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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Recognition of Wikimedia Community User Group Albania

2019-02-26 Thread Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin

>
>>  Greta Doçi  escreveu no dia segunda, 25/02/2019 à(s)
>>  12:34:
>>
>>  > Dear everyone,
>>  >
>>  > First, we want to thank everyone who contributed in this discussion.
>>  >
>>  > We want to start with the first conflict, which is the name. If you read
>>  > carefully Affcon's email above, and you check the info online as claimed
>>  by
>>  > Affcon, you will see that actually Affcon itself has confused both UG
>>  > names, crediting events to the other UG, that actually are done by our
>>  UG (
>>  > WoALUG
>>  > <
>>  >
>>  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Albanian_Language_User_Group
>>  > >)
>>  > and vice versa.
>>  >
>>  > After the new UG was recognized and people started raising questions in
>>  > this thread, we received an email by Affcon to explain to them what we
>>  > thought was the overlapping. We did send our activities and explained why
>>  > we thought there was overlapping. Reading Camelias and Sami email above,
>>  > clearly that email was ignored.
>>  >
>>  > Exactly during the time that the new UG was applying, the old one
>>  (WoALUG)
>>  > was applying for the annual simple grant, which btw took us at least 4
>>  > months to complete, all our activities in Albania were clearly stated,
>>  and
>>  > GLAM and EDUCATION were our main goals. There are also institutions
>>  > mentioned and details of what we wanted to do in Albania. So, claiming
>>  that
>>  > theres no overlapping of activities is not valid.
>>  >
>>  > WoALUG goes beyond Albania or Kosovo, because some Albanian contributors
>>  > who don't live in Albania created it at the first place, so we wish we
>>  can
>>  > help Albanian speakers in diaspora to continue to contribute, and if they
>>  > need information, sources or whatever, our team present in Albania,
>>  Kosova,
>>  > Macedonia, or Arberesh in Italy, will use our resources to make that
>>  > happen. Our UG means to be inclusive of what is a small Wikimedia
>>  language
>>  > community anyways.
>>  >
>>  > GLAM and Education institutions are depended on public institutions. To
>>  > collaborate with an institution, let's say Historic Museum of Albania,
>>  you
>>  > need to get permission from the Ministry of Culture. Think about the
>>  > scenario (which is currently happening): one UG requests to collaborate
>>  > with Museum of Elbasan and the other UG want to collaborate with Museum
>>  of
>>  > Tirana, both should sent the request to Ministry of Culture. Wikipedia
>>  is a
>>  > new thing (still) in Albania, considering that is already hard to
>>  establish
>>  > collaborations with public institutions, confusing the UGs will result in
>>  > bad outcome for both UGs.
>>  >
>>  > And of course, for the other private institutions, it is a competition
>>  who
>>  > is going to contact them first.
>>  >
>>  > Splitting institutions is also not an option because for sure we will aim
>>  > the same ones, since there's not that many of them.
>>  >
>>  > We were confused, we still are and none of our members have the time to
>>  > follow this even after a year.
>>  >
>>  > on behalf of Wikimedians of Albanian Language User Group
>>  > <
>>  >
>>  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Albanian_Language_User_Group
>>  > >
>>  > .
>>  >
>>  > On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 7:30 PM Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin <
>>  > f...@yandex.com> wrote:
>>  >
>>  > > Dear Kiril and Paulo,
>>  > > Thank you for explanations.
>>  > >
>>  > > You have my deepest respect for showing your concern for our fellow
>>  > > colleagues from Albania, so they avoid repeating the mistakes that have
>>  > > been made previously elsewhere. Just like you, I certainly hope that
>>  our
>>  > > volunteer-colleagues serving in AffCom did their best to assess and
>>  > > minimize possible risks that might come in case of competition. As for
>>  > > Albanian language & Albania centered multilingual UGs, let's hope they
>>  > are
>>  > > getting along well and work hand in hand on the aspects in which they
>>  can
>>  > > help advancing each other's missions.
>>  > >
>>  > > Our current s

