan.29 I will be speaking in Tatar (with simultaneous interpretation of my words into Russian) at the Republic of Tatarstan Ministry for ICT closing conference for 2018 in front of the President of the Republic, Russia's Federal minister for ICT, members of Tatarstan government, industry & the press, possibly some participants from nearby regional ministries.
I will have some 7-10 min to present on https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Smart_region , rough English translation for the base page completed today.
It will be a basic intro level talk accompanied by slides about some things that can be appropriately mentioned without overburdening the public hearing about Wiki-community activities for the first time in their lives. I will email you draft text around the end of the week (once I am comfortable with it), with some ideas on the slides I will play along my speech and a list of recommended follow-on measures.
Expected outcome: Presidential instruction to the Tatarstan government to for a cross-departmental working group to study what ICT ministry led Wikimedia working group (since August 2018) has came up with & look into possible way of integrating this into Tatarstan social life (I was offered to formulate it myself today).
Other related Wikimedia Russia news:
- On or around Feb.8, we are to have first follow-on introduction of
Wikipedia Education Program to wider professors & students' body of Kazan Federal University Institute for International Relations, with director of which we had a productive meeting on Dec.21, following the events described in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/December_2018/Contents/Russia...
- On Feb.28-March 1 we are invited to field speakers for
http://eduforumkazan.ru/ (attended by Russia's Federal Minister for Education and her team)
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 / skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
05.11.2018, 17:22, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" <[email protected]
: Dear colleagues,
Below is my October activities report & description of upcoming events
- On Oct.13-14 at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2018 we presented some of the things we are doing in Russia (FYI: without any WMF grants). See details at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/October_2018/Contents/Russia_...
- On Oct.20 I had a two hour long meeting with the Deputy head of
Tatarstan Presidential Adiministration responsible for internal policy http://president.tatarstan.ru/eng/apparat/structure?person_id=19792&depa... who officially invited me to engage Wikimedia Russia and other Wikimedia movement volunteers to develop "Smart wiki-region" roadmap for regional authorities throughout the Russian Federation to start learning about the Wikimedia movement and understanding how partnering therewith could be of mutual interests. This was a follow up of the Oct.1 meeting with Mintimer Shaimiev https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-October/091151.html, but mainly around my last year's musings I finally finished translating into English today @ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Frhdkazan/Wiki4RegionalDevt
- On Oct.23 We have started growing the project on WMRU-wiki at
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BC%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0... (currently in Russian only), using also eponymous thread at [wikimedia-ru] mailing list (last message https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2018-November/004914.html ).
- In mid-November we are expecting to have a presentation of the
project and our domestic experience https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Selet_WikiSchool at the large meeting called on by the ex-President of Tatarstan, State Councillor to the Republic, UNESCO Special envoy for Intercultural Dialogue Mintimer Shaimiev http://shaimiev.tatarstan.ru/eng - with invitation of
- First Deputy Head of the Tatarstan Presidential Administration (
http://president.tatarstan.ru/eng/apparat/structure?person_id=32&departm... ),
- a large body of regional ministers
** Tatar community affairs http://prav.tatarstan.ru/eng/pravit/3.htm ** Education and science http://mon.tatarstan.ru/eng/rukov/minister.htm ** ICT http://mic.tatarstan.ru/eng/minister.htm ** Culture http://mincult.tatarstan.ru/eng/rukov/minister.htm ** Youth affairs
http://prav.tatarstan.ru/rus/pravit/ministr-min-molodezhi
- head of regional media holding
http://tatmedia.tatarstan.ru/eng/director.htm
- head of the Institute of Tatar encyclopedia
http://antat.ru/ru/ite/staff/5679/
- head of the House of Friendship of Nations of Tatarstan
http://addnt.ru/house/management/director/
- Tomorrow morning I will be meeting with the Vice-Primier - Minister
for the ICT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Shaykhutdinov for preliminary discussions, then my high-school senior Timerkhan https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%... will assist him the next day at the preparatory meeting with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mintimer_Shaimiev.
- I didn't yet have time to think in detail about the potential
schedule or invited participants of the first public Wiki-seminar in Tatarstan, meant to expose locals to the Wikimedia movement and its best practices even if only via the video-conference (which I mentioned in the previous update), because I am doing this in between of my rather demanding work and some limited family life. The topic will most likely surface among other things tomorrow.
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 /
skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
04.10.2018, 08:32, "Pine W" [email protected]:
Hi Farhad,
I'm very impressed with your successes so far.
My main concern is how much of this you seem to be doing by yourself. I hope that you have a group of people who are collaborating with you so
that
you don't feel responsible for doing everything personally, and that
you
aren't putting yourself into personal financial difficulty due to the amount of time that you're spending on Wikimedia activities.
Regarding which people would be good to invite to a conference, I think that GLAM and educational organizations would be natural partners so I suggest starting with them.
WMF might be willing to provide you with some advice and/or funding for GLAM or education related work if you request it, although the wait
times
for WMF "Rapid Grants" funding seem to have become lengthy, so I
suggest
that if you want funding from that program that you should request it
at
least two full months in advance and not rely on receiving it in time
for
any particular deadline.
I'm glad to hear that you're participating in Wikimedia CEE and I hope
that
the affiliates in that group can provide you with good advice.
Best wishes,
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l
New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l,
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Dear colleagues,
You can track my preparation in English @ https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BC%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0... (date move to accommodate VIP participants' schedules).
I had to skim my original 18 minute text to under 7.
I intend to touch on most of what had to go via the Slides which will accompany my talk.
Tatar components will be prepared last, as Russian and English are best tools for getting feedback from across the Wiki-world.
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/%C2%A0%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB.+79274158066%C2%A0/ skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
14.01.2019, 19:10, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" [email protected]:
Dear colleagues,
This is a heads-up on the fact that on Jan.29 I will be speaking in Tatar (with simultaneous interpretation of my words into Russian) at the Republic of Tatarstan Ministry for ICT closing conference for 2018 in front of the President of the Republic, Russia's Federal minister for ICT, members of Tatarstan government, industry & the press, possibly some participants from nearby regional ministries.
I will have some 7-10 min to present on https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Smart_region , rough English translation for the base page completed today.
It will be a basic intro level talk accompanied by slides about some things that can be appropriately mentioned without overburdening the public hearing about Wiki-community activities for the first time in their lives. I will email you draft text around the end of the week (once I am comfortable with it), with some ideas on the slides I will play along my speech and a list of recommended follow-on measures.
Expected outcome: Presidential instruction to the Tatarstan government to for a cross-departmental working group to study what ICT ministry led Wikimedia working group (since August 2018) has came up with & look into possible way of integrating this into Tatarstan social life (I was offered to formulate it myself today).
Other related Wikimedia Russia news:
On or around Feb.8, we are to have first follow-on introduction of Wikipedia Education Program to wider professors & students' body of Kazan Federal University Institute for International Relations, with director of which we had a productive meeting on Dec.21, following the events described in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/December_2018/Contents/Russia...
On Feb.28-March 1 we are invited to field speakers for http://eduforumkazan.ru/ (attended by Russia's Federal Minister for Education and her team)
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/%C2%A0%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB.+79274158066%C2%A0/ skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
05.11.2018, 17:22, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" [email protected]:
Dear colleagues,
Below is my October activities report & description of upcoming events
1) On Oct.13-14 at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2018 we presented some of the things we are doing in Russia (FYI: without any WMF grants). See details at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/October_2018/Contents/Russia_...
2) On Oct.20 I had a two hour long meeting with the Deputy head of Tatarstan Presidential Adiministration responsible for internal policy http://president.tatarstan.ru/eng/apparat/structure?person_id=19792&depa... who officially invited me to engage Wikimedia Russia and other Wikimedia movement volunteers to develop "Smart wiki-region" roadmap for regional authorities throughout the Russian Federation to start learning about the Wikimedia movement and understanding how partnering therewith could be of mutual interests. This was a follow up of the Oct.1 meeting with Mintimer Shaimiev https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-October/091151.html, but mainly around my last year's musings I finally finished translating into English today @ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Frhdkazan/Wiki4RegionalDevt
3) On Oct.23 We have started growing the project on WMRU-wiki at https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BC%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0... (currently in Russian only), using also eponymous thread at [wikimedia-ru] mailing list (last message https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2018-November/004914.html ).
4) In mid-November we are expecting to have a presentation of the project and our domestic experience https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Selet_WikiSchool at the large meeting called on by the ex-President of Tatarstan, State Councillor to the Republic, UNESCO Special envoy for Intercultural Dialogue Mintimer Shaimiev http://shaimiev.tatarstan.ru/eng - with invitation of * First Deputy Head of the Tatarstan Presidential Administration (http://president.tatarstan.ru/eng/apparat/structure?person_id=32&departm...), * a large body of regional ministers ** Tatar community affairs http://prav.tatarstan.ru/eng/pravit/3.htm ** Education and science http://mon.tatarstan.ru/eng/rukov/minister.htm ** ICT http://mic.tatarstan.ru/eng/minister.htm ** Culture http://mincult.tatarstan.ru/eng/rukov/minister.htm ** Youth affairs http://prav.tatarstan.ru/rus/pravit/ministr-min-molodezhi * head of regional media holding http://tatmedia.tatarstan.ru/eng/director.htm * head of the Institute of Tatar encyclopedia http://antat.ru/ru/ite/staff/5679/ * head of the House of Friendship of Nations of Tatarstan http://addnt.ru/house/management/director/
5) Tomorrow morning I will be meeting with the Vice-Primier - Minister for the ICT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Shaykhutdinov for preliminary discussions, then my high-school senior Timerkhan https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%... will assist him the next day at the preparatory meeting with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mintimer_Shaimiev.
