Re: [Wikimedia-l] fallout from 2018 Wikimedian of the Year announcement

[Фархад Фаткуллин / Farhad Fatkullin]

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_Kazan
[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_report#Wikimedia_movement,_Wikimedia_RU_&_WUG_TAT_activities_presented_at_%C2%ABEDU_RUSSIA_2019%C2%BB_Forum
>
> On April 11-12 our Bashkir colleagues (WUG BAK) were invited to speak @ their 
> regional teachers' conference (photoes & re

[Wikimedia-l] Universal forced HTTPS backdoor in Kazakhstan

[Yury Bulka]

I'm sure many have heard about this:
https://thehackernews.com/2019/07/kazakhstan-https-security-certificate.html

Essentially, the government in Kazakhstan started forcing citizens into
installing a root TLS certificate on their devices that would allow the
government to intercept, decrypt and manipulate all HTTPS traffic.

Without the centificate, it seems, citizens can't access HTTPS pages (at
least on some ISPs).

I think this has serious implications for Wikipedia & Wikimedia, as not
only they would be easily able to see which articles people read, but
also steal login credentials, depseudonymize people and even hijack
admin accounts.

Another danger is that if this effort by Kazakhstan will succeed, other
governments may start doing the same.

I wonder if WMF has any position on this yet?

Best,
Yury.

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