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Inisghts from a meeting with NGO representatives

2019-02-17 Thread Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin

Micru,
I would be interested to learn about "External perception of the movement".part 
of your insights.
Thanks.

from Russia with love,
farhad
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Smart_region

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18.02.2019, 02:35, "David Cuenca Tudela" :
> Hello,
>
> Last Friday I participated in a workshop in Brussels where people from
> different NGOs met to learn from each other to foster flat,
> democratic, and diverse organisations. I was one of four speakers in a
> "world cafe" format (basically a circle where participants can
> interact with the speaker). I represented the Wikimedia movement in
> general, with the intention that participants would learn from our
> movement, and so that I would learn from them. There were also Open
> Space sessions.
>
> If there is interest, I can share with you my insights on any of these topics:
> - External perception of the movement
> - Recommendations to the WMF
> - Governance recommendations for the movement
> - Community model for affiliates
> - How to increase diversity
>
> There is a lot to say about each topic, so please ask only about the
> topic you have genuine interest in. If there is no interest, I'm ok
> keeping it to myself.
>
> Regards,
> Micru
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Recognition of Wikimedia Community User Group Albania

2019-02-15 Thread Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin

Dear Kiril and Paulo,
Thank you for explanations.

You have my deepest respect for showing your concern for our fellow colleagues 
from Albania, so they avoid repeating the mistakes that have been made 
previously elsewhere. Just like you, I certainly hope that our 
volunteer-colleagues serving in AffCom did their best to assess and minimize 
possible risks that might come in case of competition. As for Albanian language 
& Albania centered multilingual UGs, let's hope they are getting along well and 
work hand in hand on the aspects in which they can help advancing each other's 
missions. 

Our current situation is actually encouraging us to consider developing 
Russian-speaking UGs in all regions of Russia, and my home Republic might be 
one of the first ones where this will be useful. Our chapter consist of 
representatives of various Wikimedia projects, languages & ethnic groups, but 
our weakness is rather low regional representation and empowerment, which we 
hope to balance through UGs. The world is in constant flux, so eventually we 
might also witness similar competition for attention that you are talking 
about. We currently don't seem to have reasons for conflict between Wikimedia 
Russia chapter and Russian & other language or territorial UGs because: 
* UGs have representatives in the national chapter
* National chapter meetings are broadcast live on YouTube, 
* Chapter leadership prioritizes country-wide tasks of importance for growing 
the movement, 
* Wikimedia projects in Russian and other languages are not that famous yet,  
* neither affiliates, nor individuals in Russia get their grant requests 
approved by WMF (there are reasons for that), and
* Russian language is teaching us to be anarchic inside (affiliate structures 
are nothing more than just legal tools), whilst locals have centuries-old 
history of living together in Hunnic Empire, Cumania, Mongolic Empire, Golden 
Horde, Russian Empire, Soviet Union & now Russian Federation (something we 
remember despite the fact that Golden Horde and earlier ones don't get much 
coverage in high-school history courses).