6) I didn't yet have time to think in detail about the potential schedule or invited participants of the first public Wiki-seminar in Tatarstan, meant to expose locals to the Wikimedia movement and its best practices even if only via the video-conference (which I mentioned in the previous update), because I am doing this in between of my rather demanding work and some limited family life. The topic will most likely surface among other things tomorrow.
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/%C2%A0%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB.+79274158066%C2%A0/ skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
04.10.2018, 08:32, "Pine W" [email protected]:
Hi Farhad,
I'm very impressed with your successes so far.
My main concern is how much of this you seem to be doing by yourself. I hope that you have a group of people who are collaborating with you so that you don't feel responsible for doing everything personally, and that you aren't putting yourself into personal financial difficulty due to the amount of time that you're spending on Wikimedia activities.
Regarding which people would be good to invite to a conference, I think that GLAM and educational organizations would be natural partners so I suggest starting with them.
WMF might be willing to provide you with some advice and/or funding for GLAM or education related work if you request it, although the wait times for WMF "Rapid Grants" funding seem to have become lengthy, so I suggest that if you want funding from that program that you should request it at least two full months in advance and not rely on receiving it in time for any particular deadline.
I'm glad to hear that you're participating in Wikimedia CEE and I hope that the affiliates in that group can provide you with good advice.
Best wishes,
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
Some news:
I managed to get vocal approval of the proposal to transfer Wiki-competencies to Tatarstan public by Federal Deputy Prime-Minister Maxim Akimov and had Regional President Rustam Minnikhanov express his invitation to the subject-minister (Vice Prime-Minister of Tatarstan - InfoComm minister Roman Shaykhutdinov) to prepare necessary proposals for organizing the process in a successful scalable way. I will have to do more thinking and writing now so as to try have this implemented first in my Republic, then across Russia.
I was given less than a minute during pre-Conference tour of the project stands prepared by corporations and state enterprises (without slides or any visual support), so I had to skim to the very facts and the value proposition that would get their attention.
On a more tangible side, https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Selet_WikiSchool that I started back in 2016, will get support from the regional budget & thus expand. Currently this is on the shoulders of a team consisting of high-school senior, a University freshman and a sophomore/junior from one rural school.
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/%C2%A0%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB.+79274158066%C2%A0/ skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
17.01.2019, 18:35, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" [email protected]:
Dear colleagues,
You can track my preparation in English @ https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BC%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0... (date move to accommodate VIP participants' schedules).
I had to skim my original 18 minute text to under 7.
I intend to touch on most of what had to go via the Slides which will accompany my talk.
Tatar components will be prepared last, as Russian and English are best tools for getting feedback from across the Wiki-world.
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/%C2%A0%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB.+79274158066%C2%A0/ skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
14.01.2019, 19:10, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" [email protected]:
Dear colleagues,
This is a heads-up on the fact that on Jan.29 I will be speaking in Tatar (with simultaneous interpretation of my words into Russian) at the Republic of Tatarstan Ministry for ICT closing conference for 2018 in front of the President of the Republic, Russia's Federal minister for ICT, members of Tatarstan government, industry & the press, possibly some participants from nearby regional ministries.
I will have some 7-10 min to present on https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Smart_region , rough English translation for the base page completed today.
It will be a basic intro level talk accompanied by slides about some things that can be appropriately mentioned without overburdening the public hearing about Wiki-community activities for the first time in their lives. I will email you draft text around the end of the week (once I am comfortable with it), with some ideas on the slides I will play along my speech and a list of recommended follow-on measures.
Expected outcome: Presidential instruction to the Tatarstan government to for a cross-departmental working group to study what ICT ministry led Wikimedia working group (since August 2018) has came up with & look into possible way of integrating this into Tatarstan social life (I was offered to formulate it myself today).
Other related Wikimedia Russia news:
* On or around Feb.8, we are to have first follow-on introduction of Wikipedia Education Program to wider professors & students' body of Kazan Federal University Institute for International Relations, with director of which we had a productive meeting on Dec.21, following the events described in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/December_2018/Contents/Russia...
* On Feb.28-March 1 we are invited to field speakers for http://eduforumkazan.ru/ (attended by Russia's Federal Minister for Education and her team)
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/%C2%A0%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB.+79274158066%C2%A0/ skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
05.11.2018, 17:22, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" [email protected]:
Dear colleagues,
Below is my October activities report & description of upcoming events
1) On Oct.13-14 at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2018 we presented some of the things we are doing in Russia (FYI: without any WMF grants). See details at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/October_2018/Contents/Russia_...
2) On Oct.20 I had a two hour long meeting with the Deputy head of Tatarstan Presidential Adiministration responsible for internal policy http://president.tatarstan.ru/eng/apparat/structure?person_id=19792&depa... who officially invited me to engage Wikimedia Russia and other Wikimedia movement volunteers to develop "Smart wiki-region" roadmap for regional authorities throughout the Russian Federation to start learning about the Wikimedia movement and understanding how partnering therewith could be of mutual interests. This was a follow up of the Oct.1 meeting with Mintimer Shaimiev https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-October/091151.html, but mainly around my last year's musings I finally finished translating into English today @ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Frhdkazan/Wiki4RegionalDevt
3) On Oct.23 We have started growing the project on WMRU-wiki at https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BC%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0... (currently in Russian only), using also eponymous thread at [wikimedia-ru] mailing list (last message https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2018-November/004914.html ).
4) In mid-November we are expecting to have a presentation of the project and our domestic experience https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Selet_WikiSchool at the large meeting called on by the ex-President of Tatarstan, State Councillor to the Republic, UNESCO Special envoy for Intercultural Dialogue Mintimer Shaimiev http://shaimiev.tatarstan.ru/eng - with invitation of * First Deputy Head of the Tatarstan Presidential Administration (http://president.tatarstan.ru/eng/apparat/structure?person_id=32&departm...), * a large body of regional ministers ** Tatar community affairs http://prav.tatarstan.ru/eng/pravit/3.htm ** Education and science http://mon.tatarstan.ru/eng/rukov/minister.htm ** ICT http://mic.tatarstan.ru/eng/minister.htm ** Culture http://mincult.tatarstan.ru/eng/rukov/minister.htm ** Youth affairs http://prav.tatarstan.ru/rus/pravit/ministr-min-molodezhi * head of regional media holding http://tatmedia.tatarstan.ru/eng/director.htm * head of the Institute of Tatar encyclopedia http://antat.ru/ru/ite/staff/5679/ * head of the House of Friendship of Nations of Tatarstan http://addnt.ru/house/management/director/
5) Tomorrow morning I will be meeting with the Vice-Primier - Minister for the ICT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Shaykhutdinov for preliminary discussions, then my high-school senior Timerkhan https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%... will assist him the next day at the preparatory meeting with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mintimer_Shaimiev.
6) I didn't yet have time to think in detail about the potential schedule or invited participants of the first public Wiki-seminar in Tatarstan, meant to expose locals to the Wikimedia movement and its best practices even if only via the video-conference (which I mentioned in the previous update), because I am doing this in between of my rather demanding work and some limited family life. The topic will most likely surface among other things tomorrow.
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/%C2%A0%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB.+79274158066%C2%A0/ skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
04.10.2018, 08:32, "Pine W" [email protected]:
Hi Farhad,
I'm very impressed with your successes so far.
My main concern is how much of this you seem to be doing by yourself. I hope that you have a group of people who are collaborating with you so that you don't feel responsible for doing everything personally, and that you aren't putting yourself into personal financial difficulty due to the amount of time that you're spending on Wikimedia activities.
Regarding which people would be good to invite to a conference, I think that GLAM and educational organizations would be natural partners so I suggest starting with them.
WMF might be willing to provide you with some advice and/or funding for GLAM or education related work if you request it, although the wait times for WMF "Rapid Grants" funding seem to have become lengthy, so I suggest that if you want funding from that program that you should request it at least two full months in advance and not rely on receiving it in time for any particular deadline.
I'm glad to hear that you're participating in Wikimedia CEE and I hope that the affiliates in that group can provide you with good advice.
Best wishes,
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
Regional department of education (elementary & secondary education) & Kazan Federal University today received instructions signed by the President of Tatarstan on integrating Wikimedia Education Program opportunities into the curricula of educational establishments of the Republic. I was asked for some guidance on the topic before tonight, so prepared what I could in Russian https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2019-April/005086.html We are in the country with a centralized education system culture, so project owner will be the ministry, with Wikimedians serving as stakeholders, consultants & guides.
On March 1st we fielded 2 speakers for EDU RUSSIA 2019 conference https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/February_2019/Contents/Russia...
On April 11-12 our Bashkir colleagues (WUG BAK) were invited to speak @ their regional teachers' conference (photoes & report in Russian - https://ru.wikinews.org/wiki/?curid=221169 ) & their regional deputy minister recalled our speakers in Kazan
Right now our judges are checking some 200 pre-qualified ttWP articles created by 67 previously untrained school teams in the framework of Tatar 4.0 contest. Prizes provided by local partner, introduction to the contest video, Messenger support, participant & article tagging, prequalification & assessing on volunteering time. 10 best teams to be publicly awarded at Ğabdulla Tuqay memorial event downtown Kazan on April 26. Contest in Tatar - https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82:%D0%A2%D0... Lessons learnt in Russian - https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BC%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0...
This all follows our February presentation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/February_2019/Contents/Russia...
regards, farhad
-- Farhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/%C2%A0%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB.+79274158066%C2%A0/ skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan / Wikidata:Q34036417
08.02.2019, 22:23, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" [email protected]:
Some news:
I managed to get vocal approval of the proposal to transfer Wiki-competencies to Tatarstan public by Federal Deputy Prime-Minister Maxim Akimov and had Regional President Rustam Minnikhanov express his invitation to the subject-minister (Vice Prime-Minister of Tatarstan - InfoComm minister Roman Shaykhutdinov) to prepare necessary proposals for organizing the process in a successful scalable way. I will have to do more thinking and writing now so as to try have this implemented first in my Republic, then across Russia.
I was given less than a minute during pre-Conference tour of the project stands prepared by corporations and state enterprises (without slides or any visual support), so I had to skim to the very facts and the value proposition that would get their attention.
On a more tangible side, https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Selet_WikiSchool that I started back in 2016, will get support from the regional budget & thus expand. Currently this is on the shoulders of a team consisting of high-school senior, a University freshman and a sophomore/junior from one rural school.
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/%C2%A0%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB.+79274158066%C2%A0/ skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
17.01.2019, 18:35, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" [email protected]:
Dear colleagues,
You can track my preparation in English @ https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BC%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0... (date move to accommodate VIP participants' schedules).
I had to skim my original 18 minute text to under 7.
I intend to touch on most of what had to go via the Slides which will accompany my talk.
Tatar components will be prepared last, as Russian and English are best tools for getting feedback from across the Wiki-world.
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/%C2%A0%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB.+79274158066%C2%A0/ skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
14.01.2019, 19:10, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" [email protected]:
Dear colleagues,
This is a heads-up on the fact that on Jan.29 I will be speaking in Tatar (with simultaneous interpretation of my words into Russian) at the Republic of Tatarstan Ministry for ICT closing conference for 2018 in front of the President of the Republic, Russia's Federal minister for ICT, members of Tatarstan government, industry & the press, possibly some participants from nearby regional ministries.
I will have some 7-10 min to present on https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Smart_region , rough English translation for the base page completed today.
It will be a basic intro level talk accompanied by slides about some things that can be appropriately mentioned without overburdening the public hearing about Wiki-community activities for the first time in their lives. I will email you draft text around the end of the week (once I am comfortable with it), with some ideas on the slides I will play along my speech and a list of recommended follow-on measures.
Expected outcome: Presidential instruction to the Tatarstan government to for a cross-departmental working group to study what ICT ministry led Wikimedia working group (since August 2018) has came up with & look into possible way of integrating this into Tatarstan social life (I was offered to formulate it myself today).
Other related Wikimedia Russia news:
* On or around Feb.8, we are to have first follow-on introduction of Wikipedia Education Program to wider professors & students' body of Kazan Federal University Institute for International Relations, with director of which we had a productive meeting on Dec.21, following the events described in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/December_2018/Contents/Russia...
* On Feb.28-March 1 we are invited to field speakers for http://eduforumkazan.ru/ (attended by Russia's Federal Minister for Education and her team)
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/%C2%A0%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB.+79274158066%C2%A0/ skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
05.11.2018, 17:22, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" [email protected]:
Dear colleagues,
Below is my October activities report & description of upcoming events
1) On Oct.13-14 at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2018 we presented some of the things we are doing in Russia (FYI: without any WMF grants). See details at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/October_2018/Contents/Russia_...
2) On Oct.20 I had a two hour long meeting with the Deputy head of Tatarstan Presidential Adiministration responsible for internal policy http://president.tatarstan.ru/eng/apparat/structure?person_id=19792&depa... who officially invited me to engage Wikimedia Russia and other Wikimedia movement volunteers to develop "Smart wiki-region" roadmap for regional authorities throughout the Russian Federation to start learning about the Wikimedia movement and understanding how partnering therewith could be of mutual interests. This was a follow up of the Oct.1 meeting with Mintimer Shaimiev https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-October/091151.html, but mainly around my last year's musings I finally finished translating into English today @ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Frhdkazan/Wiki4RegionalDevt
3) On Oct.23 We have started growing the project on WMRU-wiki at https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BC%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0... (currently in Russian only), using also eponymous thread at [wikimedia-ru] mailing list (last message https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2018-November/004914.html ).
4) In mid-November we are expecting to have a presentation of the project and our domestic experience https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Selet_WikiSchool at the large meeting called on by the ex-President of Tatarstan, State Councillor to the Republic, UNESCO Special envoy for Intercultural Dialogue Mintimer Shaimiev http://shaimiev.tatarstan.ru/eng - with invitation of * First Deputy Head of the Tatarstan Presidential Administration (http://president.tatarstan.ru/eng/apparat/structure?person_id=32&departm...), * a large body of regional ministers ** Tatar community affairs http://prav.tatarstan.ru/eng/pravit/3.htm ** Education and science http://mon.tatarstan.ru/eng/rukov/minister.htm ** ICT http://mic.tatarstan.ru/eng/minister.htm ** Culture http://mincult.tatarstan.ru/eng/rukov/minister.htm ** Youth affairs http://prav.tatarstan.ru/rus/pravit/ministr-min-molodezhi * head of regional media holding http://tatmedia.tatarstan.ru/eng/director.htm * head of the Institute of Tatar encyclopedia http://antat.ru/ru/ite/staff/5679/ * head of the House of Friendship of Nations of Tatarstan http://addnt.ru/house/management/director/
5) Tomorrow morning I will be meeting with the Vice-Primier - Minister for the ICT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Shaykhutdinov for preliminary discussions, then my high-school senior Timerkhan https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%... will assist him the next day at the preparatory meeting with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mintimer_Shaimiev.
6) I didn't yet have time to think in detail about the potential schedule or invited participants of the first public Wiki-seminar in Tatarstan, meant to expose locals to the Wikimedia movement and its best practices even if only via the video-conference (which I mentioned in the previous update), because I am doing this in between of my rather demanding work and some limited family life. The topic will most likely surface among other things tomorrow.
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/%C2%A0%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB.+79274158066%C2%A0/ skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
04.10.2018, 08:32, "Pine W" [email protected]:
Hi Farhad,
I'm very impressed with your successes so far.
My main concern is how much of this you seem to be doing by yourself. I hope that you have a group of people who are collaborating with you so that you don't feel responsible for doing everything personally, and that you aren't putting yourself into personal financial difficulty due to the amount of time that you're spending on Wikimedia activities.
Regarding which people would be good to invite to a conference, I think that GLAM and educational organizations would be natural partners so I suggest starting with them.
WMF might be willing to provide you with some advice and/or funding for GLAM or education related work if you request it, although the wait times for WMF "Rapid Grants" funding seem to have become lengthy, so I suggest that if you want funding from that program that you should request it at least two full months in advance and not rely on receiving it in time for any particular deadline.
I'm glad to hear that you're participating in Wikimedia CEE and I hope that the affiliates in that group can provide you with good advice.
Best wishes,
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
Farhad
I assume that under this arrangement, the editorial independence of the contributors and content will remain inviolable?
JPS
On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 5:22 PM Фархад Фаткуллин / Farhad Fatkullin < [email protected]> wrote:
Regional department of education (elementary & secondary education) & Kazan Federal University today received instructions signed by the President of Tatarstan on integrating Wikimedia Education Program opportunities into the curricula of educational establishments of the Republic. I was asked for some guidance on the topic before tonight, so prepared what I could in Russian https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2019-April/005086.html We are in the country with a centralized education system culture, so project owner will be the ministry, with Wikimedians serving as stakeholders, consultants & guides.
On March 1st we fielded 2 speakers for EDU RUSSIA 2019 conference
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/February_2019/Contents/Russia...
On April 11-12 our Bashkir colleagues (WUG BAK) were invited to speak @ their regional teachers' conference (photoes & report in Russian - https://ru.wikinews.org/wiki/?curid=221169 ) & their regional deputy minister recalled our speakers in Kazan
Right now our judges are checking some 200 pre-qualified ttWP articles created by 67 previously untrained school teams in the framework of Tatar 4.0 contest. Prizes provided by local partner, introduction to the contest video, Messenger support, participant & article tagging, prequalification & assessing on volunteering time. 10 best teams to be publicly awarded at Ğabdulla Tuqay memorial event downtown Kazan on April 26. Contest in Tatar - https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82:%D0%A2%D0... Lessons learnt in Russian - https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BC%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0...
This all follows our February presentation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/February_2019/Contents/Russia...
regards, farhad
-- Farhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 / skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan / Wikidata:Q34036417
08.02.2019, 22:23, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" <[email protected]
: Some news:
I managed to get vocal approval of the proposal to transfer
Wiki-competencies to Tatarstan public by Federal Deputy Prime-Minister Maxim Akimov and had Regional President Rustam Minnikhanov express his invitation to the subject-minister (Vice Prime-Minister of Tatarstan - InfoComm minister Roman Shaykhutdinov) to prepare necessary proposals for organizing the process in a successful scalable way. I will have to do more thinking and writing now so as to try have this implemented first in my Republic, then across Russia.
I was given less than a minute during pre-Conference tour of the project
stands prepared by corporations and state enterprises (without slides or any visual support), so I had to skim to the very facts and the value proposition that would get their attention.
On a more tangible side, https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Selet_WikiSchool
that I started back in 2016, will get support from the regional budget & thus expand. Currently this is on the shoulders of a team consisting of high-school senior, a University freshman and a sophomore/junior from one rural school.
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 /
skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
17.01.2019, 18:35, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" <
Dear colleagues,
You can track my preparation in English @
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BC%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0... (date move to accommodate VIP participants' schedules).
I had to skim my original 18 minute text to under 7.
I intend to touch on most of what had to go via the Slides which will
accompany my talk.
Tatar components will be prepared last, as Russian and English are
best tools for getting feedback from across the Wiki-world.
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 /
skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
14.01.2019, 19:10, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" <
Dear colleagues,
This is a heads-up on the fact that on Jan.29 I will be speaking in
Tatar (with simultaneous interpretation of my words into Russian) at the Republic of Tatarstan Ministry for ICT closing conference for 2018 in front of the President of the Republic, Russia's Federal minister for ICT, members of Tatarstan government, industry & the press, possibly some participants from nearby regional ministries.