regards,
farhad

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15.02.2019, 17:37, "Paulo Santos Perneta" :
> Hi Farhad,
>
> It is very easily understood by the so called Brazilian scenario:
>
> Step 1 - AffCom recognizes a chapter style UG, with geographic focus
> Step 2 - Dissidents from first group start warring first UG while
> attempting to form a second UG, clone of the first UG
> Step 3 - AffCom recognizes second UG
> Step 4 - Conflict between UGs dramatically increases with time, spreading
> into the Wikimedia projects
> Step 5 - AffCom dissolves both UGs
>
> Current status: No recognized Wikimedia community in the country
>
> My opinion: Terrible disservice by AffCom to the Wikimedia Movement.
>
> Best,
> Paulo
>
> Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin  escreveu no dia
> sexta, 15/02/2019 à(s) 10:59:
>
>>  Dear Kiril, Philip and colleagues,
>>
>>  Please explain the nature of reasons that cause trouble in having multiple
>>  Wikimedia affiliates in the area, as this seems to be context specific.
>>  It's possible that our context in Russia is very different, which is why
>>  we are actually welcoming creation of new UGs throughout the country, both
>>  territorially and thematically oriented ones (on top of the Wikimedia
>>  Russia national chapter).
>>  Should you give more reasons why this seems causing conflict, I might.
>>
>>  Over here we are quite happy with existing collaboration at all levels and
>>  are even looking forward to developing a mechanism to speed up their
>>  formation throughout the country - namely
>>  
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Languages_of_Russia_Community_User_Group
>>  Myself and other representatives of Wikimedia Russia discussed this in
>>  detail and welcomed by AffCom secretary during Wikimania 2017
>>  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Frhdkazan/Wikimania2017#Aug.12 And
>>  in the framework of https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Smart_region
>>  initiative, I will eventually proceed to registering a Tatarstan-oriented
>>  thematic multilingual UG, on top of recently registered
>>  
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_of_Tatar_language_User_Group
>>  & Wikimedia Russia, in both of which I am currently a member.
>>
>>  regards,
>>  farhad
>>
>>  --
>>  Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 /
>>  skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
>>
>>  14.02.2019, 03:25, "Kiril Simeonovski" :
>>  > Hi Paulo,
>>  >
>>

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Recognition of Wikimedia Community User Group Albania

2019-02-15 Thread Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin

Dear Kiril, Philip and colleagues,

Please explain the nature of reasons that cause trouble in having multiple 
Wikimedia affiliates in the area, as this seems to be context specific.
It's possible that our context in Russia is very different, which is why we are 
actually welcoming creation of new UGs throughout the country, both 
territorially and thematically oriented ones (on top of the Wikimedia Russia 
national chapter). 
Should you give more reasons why this seems causing conflict, I might.  

Over here we are quite happy with existing collaboration at all levels and are 
even looking forward to developing a mechanism to speed up their formation 
throughout the country - namely 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Languages_of_Russia_Community_User_Group
 Myself and other representatives of Wikimedia Russia discussed this in detail 
and welcomed by AffCom secretary during Wikimania 2017  
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Frhdkazan/Wikimania2017#Aug.12 And in the 
framework of https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Smart_region initiative, I will 