I will have some 7-10 min to present on
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Smart_region , rough English translation for the base page completed today.
It will be a basic intro level talk accompanied by slides about
some things that can be appropriately mentioned without overburdening the public hearing about Wiki-community activities for the first time in their lives. I will email you draft text around the end of the week (once I am comfortable with it), with some ideas on the slides I will play along my speech and a list of recommended follow-on measures.
Expected outcome: Presidential instruction to the Tatarstan
government to for a cross-departmental working group to study what ICT ministry led Wikimedia working group (since August 2018) has came up with & look into possible way of integrating this into Tatarstan social life (I was offered to formulate it myself today).
Other related Wikimedia Russia news:
- On or around Feb.8, we are to have first follow-on introduction of
Wikipedia Education Program to wider professors & students' body of Kazan Federal University Institute for International Relations, with director of which we had a productive meeting on Dec.21, following the events described in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/December_2018/Contents/Russia...
- On Feb.28-March 1 we are invited to field speakers for
http://eduforumkazan.ru/ (attended by Russia's Federal Minister for Education and her team)
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 /
skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
05.11.2018, 17:22, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" <
Dear colleagues,
Below is my October activities report & description of upcoming
events
- On Oct.13-14 at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2018 we presented some of the things we are doing in Russia (FYI: without any WMF grants). See details at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/October_2018/Contents/Russia_...
- On Oct.20 I had a two hour long meeting with the Deputy head of
Tatarstan Presidential Adiministration responsible for internal policy http://president.tatarstan.ru/eng/apparat/structure?person_id=19792&depa... who officially invited me to engage Wikimedia Russia and other Wikimedia movement volunteers to develop "Smart wiki-region" roadmap for regional authorities throughout the Russian Federation to start learning about the Wikimedia movement and understanding how partnering therewith could be of mutual interests. This was a follow up of the Oct.1 meeting with Mintimer Shaimiev https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-October/091151.html, but mainly around my last year's musings I finally finished translating into English today @ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Frhdkazan/Wiki4RegionalDevt
- On Oct.23 We have started growing the project on WMRU-wiki at
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BC%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0... (currently in Russian only), using also eponymous thread at [wikimedia-ru] mailing list (last message https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2018-November/004914.html ).
- In mid-November we are expecting to have a presentation of the
project and our domestic experience https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Selet_WikiSchool at the large meeting called on by the ex-President of Tatarstan, State Councillor to the Republic, UNESCO Special envoy for Intercultural Dialogue Mintimer Shaimiev http://shaimiev.tatarstan.ru/eng - with invitation of
- First Deputy Head of the Tatarstan Presidential Administration (
http://president.tatarstan.ru/eng/apparat/structure?person_id=32&departm... ),
- a large body of regional ministers
** Tatar community affairs
http://prav.tatarstan.ru/eng/pravit/3.htm
** Education and science
http://mon.tatarstan.ru/eng/rukov/minister.htm
** ICT http://mic.tatarstan.ru/eng/minister.htm ** Culture http://mincult.tatarstan.ru/eng/rukov/minister.htm ** Youth affairs
http://prav.tatarstan.ru/rus/pravit/ministr-min-molodezhi
- head of regional media holding
http://tatmedia.tatarstan.ru/eng/director.htm
- head of the Institute of Tatar encyclopedia
http://antat.ru/ru/ite/staff/5679/
- head of the House of Friendship of Nations of Tatarstan
http://addnt.ru/house/management/director/
- Tomorrow morning I will be meeting with the Vice-Primier -
Minister for the ICT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Shaykhutdinov for preliminary discussions, then my high-school senior Timerkhan https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%... will assist him the next day at the preparatory meeting with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mintimer_Shaimiev.
- I didn't yet have time to think in detail about the potential
schedule or invited participants of the first public Wiki-seminar in Tatarstan, meant to expose locals to the Wikimedia movement and its best practices even if only via the video-conference (which I mentioned in the previous update), because I am doing this in between of my rather demanding work and some limited family life. The topic will most likely surface among other things tomorrow.
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 /
skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
04.10.2018, 08:32, "Pine W" [email protected]:
Hi Farhad, I'm very impressed with your successes so far. My main concern is how much of this you seem to be doing byyourself. I
hope that you have a group of people who are collaborating withyou so that
you don't feel responsible for doing everything personally, andthat you
aren't putting yourself into personal financial difficulty dueto the
amount of time that you're spending on Wikimedia activities. Regarding which people would be good to invite to a conference,I think
that GLAM and educational organizations would be naturalpartners so I
suggest starting with them. WMF might be willing to provide you with some advice and/orfunding for
GLAM or education related work if you request it, although thewait times
for WMF "Rapid Grants" funding seem to have become lengthy, so Isuggest
that if you want funding from that program that you shouldrequest it at
least two full months in advance and not rely on receiving it intime for
any particular deadline. I'm glad to hear that you're participating in Wikimedia CEE andI hope that
the affiliates in that group can provide you with good advice. Best wishes, Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l
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Dear colleagues,
Over the course of last 3 months we have: * Completed prequalifying & judging Tatar 4.0 contest in partnership with World Tatar Youth Forum (Youth wing of World Congress of Tatars ethnic NGO) with over 100 participants & 60 school teams writing their first articles in ttWP.[1] * Publicly launched cooperation with Tatar internet development Fund (NGO) during 7th Tatar Literary Marathon closing ceremony.[2] * Presented lead regional library with Qur'ans in Spanish, French & Romanian on behalf of WUG TAT, Wikimedia RUSSIA & Wikimedia movement (on last Friday of Ramadan).[3] * Had over 200 people sign-up for Spring 2019 Selet WikiSchool.[4] * First CEE Spring in ttWP with over 5 active participants.[5] * Our long time partner Selet Youth Foundation signed a cooperation agreement with Wikimedia Russia & inviting Russia's and foreign Wikimedians to run a Wiki-session during 2019 IT BILER FORUM of theirs.[6] Katherine Maher and Jimmy Wales were replaced by Nichole Saad & Amir Aharoni.[7] * We agreed with Kazan State Institute for Culture to start Wiki-education cooperation around promoting regional cultural heritage on WData, Commons, Wpedias, etc.[8] * Kazan Federal University's Institute of International Relations initiated an MOU with Wikimedia Russia to do similar things around activities of Regional Economic Geography & Eurasian Studies (as part of mandatory practical internships program for students), also expressing potential interest to host a public multilingual WikiClub on their premises downtown Kazan.[9] * Restarted work with Regional Tourism Authority to move their www.visit-tatarstan.com to CC-BY * Recent meeting in Tatarstan Presidential Administration resulted in Regional Department of Education making a request to be provided with a standardized step-by-step guide for elementary and secondary school teachers to use Wiki in all subjects taught in various languages (mainly Tatar, Russian and English, some other foreign languages as well).[10] I was requested to provide first feedback in about a week, so meanwhile decided to inquire about possibility of reactivating Russian Vikidia & opening one in Tatar.[11] (CC-BY-SA Wiki for 8-13 year olds) * Various other leads with Education and Publishing partners.
Next update will be around Wikimania, so I might change the topic as we will pass the baton to the 2019 Wikimedian of the Year then :) regards, farhad
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:TATAR_4.0_contest [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:7th_Tatar_Literary_Marathon [3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:2019_Library_in_the_Park_in_Kaza... [4] Spring 2019 Selet WikiSchool Wiki-page - https://w.wiki/3ZS%C2%A0 (in Tatar, links to 4 Wiki-trips, 5 Master-classes & 3 practical editing sessions over YouTube, some registrations) [5] CEE Spring 2019 in ttWP - https://w.wiki/6AN (in Tatar) [6] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki-program_of_IT_BILER_FORUM [7] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2019-July/005119.html (in English) [8] Roadmap for raising awareness on regional Cultural Heritage - https://w.wiki/6AC (in Russian) - to be followed in partnership with Kazan State Instute of Culture [9] On cooperation with Kazan Federal University Institute of International Relations Chair of Regional Economy and Eurasian Studies (in Russian) https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2019-July/005118.html [10] July & preceding progress report on Wiki-Tatarstan (in Russian) https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2019-July/005124.html [11] Inquiring on reactivating Russian & starting Tatar Vikidia https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2019-July/005129.html (in English)
-- Farhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/%C2%A0%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB.+79274158066%C2%A0/ skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan / Wikidata:Q34036417
22.04.2019, 19:22, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farhad Fatkullin" [email protected]:
Regional department of education (elementary & secondary education) & Kazan Federal University today received instructions signed by the President of Tatarstan on integrating Wikimedia Education Program opportunities into the curricula of educational establishments of the Republic. I was asked for some guidance on the topic before tonight, so prepared what I could in Russian https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2019-April/005086.html We are in the country with a centralized education system culture, so project owner will be the ministry, with Wikimedians serving as stakeholders, consultants & guides.
On March 1st we fielded 2 speakers for EDU RUSSIA 2019 conference https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/February_2019/Contents/Russia...
On April 11-12 our Bashkir colleagues (WUG BAK) were invited to speak @ their regional teachers' conference (photoes & report in Russian - https://ru.wikinews.org/wiki/?curid=221169 ) & their regional deputy minister recalled our speakers in Kazan
Right now our judges are checking some 200 pre-qualified ttWP articles created by 67 previously untrained school teams in the framework of Tatar 4.0 contest. Prizes provided by local partner, introduction to the contest video, Messenger support, participant & article tagging, prequalification & assessing on volunteering time. 10 best teams to be publicly awarded at Ğabdulla Tuqay memorial event downtown Kazan on April 26. Contest in Tatar - https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82:%D0%A2%D0... Lessons learnt in Russian - https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BC%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0...