eventually proceed to registering a Tatarstan-oriented thematic multilingual 
UG, on top of recently registered 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_of_Tatar_language_User_Group
 & Wikimedia Russia, in both of which I am currently a member.

regards,
farhad

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14.02.2019, 03:25, "Kiril Simeonovski" :
> Hi Paulo,
>
> Camelia's paragraph that you referred to tells a story that is exactly the
> opposite of what the Affiliations Committee is doing in practice. The
> so-called 'Brazilian scenario' emerged in Macedonia when, in 2016, the
> committee decided to recognise a second user group on the same territory
> without consulting the existing one. This has eventually developed into a
> problem regarding the overlap in the scope of the two user groups and the
> resolution was normally sought from the people (more importantly
> volunteers) who were not willing this to happen. It should be also noted
> that Macedonia is a country with only 2 million inhabitants unlike Brazil's
> over 200 million and this has been mentioned numerous times by different
> people in the movement to refer to the severity of the problem.
>
> My opinion is that the Affiliations Committee has no vision on the future
> of the Wikimedia movement and their main efficiency indicator is the number
> of user groups they recognise with no care about the consequencies of the
> apparent wrongdoing. They managed to bring the tally to over 100 user
> groups and the Wikimedia Foundation even got engaged to celebrate this
> achievement, while they did not give a damn about the problems that they
> have posed with their light-minded routine. Moreover, when you approach
> them with some relevant questions, they simply brush off and respond with a
> months-long delay.
>
> In conclusion, the Affiliations Committee is artificially creating problems
> as a result of their recognition policy and is seeking resolution from
> volunteers that were not consulted at all about the potential
> consequencies. This is a waste of volunteer time and efforts for something
> that could have easily been prevented. Unfortunately, the Wikimedia
> Foundation and some other voices in the movement contribute to this misery
> and it is highly unprobable that any complaint to any one in the movement
> would pay off.
>
> Best regards,
> Kiril
>
> On сре., 13 фев. 2019 г. at 16:13 Paulo Santos Perneta <
> paulospern...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Hello,
>>
>>  camelia boban  escreveu no dia terça, 12/02/2019
>>  à(s) 11:18:
>>
>>  > (...)
>>  > In line with the philosophy of the inclusion of the movement, AffCom has
>>  > acted as it always does when it receives affiliation requests: it
>>  assesses
>>  > the territorial overlap and the declared purpose of the requests with
>>  > others affiliates present in the territory, contacting the already
>>  > recognized affiliates to hear from them about any concerns, using the
>>  > experience and knowledge on the territory of each of its members.
>>  >
>>
>>  I suppose this was not in effect back in 2015, when Wiki Education Brazil
>>  was approved, as neither the existing affiliate in Brazil - UG Wikimedia
>>  in Brazil -, nor Wikimedia Portugal, have been consulted about it, even
>>  when it totally overlapped with the territory of the existing affiliate in
>>  Brazil, and was announced by AffCom as having a Lusophone target, therefore
>>  interfering in Portugal as well. Furthermore, at the date it was approved,
>>  Wiki Education Brazil was already in open conflict with the existing
>>  affiliate in Brazil, which makes the approval decision by AffCom absolutely
>>  incomprehensible.
>>
>>  Actually, I really fail to understand why the candidatures to AffCom
>>  continue allowed to be proposed in absolute secrecy, leaving any problems
>>  caused by their ap

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

2019-02-08 Thread 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/Умный_регион/05.02.2019/en (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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> 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_report
>>
>>  * 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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>> 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
>>>
>>>   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)

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Recognition of Wikimedia Community User Group Albania

2019-02-08 Thread Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin

We are likely to eventually have a similar situation in my region of the 
Russian Federation & we welcome this.

1) A recently recognized Wikimedia Community of Tatar language User Group (WUG 
TAT) is a language-oriented UG without geographical borders.
2) At the same time, we will eventually need a Tatarstan-centered Wikimedia 
User Group / Subnational Thematic organization without specific language focus.

I am actually in the process of laying the ground for the second. During 
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Умный_регион/05.02.2019/en I was given less than 
a minute, but still managed to convince both Federal Deputy Prime-Minister and 
Regional President. I will have to craft value proposition statements & 
roadmaps in a way as to try have this implemented first in my Republic, then 
across Russia.

farhad

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06.02.2019, 21:02, "Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l" 
:
>  I guess... probably one include also the majority of Kosovo, 
> Albanian-speaking regions of Greece, P.Y.R.O.M./North Macedonia and maybe 
> even Southern Italy and the other one is just centered on Albania as a state. 
> This is not the same scenario as Brazil (not sure if, partially, also Greece) 
> since in that case we had two group precisely centered on one country.
>
> It's not totally practical but the geopolitical situation is not practical in 
> the end by itself...  You cannot force people to get rid of a group that 
> might become a future national chapter because their language is spoken by 
> many other people in neighboring countries who already clustered in a  
> previous UG. So it should not be considered a critical situation per se, 
> although the interaction of the two UGs should be closely monitored and 
> addressed since the beginning.
>
> What is missing is a precise guideline or attention to UG related to 
> languages (of minorities or globally spoken). You could have the same problem 
> with a future Italian minor languages UG active in Corsica or Croatia, with a 
> Retho-romance Alpine language user group, with a gender gap UG active in a 
> language distributed along various borders... and so on. They don't seem to 
> show huge problems when similar situation exist in reality but they could 
> degenerate, stop cooperation, or never start it with other UGs or national 
> chapters.
> I value plurality, I want UG to be created and catalyze activities, and I 
> think that the problem is mostly the character of people. However, I strongly 
> advocate a more structured architecture of language-based UG to be 
> implemented. Basically what I suppose was done with Catalan Wikimedia 
> Thematic Organization, although in that case there is no main entity 
> competing on the area of a sovereign country where Catalan is spoken (which 
> is not necessarily a better scenario, just complex in a different way). We 
> call them almost all "User groups" but they are sometimes local geographical 
> unions of users and volunteers (embryonic future national chapters or just 
> regional associations), language-oriented associations created to involve 
> minorities or cross-projects of interested users unified by a topic. They all 
> have different purpose and should be rationalized somehow. I think I pushed a 
> little bit in that direction on the application to WikiSummit, stressing the 
> importance to make order in the field.
> IMHO, we should have single-language thematic organizations (specifically for 
> a language), cross-language thematic organization or local UG centered on a 
> vague historic geographical area or a very precise administrative one. And 
> think carefully about their status. This is however just a vague idea.
>
> Alessandro
>    Il mercoledì 6 febbraio 2019, 18:11:57 CET, Philip Kopetzky 
>  ha scritto:
>
>  Just to close off this thread, there seemingly is no plan and others are
> left to deal with the fallout of this decision.
>
> On Tue, 12 Jun 2018 at 08:23, Paulo Santos Perneta 
> wrote:
>
>>  Hi Kirill,
>>
>>  I join Philip and Mardetanha on their concerns and questions. Having
>>  followed closely the Brazil situation - which ended up in the worst
>>  possible way, IMO - I'm very interested in your answer.
>>
>>  Best,
>>
>>  Paulo
>>
>>  2018-06-11 13:07 GMT+01:00 Mardetanha :
>>
>>>   Hi Kirill
>>>
>>>   Philip's concerns were not answered, would you please respond, I had the
>>>  very same question.
>>>
>>>  Mardetanha
>>>
>>>  On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 3:12 PM, Philip Kopetzky <
>>>  philip.kopet...@gmail.com>
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>  > Hi Kirill,
>>>  >
>>>  > what's the difference/relationship between this group and the
>>>  Wikimedians
>>>  > of Albanian Language User Group, which is currently applying for a
>>>  > simpleAPG grant? How do we avoid creating more Brazilian scenarios by
>>>  > reconising even more user groups from the same area?
>>>  >
>>>  > Best,
>>>  > Philip
>>>  >
>>

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

2019-01-17 Thread Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin

Dear colleagues,

You can track my preparation in English @ 
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Умный_регион/05.02.2019/en (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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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_report
>
> * 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
>>
>>  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_report
>>
>>  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&department_id=49064
>>  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/Умный_регион (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 t

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

2019-01-14 Thread 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_report


* 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_report
>
> 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&department_id=49064
>  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/Умный_регион (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&department_id=84096),
> * 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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikimedia Community of Tatar Language User Group

2019-01-05 Thread Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin

First public event on behalf of the newly recognized Wikimedia Community of 
Tatar language User Group
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/December_2018/Contents/Russia_report

Public presentation of Wikimedia projects, activities of local Wikimedians and 
their benefits for regional development to the President, Government & 
mass-media of Tatarstan, as well as Russia's ICT ministry & industry scheduled 
for the end of January

with invitation to WUG TATAR & WMRU member to speak @ EDU RUSSIA 2018 
conference in Kazan at the end of February-beginning of March (Plenary attended 
by Russia's Minister for Education.