This all follows our February presentation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/February_2019/Contents/Russia...
regards, farhad
-- Farhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/%C2%A0%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB.+79274158066%C2%A0/ skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan / Wikidata:Q34036417
08.02.2019, 22:23, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" [email protected]:
Some news:
I managed to get vocal approval of the proposal to transfer Wiki-competencies to Tatarstan public by Federal Deputy Prime-Minister Maxim Akimov and had Regional President Rustam Minnikhanov express his invitation to the subject-minister (Vice Prime-Minister of Tatarstan - InfoComm minister Roman Shaykhutdinov) to prepare necessary proposals for organizing the process in a successful scalable way. I will have to do more thinking and writing now so as to try have this implemented first in my Republic, then across Russia.
I was given less than a minute during pre-Conference tour of the project stands prepared by corporations and state enterprises (without slides or any visual support), so I had to skim to the very facts and the value proposition that would get their attention.
On a more tangible side, https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Selet_WikiSchool that I started back in 2016, will get support from the regional budget & thus expand. Currently this is on the shoulders of a team consisting of high-school senior, a University freshman and a sophomore/junior from one rural school.
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/%C2%A0%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB.+79274158066%C2%A0/ skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
17.01.2019, 18:35, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" [email protected]:
Dear colleagues,
You can track my preparation in English @ https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BC%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0... (date move to accommodate VIP participants' schedules).
I had to skim my original 18 minute text to under 7.
I intend to touch on most of what had to go via the Slides which will accompany my talk.
Tatar components will be prepared last, as Russian and English are best tools for getting feedback from across the Wiki-world.
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/%C2%A0%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB.+79274158066%C2%A0/ skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
14.01.2019, 19:10, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" [email protected]:
Dear colleagues,
This is a heads-up on the fact that on Jan.29 I will be speaking in Tatar (with simultaneous interpretation of my words into Russian) at the Republic of Tatarstan Ministry for ICT closing conference for 2018 in front of the President of the Republic, Russia's Federal minister for ICT, members of Tatarstan government, industry & the press, possibly some participants from nearby regional ministries.
I will have some 7-10 min to present on https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Smart_region , rough English translation for the base page completed today.
It will be a basic intro level talk accompanied by slides about some things that can be appropriately mentioned without overburdening the public hearing about Wiki-community activities for the first time in their lives. I will email you draft text around the end of the week (once I am comfortable with it), with some ideas on the slides I will play along my speech and a list of recommended follow-on measures.
Expected outcome: Presidential instruction to the Tatarstan government to for a cross-departmental working group to study what ICT ministry led Wikimedia working group (since August 2018) has came up with & look into possible way of integrating this into Tatarstan social life (I was offered to formulate it myself today).
Other related Wikimedia Russia news:
* On or around Feb.8, we are to have first follow-on introduction of Wikipedia Education Program to wider professors & students' body of Kazan Federal University Institute for International Relations, with director of which we had a productive meeting on Dec.21, following the events described in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/December_2018/Contents/Russia...
* On Feb.28-March 1 we are invited to field speakers for http://eduforumkazan.ru/ (attended by Russia's Federal Minister for Education and her team)
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/%C2%A0%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB.+79274158066%C2%A0/ skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
05.11.2018, 17:22, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" [email protected]:
Dear colleagues,
Below is my October activities report & description of upcoming events
1) On Oct.13-14 at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2018 we presented some of the things we are doing in Russia (FYI: without any WMF grants). See details at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/October_2018/Contents/Russia_...
2) On Oct.20 I had a two hour long meeting with the Deputy head of Tatarstan Presidential Adiministration responsible for internal policy http://president.tatarstan.ru/eng/apparat/structure?person_id=19792&depa... who officially invited me to engage Wikimedia Russia and other Wikimedia movement volunteers to develop "Smart wiki-region" roadmap for regional authorities throughout the Russian Federation to start learning about the Wikimedia movement and understanding how partnering therewith could be of mutual interests. This was a follow up of the Oct.1 meeting with Mintimer Shaimiev https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-October/091151.html, but mainly around my last year's musings I finally finished translating into English today @ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Frhdkazan/Wiki4RegionalDevt
3) On Oct.23 We have started growing the project on WMRU-wiki at https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BC%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0... (currently in Russian only), using also eponymous thread at [wikimedia-ru] mailing list (last message https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2018-November/004914.html ).
4) In mid-November we are expecting to have a presentation of the project and our domestic experience https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Selet_WikiSchool at the large meeting called on by the ex-President of Tatarstan, State Councillor to the Republic, UNESCO Special envoy for Intercultural Dialogue Mintimer Shaimiev http://shaimiev.tatarstan.ru/eng - with invitation of * First Deputy Head of the Tatarstan Presidential Administration (http://president.tatarstan.ru/eng/apparat/structure?person_id=32&departm...), * a large body of regional ministers ** Tatar community affairs http://prav.tatarstan.ru/eng/pravit/3.htm ** Education and science http://mon.tatarstan.ru/eng/rukov/minister.htm ** ICT http://mic.tatarstan.ru/eng/minister.htm ** Culture http://mincult.tatarstan.ru/eng/rukov/minister.htm ** Youth affairs http://prav.tatarstan.ru/rus/pravit/ministr-min-molodezhi * head of regional media holding http://tatmedia.tatarstan.ru/eng/director.htm * head of the Institute of Tatar encyclopedia http://antat.ru/ru/ite/staff/5679/ * head of the House of Friendship of Nations of Tatarstan http://addnt.ru/house/management/director/
5) Tomorrow morning I will be meeting with the Vice-Primier - Minister for the ICT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Shaykhutdinov for preliminary discussions, then my high-school senior Timerkhan https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%... will assist him the next day at the preparatory meeting with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mintimer_Shaimiev.
6) I didn't yet have time to think in detail about the potential schedule or invited participants of the first public Wiki-seminar in Tatarstan, meant to expose locals to the Wikimedia movement and its best practices even if only via the video-conference (which I mentioned in the previous update), because I am doing this in between of my rather demanding work and some limited family life. The topic will most likely surface among other things tomorrow.
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/%C2%A0%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB.+79274158066%C2%A0/ skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
04.10.2018, 08:32, "Pine W" [email protected]:
Hi Farhad,
I'm very impressed with your successes so far.
My main concern is how much of this you seem to be doing by yourself. I hope that you have a group of people who are collaborating with you so that you don't feel responsible for doing everything personally, and that you aren't putting yourself into personal financial difficulty due to the amount of time that you're spending on Wikimedia activities.
Regarding which people would be good to invite to a conference, I think that GLAM and educational organizations would be natural partners so I suggest starting with them.
WMF might be willing to provide you with some advice and/or funding for GLAM or education related work if you request it, although the wait times for WMF "Rapid Grants" funding seem to have become lengthy, so I suggest that if you want funding from that program that you should request it at least two full months in advance and not rely on receiving it in time for any particular deadline.
I'm glad to hear that you're participating in Wikimedia CEE and I hope that the affiliates in that group can provide you with good advice.
Best wishes,
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Hey Farhad,
really impressive how you managed to leverage this opportunity. Thank you for putting in all this effort, it's heart warming to see you and your colleagues so busy.
Lodewijk
On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 1:16 PM Фархад Фаткуллин / Farhad Fatkullin < [email protected]> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
Over the course of last 3 months we have:
- Completed prequalifying & judging Tatar 4.0 contest in partnership with
World Tatar Youth Forum (Youth wing of World Congress of Tatars ethnic NGO) with over 100 participants & 60 school teams writing their first articles in ttWP.[1]
- Publicly launched cooperation with Tatar internet development Fund (NGO)
during 7th Tatar Literary Marathon closing ceremony.[2]
- Presented lead regional library with Qur'ans in Spanish, French &
Romanian on behalf of WUG TAT, Wikimedia RUSSIA & Wikimedia movement (on last Friday of Ramadan).[3]
- Had over 200 people sign-up for Spring 2019 Selet WikiSchool.[4]
- First CEE Spring in ttWP with over 5 active participants.[5]
- Our long time partner Selet Youth Foundation signed a cooperation
agreement with Wikimedia Russia & inviting Russia's and foreign Wikimedians to run a Wiki-session during 2019 IT BILER FORUM of theirs.[6] Katherine Maher and Jimmy Wales were replaced by Nichole Saad & Amir Aharoni.[7]
- We agreed with Kazan State Institute for Culture to start Wiki-education
cooperation around promoting regional cultural heritage on WData, Commons, Wpedias, etc.[8]
- Kazan Federal University's Institute of International Relations
initiated an MOU with Wikimedia Russia to do similar things around activities of Regional Economic Geography & Eurasian Studies (as part of mandatory practical internships program for students), also expressing potential interest to host a public multilingual WikiClub on their premises downtown Kazan.[9]
- Restarted work with Regional Tourism Authority to move their
www.visit-tatarstan.com to CC-BY
- Recent meeting in Tatarstan Presidential Administration resulted in
Regional Department of Education making a request to be provided with a standardized step-by-step guide for elementary and secondary school teachers to use Wiki in all subjects taught in various languages (mainly Tatar, Russian and English, some other foreign languages as well).[10] I was requested to provide first feedback in about a week, so meanwhile decided to inquire about possibility of reactivating Russian Vikidia & opening one in Tatar.[11] (CC-BY-SA Wiki for 8-13 year olds)
- Various other leads with Education and Publishing partners.