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05.12.2018, 14:50, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" :
> Our St.Petersburg colleagues wrote a Russian Wikinews article dedicated to 
> the event.
> https://ru.wikinews.org/wiki/Татарские_викимедийцы_создали_четвёртую_в_России_юзер-группу_Викимедиа
>
> It's English translation is available in November 2018 CEE Newsletter @ 
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/November_2018/Contents/Russia_report#Russia_report:_Tatar_Wikimedians_created_Russia's_4th_Wikimedia_User_Group
>
> For Erzya language version, see 
> https://ru.wikinews.org/wiki/Татаронь_викис_витни-петнийтне_тейсть_нилеце_Россиясо_Викимедиянь_пурнавкс
>
> Translation into Tatar is also coming along @ 
> https://ru.wikinews.org/wiki/Татарча_язучы_викимедиачылар_Россиядә_дүртенче_Викимедиа_кулланучылар_төркемен_төзеде
>
> regards,
> farhad
>
> --
> Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 / 
> skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
>
> 27.11.2018, 20:15, "Kirill Lokshin" :
>>  Hi everyone!
>>
>>  I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
>>  [1] the Wikimedia Community of Tatar Language User Group [2] as a Wikimedia
>>  User Group. The group aims to develop Wikipedia in Tatar into most popular
>>  content portal of the Tatar-language internet; to grow other Wikimedia
>>  projects in the Tatar language; and to teach new generations of
>>  Tatar-language Wikimedians, developing their skills through sharing
>>  experiences.
>>
>>  Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
>>
>>  Regards,
>>  Kirill Lokshin
>>  Chair, Affiliations Committee
>>
>>  [1]
>>  
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Wikimedia_Community_of_Tatar_language_User_Group
>>  [2]
>>  
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_of_Tatar_language_User_Group
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikimedia Community of Tatar Language User Group

2018-12-05 Thread Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin

Our St.Petersburg colleagues wrote a Russian Wikinews article dedicated to the 
event.
https://ru.wikinews.org/wiki/Татарские_викимедийцы_создали_четвёртую_в_России_юзер-группу_Викимедиа

It's English translation is available in November 2018 CEE Newsletter @ 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/November_2018/Contents/Russia_report#Russia_report:_Tatar_Wikimedians_created_Russia's_4th_Wikimedia_User_Group

For Erzya language version, see 
https://ru.wikinews.org/wiki/Татаронь_викис_витни-петнийтне_тейсть_нилеце_Россиясо_Викимедиянь_пурнавкс

Translation into Tatar is also coming along @ 
https://ru.wikinews.org/wiki/Татарча_язучы_викимедиачылар_Россиядә_дүртенче_Викимедиа_кулланучылар_төркемен_төзеде

regards,
farhad

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27.11.2018, 20:15, "Kirill Lokshin" :
> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> [1] the Wikimedia Community of Tatar Language User Group [2] as a Wikimedia
> User Group. The group aims to develop Wikipedia in Tatar into most popular
> content portal of the Tatar-language internet; to grow other Wikimedia
> projects in the Tatar language; and to teach new generations of
> Tatar-language Wikimedians, developing their skills through sharing
> experiences.
>
> Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
>
> Regards,
> Kirill Lokshin
> Chair, Affiliations Committee
>
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Wikimedia_Community_of_Tatar_language_User_Group
> [2]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_of_Tatar_language_User_Group
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] fallout from 2018 Wikimedian of the Year announcement

2018-11-05 Thread 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_report

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&department_id=49064
 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/Умный_регион (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&department_id=84096),
 
* 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/Кулланучы:Тимерхан  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

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04.10.2018, 08:32, "Pine W" :
> 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
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] fallout from 2018 Wikimedian of the Year announcement

2018-10-03 Thread Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin

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/Submission/Wikipedias_in_the_languages_of_Russia:_Growing_multilingualism_online
 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/Минтимер_Шаймиев_встретился_с_татароязычными_викимедистами
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

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04.09.2018, 07:16, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" :
> 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/Главные_сайты_Татарстана_перешли_на_свободную_лицензию
>  ― 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
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference Russia 2018

2018-09-25 Thread Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin

Dear colleagues,

This is just to let you know that this past weekend of 22-23 September we've 
successfully had our 12th Annual Wikimedia Russia Conference, dedicated to 
Wikimedia projects in the languages of Russia, as well as overall challenges of 
free knowledge creation and dissemination.

This year's event was held in Saint Petersburg with live YouTube broadcast from 
the main hall (Opening, presentations, Wiki-award 2018 & Free Knowledge 2018 
Awarding Ceremonies, brainstorming around round table results & closing). With 
32 languages of Russia having their own Wikipedias
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedias_in_the_languages_of_Russia/Tables , 
we naturally use Russian as the working language of our cross languistic 
community events. You can watch the presentations & access the slides from the 
program page below
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Вики-конференция_2018/Программа/en

The event happened to be quite interesting that we started even thinking about 
organizing simultaneous interpretation into English for foreign Wikimedians who 
don't speak/understand Russian.