Next update will be around Wikimania, so I might change the topic as we will pass the baton to the 2019 Wikimedian of the Year then :) regards, farhad
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:TATAR_4.0_contest [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:7th_Tatar_Literary_Marathon [3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:2019_Library_in_the_Park_in_Kaza... [4] Spring 2019 Selet WikiSchool Wiki-page - https://w.wiki/3ZS (in Tatar, links to 4 Wiki-trips, 5 Master-classes & 3 practical editing sessions over YouTube, some registrations) [5] CEE Spring 2019 in ttWP - https://w.wiki/6AN (in Tatar) [6] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki-program_of_IT_BILER_FORUM [7] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2019-July/005119.html (in English) [8] Roadmap for raising awareness on regional Cultural Heritage - https://w.wiki/6AC (in Russian) - to be followed in partnership with Kazan State Instute of Culture [9] On cooperation with Kazan Federal University Institute of International Relations Chair of Regional Economy and Eurasian Studies (in Russian) https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2019-July/005118.html [10] July & preceding progress report on Wiki-Tatarstan (in Russian) https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2019-July/005124.html [11] Inquiring on reactivating Russian & starting Tatar Vikidia https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2019-July/005129.html (in English)
-- Farhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 / skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan / Wikidata:Q34036417
22.04.2019, 19:22, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farhad Fatkullin" <[email protected]
: Regional department of education (elementary & secondary education) &
Kazan Federal University today received instructions signed by the President of Tatarstan on integrating Wikimedia Education Program opportunities into the curricula of educational establishments of the Republic. I was asked for some guidance on the topic before tonight, so prepared what I could in Russian https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2019-April/005086.html
We are in the country with a centralized education system culture, so
project owner will be the ministry, with Wikimedians serving as stakeholders, consultants & guides.
On March 1st we fielded 2 speakers for EDU RUSSIA 2019 conference
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/February_2019/Contents/Russia...
On April 11-12 our Bashkir colleagues (WUG BAK) were invited to speak @
their regional teachers' conference (photoes & report in Russian - https://ru.wikinews.org/wiki/?curid=221169 ) & their regional deputy minister recalled our speakers in Kazan
Right now our judges are checking some 200 pre-qualified ttWP articles
created by 67 previously untrained school teams in the framework of Tatar 4.0 contest. Prizes provided by local partner, introduction to the contest video, Messenger support, participant & article tagging, prequalification & assessing on volunteering time. 10 best teams to be publicly awarded at Ğabdulla Tuqay memorial event downtown Kazan on April 26.
Contest in Tatar - https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82:%D0%A2%D0... Lessons learnt in Russian -
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BC%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0...
This all follows our February presentation
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/February_2019/Contents/Russia...
regards, farhad
-- Farhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 /
skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan / Wikidata:Q34036417
08.02.2019, 22:23, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" <
Some news:
I managed to get vocal approval of the proposal to transfer
Wiki-competencies to Tatarstan public by Federal Deputy Prime-Minister Maxim Akimov and had Regional President Rustam Minnikhanov express his invitation to the subject-minister (Vice Prime-Minister of Tatarstan - InfoComm minister Roman Shaykhutdinov) to prepare necessary proposals for organizing the process in a successful scalable way. I will have to do more thinking and writing now so as to try have this implemented first in my Republic, then across Russia.
I was given less than a minute during pre-Conference tour of the
project stands prepared by corporations and state enterprises (without slides or any visual support), so I had to skim to the very facts and the value proposition that would get their attention.
On a more tangible side,
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Selet_WikiSchool that I started back in 2016, will get support from the regional budget & thus expand. Currently this is on the shoulders of a team consisting of high-school senior, a University freshman and a sophomore/junior from one rural school.
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 /
skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
17.01.2019, 18:35, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" <
Dear colleagues,
You can track my preparation in English @
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BC%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0... (date move to accommodate VIP participants' schedules).
I had to skim my original 18 minute text to under 7.
I intend to touch on most of what had to go via the Slides which
will accompany my talk.
Tatar components will be prepared last, as Russian and English are
best tools for getting feedback from across the Wiki-world.
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 /
skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
14.01.2019, 19:10, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" <
Dear colleagues,
This is a heads-up on the fact that on Jan.29 I will be speaking
in Tatar (with simultaneous interpretation of my words into Russian) at the Republic of Tatarstan Ministry for ICT closing conference for 2018 in front of the President of the Republic, Russia's Federal minister for ICT, members of Tatarstan government, industry & the press, possibly some participants from nearby regional ministries.
I will have some 7-10 min to present on
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Smart_region , rough English translation for the base page completed today.
It will be a basic intro level talk accompanied by slides about
some things that can be appropriately mentioned without overburdening the public hearing about Wiki-community activities for the first time in their lives. I will email you draft text around the end of the week (once I am comfortable with it), with some ideas on the slides I will play along my speech and a list of recommended follow-on measures.
Expected outcome: Presidential instruction to the Tatarstan
government to for a cross-departmental working group to study what ICT ministry led Wikimedia working group (since August 2018) has came up with & look into possible way of integrating this into Tatarstan social life (I was offered to formulate it myself today).
Other related Wikimedia Russia news:
- On or around Feb.8, we are to have first follow-on introduction
of Wikipedia Education Program to wider professors & students' body of Kazan Federal University Institute for International Relations, with director of which we had a productive meeting on Dec.21, following the events described in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/December_2018/Contents/Russia...
- On Feb.28-March 1 we are invited to field speakers for
http://eduforumkazan.ru/ (attended by Russia's Federal Minister for Education and her team)
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 /
skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
05.11.2018, 17:22, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" <
Dear colleagues, Below is my October activities report & description of upcomingevents
1) On Oct.13-14 athttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2018 we presented some of the things we are doing in Russia (FYI: without any WMF grants). See details at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/October_2018/Contents/Russia_...
2) On Oct.20 I had a two hour long meeting with the Deputy headof Tatarstan Presidential Adiministration responsible for internal policy http://president.tatarstan.ru/eng/apparat/structure?person_id=19792&depa... who officially invited me to engage Wikimedia Russia and other Wikimedia movement volunteers to develop "Smart wiki-region" roadmap for regional authorities throughout the Russian Federation to start learning about the Wikimedia movement and understanding how partnering therewith could be of mutual interests. This was a follow up of the Oct.1 meeting with Mintimer Shaimiev https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-October/091151.html, but mainly around my last year's musings I finally finished translating into English today @ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Frhdkazan/Wiki4RegionalDevt
3) On Oct.23 We have started growing the project on WMRU-wiki athttps://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BC%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0... (currently in Russian only), using also eponymous thread at [wikimedia-ru] mailing list (last message https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2018-November/004914.html ).
4) In mid-November we are expecting to have a presentation ofthe project and our domestic experience https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Selet_WikiSchool at the large meeting called on by the ex-President of Tatarstan, State Councillor to the Republic, UNESCO Special envoy for Intercultural Dialogue Mintimer Shaimiev http://shaimiev.tatarstan.ru/eng - with invitation of
* First Deputy Head of the Tatarstan Presidential Administration( http://president.tatarstan.ru/eng/apparat/structure?person_id=32&departm... ),
* a large body of regional ministers ** Tatar community affairshttp://prav.tatarstan.ru/eng/pravit/3.htm
** Education and sciencehttp://mon.tatarstan.ru/eng/rukov/minister.htm
** ICT http://mic.tatarstan.ru/eng/minister.htm ** Culture http://mincult.tatarstan.ru/eng/rukov/minister.htm ** Youth affairshttp://prav.tatarstan.ru/rus/pravit/ministr-min-molodezhi
* head of regional media holdinghttp://tatmedia.tatarstan.ru/eng/director.htm
* head of the Institute of Tatar encyclopediahttp://antat.ru/ru/ite/staff/5679/
* head of the House of Friendship of Nations of Tatarstanhttp://addnt.ru/house/management/director/
5) Tomorrow morning I will be meeting with the Vice-Primier -Minister for the ICT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Shaykhutdinov for preliminary discussions, then my high-school senior Timerkhan https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%... will assist him the next day at the preparatory meeting with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mintimer_Shaimiev.
6) I didn't yet have time to think in detail about the potentialschedule or invited participants of the first public Wiki-seminar in Tatarstan, meant to expose locals to the Wikimedia movement and its best practices even if only via the video-conference (which I mentioned in the previous update), because I am doing this in between of my rather demanding work and some limited family life. The topic will most likely surface among other things tomorrow.
regards, farhad -- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 /skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
04.10.2018, 08:32, "Pine W" <[email protected]>:> Hi Farhad, > > I'm very impressed with your successes so far. > > My main concern is how much of this you seem to be doing by
yourself. I
> hope that you have a group of people who are collaborating
with you so that
> you don't feel responsible for doing everything personally,
and that you
> aren't putting yourself into personal financial difficulty due
to the
> amount of time that you're spending on Wikimedia activities. > > Regarding which people would be good to invite to a
conference, I think
> that GLAM and educational organizations would be natural
partners so I
> suggest starting with them. > > WMF might be willing to provide you with some advice and/or
funding for
> GLAM or education related work if you request it, although the
wait times
> for WMF "Rapid Grants" funding seem to have become lengthy, so
I suggest
> that if you want funding from that program that you should
request it at
> least two full months in advance and not rely on receiving it
in time for
> any particular deadline. > > I'm glad to hear that you're participating in Wikimedia CEE
and I hope that
> the affiliates in that group can provide you with good advice. > > Best wishes, > > Pine > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:
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Very warmly seconded!! SJ
On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 9:53 PM effe iets anders [email protected] wrote:
Hey Farhad,
really impressive how you managed to leverage this opportunity. Thank you for putting in all this effort, it's heart warming to see you and your colleagues so busy.