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

2018-09-05 Thread Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin

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/Список_сайтов_со_свободным_использованием_материалов

It's probably the first time regional government website in the Russian 
Federation quoted Russian Wikinews article 
https://ru.wikinews.org/wiki/Главные_сайты_Татарстана_перешли_на_свободную_лицензию
 ― 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. 

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29.08.2018, 20:56, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" :
> 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 i

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

2018-09-03 Thread Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin

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/Главные_сайты_Татарстана_перешли_на_свободную_лицензию
 ― 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

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>
> 29.08.2018, 20:56, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" :
>>  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 fu

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

2018-08-29 Thread Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin

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 <
> f...@yandex.com> 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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[Wikimedia-l] fallout from 2018 Wikimedian of the Year announcement

2018-08-28 Thread Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin

;  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 <
>  f...@yandex.com> 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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[Wikimedia-l] fallout from 2018 Wikimedian of the Year announcement

2018-08-07 Thread Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin

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" :

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 samp

[Wikimedia-l] Interpreting Wikimedia broadcasts

2018-07-15 Thread Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin

Greetings from Russia!

This is to let you know that beginning with this Wikimania broadcasts
https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program#Remote_attendance
we'll try to volunteer-interpret all Wikimedia live events (or recordings 
thereof) into Russian.  

Last night we tested with a smartphone & tablet using Wikimedia Research 
Showcase - July 2018 as a source & it seems to be working well enough. We 
observed 5-7 sec. delay, speaker speed above 120 words per minute & audio 
quality affecting my delivery results, but that's quite bearable for the 
economy class ticket. As a qualified conference interpreter with some 
experience of helping international groups over the web, I can pull this 
through in my free time.
 
The idea came about seeing the leaked version of the video-address by our 
middle-aged & older Wikimedians from Wikipedias in the languages of Russia 
community recorded for Wikimania-2018 participants (I understand total 
collection is on the way to Cape Town with Oleg Abarnikov of Wikimedia Russia 
from Moscow). It seemed to hint our elders from among participants of our 33 
Active Wikipedias & other projects 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Languages_of_Russia_Community_User_Group/Dashboard/ru
would actually also like to be exposed to whatever the English-speaking 
youngsters are learning via YouTube broadcasts. These local & Russian 
bilinguals are core contributors into local language Wikis, so respecting the 
request of our language guardians seemed important.

Regards,
farhad

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[Wikimedia-l] Russia's First Paper Encyclopedia on Wikimedia Commons

2018-06-27 Thread Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin

«Вся Россия» ("Vs'a Rossiya" / Eng. "All of Russia") Russian-language paper 
encyclopedia  switches to Creative Commons free license.

Encyclopedia's materials about 1448 settlements of the Russian Federation can 
now be used / quoted directly in Russian and translated into other languages.

* Wikimedia Russia press-release
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Пресс-релизы/Первая_бумажная_энциклопедия_в_России_под_свободной_лицензией

* Russian Wikinews
https://ru.wikinews.org/wiki/Первая_бумажная_энциклопедия_в_России_перешла_на_свободную_лицензию

* File on Wikimedia Commons 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vcja_Rossia.pdf

* Russian Wikipedia article about the Encyclopedia 
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Вся_Россия_(энциклопедия)

regards,
farhad

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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Russia Contests

2018-03-16 Thread Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin

Dear Colleagues,

At Wikimedia Russia, we have two following ongoing Article Contests that can be 
of interest to your language communities.

Regards,
farhad - Wikimedia Russia member since 2017
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DISCOVER RUSSIA. CITIES AND REGIONS OF THE 2018 FIFA WORLD CUP
This ongoing Wikipedia articles contest offers monetary prizes to Top-3 winners 
in UN languages other than Russian (nomination 2) & all other languages 
(nomination 3)
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%80%D1%81%D1%8B/%D0%A3%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%8E._%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0_%D0%B8_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%8B_%D0%A7%D0%9C_%D0%BF%D0%BE_%D1%84%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%83_2018/en

DISCOVER RUSSIA. GRADUATES & MENTORS
This ongoing contest offers monetary prizes to top 5 contributors in "UN 
languages other than Russian" (nomination 2) & leading contributors in Japanese 
& German (Special Nomination). 
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%80%D1%81%D1%8B/%D0%A3%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%8E._%D0%92%D1%8B%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%B8_%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8/en

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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia projects in languages with fewer speakers

2017-11-20 Thread Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin

Dear colleagues,

I wonder if this project rings the tune with anyone in other regions:

«Imagine your great-grandkids are growing up at a large space station around 
Mars and national identities on Earth are by then no more important that your 
provincial or city identity are currently. Why should we bother creating 
language nests for them to learn and actively speak say Russian or Spanish, 
Arabic or French, not to mention heritage languages with even smaller number of 
speakers today? And if it's worth it, then how should we do it?»

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedias_in_the_languages_of_Russia/ActionPlan/Linguistic-cultural_identity

regards,
farhad

Wikimedia Russia member - https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Membership

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[Wikimedia-l] Tatarstan student convinces high school principal to try WP in Edication

2017-11-14 Thread Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin

Dear colleagues,

16 y.o. Timerkhan Shaykhutdinov of Zelenodolsk obtained his high school 
director approval to work on improving 
https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Галимҗан_Ибраһимов article instead of writing a 
regular research essay for Tatar language and literature class. Photos from his 
presentation of the results in front of his class are available on Facebook @ 
https://www.facebook.com/groups/352291514949017/permalink/887636508081179/

This is the first such precedent in Tatar-speaking world, in the Republic of 
Tatarstan and, possibly, even within the whole of Russian Federation. I'm 
obviously proud to have been mentoring the guy within Selet WikiSchool project 
https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия:Сәләт_викимәктәбе 

regards,
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[Wikimedia-l] CentralNotice help for Wikimedia Conference Russia / Oct.14-15

2017-09-26 Thread Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin

Hello all, 

Where can I request experienced user's help with CentralNotice banner for 
Wikimedia Conference Russia in Moscow, Oct.14-15? 

At Montreal meeting with WMF staff (James Baldwin, Jaime Villagomez, Winifred 
Olliff, Stephen LaPorte & Charles M. Roslof), it was said Mr. Joseph Seddon 
would be the person to ask for help, but I got no reply to my Sept.19 email. 

I understand there might be more than just placing a request for the banner & 
adding it into the calendar, but I need help with it. I limited the scope to WP 
only, cut down the number of languages & shortened to one week only.

Thank you in advance.
Regards,
farhad

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Request/2017_Wiki_Conference_Russia
 

https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8-%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%84%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F_2017/en

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[Wikimedia-l] Picture of the Day / Wikipedias in the languages of Russia

2017-08-27 Thread Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin

Hello everyone,

This is to let community know that I've successfully completed creating
"Picture of the Day" templates for Mainpages of various Wikipedias in the
languages of Russia
See this project description @ https://meta.wikimedia.org/
wiki/Wikipedias_in_the_languages_of_Russia/ActionPlan/Potd

regards,
farhad

P.S. Reposting it here per Amir's recommendation in the email below.

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27.08.2017, 11:17, "Amir E. Aharoni" :

Nice!

Recommendation: Post it to the Wikimedia-L list. Wikipedia-L is not really
active. Besides, this is something that goes beyond just Wikipedia.

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2017-08-27 11:03 GMT+03:00 Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin <
f...@yandex.com>:

>  Hello everyone,
>
>  This is to let community know that I've successfully completed creating
>  "Picture of the Day" templates for Mainpages of various Wikipedias in the
>  languages of Russia
>  See this project description @ https://meta.wikimedia.org/
>  wiki/Wikipedias_in_the_languages_of_Russia/ActionPlan/Potd
>
>  regards,
>  farhad
>
>  --
>  Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 /
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