Lodewijk
On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 1:16 PM Фархад Фаткуллин / Farhad Fatkullin < [email protected]> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
Over the course of last 3 months we have:
- Completed prequalifying & judging Tatar 4.0 contest in partnership with
World Tatar Youth Forum (Youth wing of World Congress of Tatars ethnic
NGO)
with over 100 participants & 60 school teams writing their first articles in ttWP.[1]
- Publicly launched cooperation with Tatar internet development Fund
(NGO)
during 7th Tatar Literary Marathon closing ceremony.[2]
- Presented lead regional library with Qur'ans in Spanish, French &
Romanian on behalf of WUG TAT, Wikimedia RUSSIA & Wikimedia movement (on last Friday of Ramadan).[3]
- Had over 200 people sign-up for Spring 2019 Selet WikiSchool.[4]
- First CEE Spring in ttWP with over 5 active participants.[5]
- Our long time partner Selet Youth Foundation signed a cooperation
agreement with Wikimedia Russia & inviting Russia's and foreign
Wikimedians
to run a Wiki-session during 2019 IT BILER FORUM of theirs.[6] Katherine Maher and Jimmy Wales were replaced by Nichole Saad & Amir Aharoni.[7]
- We agreed with Kazan State Institute for Culture to start
Wiki-education
cooperation around promoting regional cultural heritage on WData,
Commons,
Wpedias, etc.[8]
- Kazan Federal University's Institute of International Relations
initiated an MOU with Wikimedia Russia to do similar things around activities of Regional Economic Geography & Eurasian Studies (as part of mandatory practical internships program for students), also expressing potential interest to host a public multilingual WikiClub on their
premises
downtown Kazan.[9]
- Restarted work with Regional Tourism Authority to move their
www.visit-tatarstan.com to CC-BY
- Recent meeting in Tatarstan Presidential Administration resulted in
Regional Department of Education making a request to be provided with a standardized step-by-step guide for elementary and secondary school teachers to use Wiki in all subjects taught in various languages (mainly Tatar, Russian and English, some other foreign languages as well).[10] I was requested to provide first feedback in about a week, so meanwhile decided to inquire about possibility of reactivating Russian Vikidia & opening one in Tatar.[11] (CC-BY-SA Wiki for 8-13 year olds)
- Various other leads with Education and Publishing partners.
Next update will be around Wikimania, so I might change the topic as we will pass the baton to the 2019 Wikimedian of the Year then :) regards, farhad
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:TATAR_4.0_contest [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:7th_Tatar_Literary_Marathon [3]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:2019_Library_in_the_Park_in_Kaza...
[4] Spring 2019 Selet WikiSchool Wiki-page - https://w.wiki/3ZS (in Tatar, links to 4 Wiki-trips, 5 Master-classes & 3 practical editing sessions over YouTube, some registrations) [5] CEE Spring 2019 in ttWP - https://w.wiki/6AN (in Tatar) [6]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki-program_of_IT_BILER_FORUM
[7] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2019-July/005119.html (in English) [8] Roadmap for raising awareness on regional Cultural Heritage - https://w.wiki/6AC (in Russian) - to be followed in partnership with Kazan State Instute of Culture [9] On cooperation with Kazan Federal University Institute of International Relations Chair of Regional Economy and Eurasian Studies
(in
Russian) https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2019-July/005118.html [10] July & preceding progress report on Wiki-Tatarstan (in Russian) https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2019-July/005124.html [11] Inquiring on reactivating Russian & starting Tatar Vikidia https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2019-July/005129.html (in English)
-- Farhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 / skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan / Wikidata:Q34036417
22.04.2019, 19:22, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farhad Fatkullin" <
: Regional department of education (elementary & secondary education) &
Kazan Federal University today received instructions signed by the President of Tatarstan on integrating Wikimedia Education Program opportunities into the curricula of educational establishments of the Republic. I was asked for some guidance on the topic before tonight, so prepared what I could in Russian
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2019-April/005086.html
We are in the country with a centralized education system culture, so
project owner will be the ministry, with Wikimedians serving as stakeholders, consultants & guides.
On March 1st we fielded 2 speakers for EDU RUSSIA 2019 conference
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/February_2019/Contents/Russia...
On April 11-12 our Bashkir colleagues (WUG BAK) were invited to speak @
their regional teachers' conference (photoes & report in Russian - https://ru.wikinews.org/wiki/?curid=221169 ) & their regional deputy minister recalled our speakers in Kazan
Right now our judges are checking some 200 pre-qualified ttWP articles
created by 67 previously untrained school teams in the framework of Tatar 4.0 contest. Prizes provided by local partner, introduction to the
contest
video, Messenger support, participant & article tagging,
prequalification &
assessing on volunteering time. 10 best teams to be publicly awarded at Ğabdulla Tuqay memorial event downtown Kazan on April 26.
Contest in Tatar - https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82:%D0%A2%D0... Lessons learnt in Russian -
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BC%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0...
This all follows our February presentation
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/February_2019/Contents/Russia...
regards, farhad
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08.02.2019, 22:23, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" <
Some news:
I managed to get vocal approval of the proposal to transfer
Wiki-competencies to Tatarstan public by Federal Deputy Prime-Minister Maxim Akimov and had Regional President Rustam Minnikhanov express his invitation to the subject-minister (Vice Prime-Minister of Tatarstan - InfoComm minister Roman Shaykhutdinov) to prepare necessary proposals for organizing the process in a successful scalable way. I will have to do
more
thinking and writing now so as to try have this implemented first in my Republic, then across Russia.
I was given less than a minute during pre-Conference tour of the
project stands prepared by corporations and state enterprises (without slides or any visual support), so I had to skim to the very facts and the value proposition that would get their attention.
On a more tangible side,
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Selet_WikiSchool that I started back in 2016, will get support from the regional budget & thus expand. Currently this is on the shoulders of a team consisting of high-school senior, a University freshman and a sophomore/junior from one rural school.
regards, farhad
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17.01.2019, 18:35, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" <
Dear colleagues,
You can track my preparation in English @
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BC%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0... (date move to accommodate VIP participants' schedules).
I had to skim my original 18 minute text to under 7.
I intend to touch on most of what had to go via the Slides which
will accompany my talk.
Tatar components will be prepared last, as Russian and English are
best tools for getting feedback from across the Wiki-world.
regards, farhad
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14.01.2019, 19:10, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" <
Dear colleagues,
This is a heads-up on the fact that on Jan.29 I will be speaking
in Tatar (with simultaneous interpretation of my words into Russian) at
the
Republic of Tatarstan Ministry for ICT closing conference for 2018 in
front
of the President of the Republic, Russia's Federal minister for ICT, members of Tatarstan government, industry & the press, possibly some participants from nearby regional ministries.
I will have some 7-10 min to present on
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Smart_region , rough English translation for the base page completed today.
It will be a basic intro level talk accompanied by slides about
some things that can be appropriately mentioned without overburdening
the
public hearing about Wiki-community activities for the first time in
their
lives. I will email you draft text around the end of the week (once I am comfortable with it), with some ideas on the slides I will play along my speech and a list of recommended follow-on measures.
Expected outcome: Presidential instruction to the Tatarstan
government to for a cross-departmental working group to study what ICT ministry led Wikimedia working group (since August 2018) has came up
with &
look into possible way of integrating this into Tatarstan social life (I was offered to formulate it myself today).
Other related Wikimedia Russia news:
- On or around Feb.8, we are to have first follow-on introduction
of Wikipedia Education Program to wider professors & students' body of Kazan Federal University Institute for International Relations, with director of which we had a productive meeting on Dec.21, following the events described in
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/December_2018/Contents/Russia...
- On Feb.28-March 1 we are invited to field speakers for
http://eduforumkazan.ru/ (attended by Russia's Federal Minister for Education and her team)
regards, farhad
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05.11.2018, 17:22, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" <
> Dear colleagues, > > Below is my October activities report & description of upcoming
events
> > 1) On Oct.13-14 at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2018 we presented some of the things we are doing in Russia (FYI: without any WMF grants). See details at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/October_2018/Contents/Russia_...
> > 2) On Oct.20 I had a two hour long meeting with the Deputy head
of Tatarstan Presidential Adiministration responsible for internal policy
http://president.tatarstan.ru/eng/apparat/structure?person_id=19792&depa...
who officially invited me to engage Wikimedia Russia and other Wikimedia movement volunteers to develop "Smart wiki-region" roadmap for regional authorities throughout the Russian Federation to start learning about the Wikimedia movement and understanding how partnering therewith could be of mutual interests. This was a follow up of the Oct.1 meeting with Mintimer Shaimiev
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-October/091151.html ,
but mainly around my last year's musings I finally finished translating into English today @ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Frhdkazan/Wiki4RegionalDevt
> > 3) On Oct.23 We have started growing the project on WMRU-wiki
at
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BC%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0... (currently in Russian only), using also eponymous thread at [wikimedia-ru] mailing list (last message
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2018-November/004914.html
).
> > 4) In mid-November we are expecting to have a presentation of
the project and our domestic experience https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Selet_WikiSchool at the large meeting called on by the ex-President of Tatarstan, State Councillor to the Republic, UNESCO Special envoy for Intercultural Dialogue Mintimer
Shaimiev
http://shaimiev.tatarstan.ru/eng - with invitation of
> * First Deputy Head of the Tatarstan Presidential
Administration
(
http://president.tatarstan.ru/eng/apparat/structure?person_id=32&departm...
),
> * a large body of regional ministers > ** Tatar community affairs
http://prav.tatarstan.ru/eng/pravit/3.htm
> ** Education and science
http://mon.tatarstan.ru/eng/rukov/minister.htm
> ** ICT http://mic.tatarstan.ru/eng/minister.htm > ** Culture http://mincult.tatarstan.ru/eng/rukov/minister.htm > ** Youth affairs
http://prav.tatarstan.ru/rus/pravit/ministr-min-molodezhi
> * head of regional media holding
http://tatmedia.tatarstan.ru/eng/director.htm
> * head of the Institute of Tatar encyclopedia
http://antat.ru/ru/ite/staff/5679/
> * head of the House of Friendship of Nations of Tatarstan
http://addnt.ru/house/management/director/
> > 5) Tomorrow morning I will be meeting with the Vice-Primier -
Minister for the ICT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Shaykhutdinov for preliminary discussions, then my high-school senior Timerkhan https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%... will assist him the
next
day at the preparatory meeting with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mintimer_Shaimiev.
> > 6) I didn't yet have time to think in detail about the
potential
schedule or invited participants of the first public Wiki-seminar in Tatarstan, meant to expose locals to the Wikimedia movement and its best practices even if only via the video-conference (which I mentioned in the previous update), because I am doing this in between of my rather
demanding
work and some limited family life. The topic will most likely surface
among
other things tomorrow.
> > regards, > farhad > > -- > Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/
Тел.+79274158066 /
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> > 04.10.2018, 08:32, "Pine W" [email protected]: >> Hi Farhad, >> >> I'm very impressed with your successes so far. >> >> My main concern is how much of this you seem to be doing by
yourself. I
>> hope that you have a group of people who are collaborating
with you so that
>> you don't feel responsible for doing everything personally,
and that you
>> aren't putting yourself into personal financial difficulty
due
to the
>> amount of time that you're spending on Wikimedia activities. >> >> Regarding which people would be good to invite to a
conference, I think
>> that GLAM and educational organizations would be natural
partners so I
>> suggest starting with them. >> >> WMF might be willing to provide you with some advice and/or
funding for
>> GLAM or education related work if you request it, although
the
wait times
>> for WMF "Rapid Grants" funding seem to have become lengthy,
so
I suggest
>> that if you want funding from that program that you should
request it at
>> least two full months in advance and not rely on receiving it
in time for
>> any particular deadline. >> >> I'm glad to hear that you're participating in Wikimedia CEE
and I hope that
>> the affiliates in that group can provide you with good
advice.
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Dear colleagues,
This is to update you on the work we continue doing in Tatarstan.
1) At the moment we are pursuing cooperation with local partners:
a) Kazan City Mayor's office regarding Tatarstan-Russia-EuroAsia-UCLG international municipal WikiProject (https://w.wiki/MFH)
b) Local investment promotion agency's interest (https://w.wiki/MFL) around * sponsoring measures to describe Tatarstan phenomena on Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, multilingual Wikipedia and Wikivoyage * organize events to teach about Wiki-editing to own staff, as well as those of subordinate and partner organizations * actively promote region-related content creation in at least 11 languages, including regional Tatar.
Based on the requisites for such a cooperation to be both effective and transparent, I might have to have to become a Wiki-resident with them and otherwise have a much deeper research of existing COI policies & procedures to prevent mistrust. Your comments would be greatly appreciated.
2) We are looking forward to reviving promotion of "Tatar Wiki in Secondary Education" project (https://w.wiki/8kc, with regional Department of Education) that we suspended at the end of November due to uncertainty caused by new Russian Federal Legislation adopted to stop foreign interference in Russian Domestic politics that had caused some concerns regarding its possible side effects (https://w.wiki/MFR). We were calmed down in February when Russia's new Prime-Minister reiterated the country's interest to join OECD and otherwise improve relations with Western nations.
3) In mid-November we had active Tatar Wikipedians celebrated at a Regional Govenment organized event, looking forward to continue this partnership with Tatar Internet Development Foundation (https://w.wiki/MFk).
4) Our youth from Selet WikiSchool this year have again organized April Tatar 4.0 article contest in ttWP in partnership with World Tatar Youth Forum NGO (https://w.wiki/MFe), declared interest to join CEE Spring 2020 as well.
5) Members of recently recognized Turkic Wikimedians UG decided that my account being unfairly indefinitely blocked on Tatar Wikipedia was not supportive to respective efforts, so they pushed for my 7-month-long ttWP quarantine to be over (https://w.wiki/MFN).
regards, farhad
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21.07.2019, 23:16, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farhad Fatkullin" [email protected]:
Dear colleagues,
Over the course of last 3 months we have:
see further @ https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2019-July/093090.html
Il giorno mer 29 ago 2018 19:56 Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin < [email protected]> ha scritto:
Dear colleagues,
Since yesterday all subdomains hosted @ http://tatarstan.ru/ (including websites of the http://president.tatarstan.ru/, the Cabinet http://prav.tatarstan.ru/, ministries/departments, state-owned organizations, municipalities and Representative offices of the Republic around Russia and abroad) moved to Creative Commons Attribution. The only exceptions are those of the First (ex-) President & the Parliament, that already had their own unique type free licenses (in Russian, non-standard).
Russian Wikinews requested me to draft an article & my counterparty at the Regional Ministry of InfoComm has gladly approved. I will probably need to find time for that today. That was the easy part. Some context: Russian President, Executive Branch of the Federal Government, both Chambers of the Federal Parliament, etc. are using Creative Commons Attribution for a while now, thanks to Senior Volunteers efforts of Wikimedia Russia members. I just communicated the benefits of this to the Regional (Republic of Tatarstan) Deputy Prime-Minister https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Shaykhutdinov, head of the regional infocomm department & he championed it far and wide within his area of responsibility.
I started engaging high-school & university students into helping the Infocomm ministry people to learn what is Wikimedia like & how it works - Deputy Prime-Minister is interested in anything that can benefit Education, Heritage Outreach, etc. development in the region & help in making culture of the Republic better known globally & promote Tatar language use online (Wikidata, GLAM, etc.). Another minister I met is excited with examples of Greek school children https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/July_2017/A_class_of_26_8... & youth in Italy http://www.rivistabricks.it/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/BRICKS_4_2017.pdf & other places develop critical thinking and develop immunity to mass & social media stories painting the world black & white as they please (stories from any outlets, including the BBC or New York Times, have to be taken with a pinch of salt - there's no unbiased human). In parallel, we are starting a cooperation with private Cambridge International school in Kazan http://school.balacity.ru/ (the founders & the director know me, invited me for cooperation, key contact person was part of the meeting, I provided necessary initial links). I know that our youth is now inspired to organize a User Group, report on their Spring & Summer efforts at Wikimedia Conference Russia this September & take their existing Selet WikiSchool project even higher. https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/May_2018/Selet_WikiSchool , more stories coming.
Last night WMF Partnerships agreed to support me in organizing a videoconference type seminar with best practices in Education/GLAM/Heritage promotion/Wikidata/etc. to explain locals about how great is the Wikimedia movement (something mainly unheard of in Russia, even though Wikipedia is actually used). I would love to have you, my dear international colleagues, to find time to connect and give a video talk on some Use Case implementation during the upcoming public seminar, organized in conjunction with Tatarstan InfoComm ministry (whenever we get the dates they will be able to gather local crowd in the IT-Park in downtown Kazan). I will take care of the simultaneous interpretation — all the necessary equipment is there, so I'll try to find the funding & qualified people.
In parallel I'll continue working on organizing a short in-person version at WMF Headquarters for the President of the Republic, if and when we can fit it into his schedule (Tatarstan Deputy Prime-Minister - Regional Minister for InfoComm wanted this to take place during one of the annual regional government delegation visits to California). President Minnikhanov is a co-chair of the Association of Innovative Regions of Russia, as well as Russia-Islamic World Strategic Vision Group, so I think we can use Jimmy's well-timed pass to score well: spreading Wikimedia movement popularity throughout Russia and the Islamic world even further, helping in unblocking Turkey in the process.
"Imagine the world in which every human is a Wikimedian. That's my commitment!"
regards, farhad
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09.08.2018, 09:09, "Pine W" [email protected]:
Hi Farhad,
Thank you for your generosity with your time as you respond to the
requests
and new opportunities.
I like Andy's suggestions. Wikimedia Armenia crossed my mind also as potentially a good organization to contact for ideas, because I have the impression that they have a good (but not excessively close) relationship with their national government, and because they have a very successful Wikipedia Education Program.
Although there seem to be many opportunities for you in the short term,
my
guess is that you will be unable to take advantage of all of them, and
that
some that you try will be more successful than others. That is all okay.
Please avoid burning yourself out. Hopefully you can work at a pace that
is
reasonable for you and will lead to long-term successes. Also, hopefully you can find people who want to help you, and have the time and the
skills
to do so. You might try to contact people that you have met on-wiki who could help you as you consider the opportunities and how you would like
to
move forward. I have the impression that you already know many
Wikimedians
who work on Russian Wikipedia, so hopefully you can get some help from
them.
If you could share occasional updates about your progress, maybe by
sending
an email to Wikimedia-l with once per quarter, I think that at least a
few
people would be interested to read what you share.
Good luck,
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 8:55 PM, Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin < [email protected]> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
This is a request for your input and possible ideas (if any) regarding
my
management of the fallout from Jimmy's announcing myself as a 2018 Wikimedian of the Year.
Emails below are a copy of my ongoing consultations with Wikimedia Foundation staff and other Wikimedians I personally know, as well as a report on what's already brewing in my region of Russia after this unexpected outcome.
I would be grateful, if you can advise me on how to properly steer the enthusiasm of behalf of regional government, mass-media, NGOs, etc.
which
have just discovered about the possibility of participation in
Wikimedia
movement (think anything from U.S. is not getting much in-depth
coverage in
Russian by sources that regional public figures, NGOs, teachers or
general
regional journalists read) & are now placing great hopes on teaching
whole
of Tatarstan about how to Wiki & also engaging all Tatars globally (3/4 outside of Tatarstan, 1/5 outside of Russia).
regards, farhad
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