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

[Фархад Фаткуллин / Farhad Fatkullin]

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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skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan / Wikidata:Q34036417


21.07.2019, 23:16, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farhad Fatkullin" :
> Dear colleagues,
>
> Over the course of last 3 months we have:
see further @ 
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2019-July/093090.html

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

[Samuel Klein]

Very warmly seconded!!  SJ

On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 9:53 PM effe iets anders 
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 <
> f...@yandex.com> 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_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" <
> f...@yandex.com
> > >:
> > > 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 

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

[effe iets anders]

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 <
f...@yandex.com> 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_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, 

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] fallout from 2018 Wikimedian of the Year announcement

[Jennifer Pryor-Summers]

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 <
f...@yandex.com> 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_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 & 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/Проект:Татар_4.0
> Lessons learnt in Russian -
> https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Умный_регион/Многоязычие/Татарский/Татар_4.0
>
> This all follows our February presentation
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/February_2019/Contents/Russia_report#Tatarstan_pilot_of_%C2%ABSmart_Region%C2%BB_initiative_presented_to_the_Russian_Federation_Deputy_Prime-Minister
>
> 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" <
> f...@yandex.com>:
> >>  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
> >>
> >>  --
> >>  Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 /
> skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
> >>
> >>  14.01.2019, 19:10, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" <
> f...@yandex.com>:
> >>>   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 

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

[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 & 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/Проект:Татар_4.0
Lessons learnt in Russian - 
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Умный_регион/Многоязычие/Татарский/Татар_4.0

This all follows our February presentation 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/February_2019/Contents/Russia_report#Tatarstan_pilot_of_%C2%ABSmart_Region%C2%BB_initiative_presented_to_the_Russian_Federation_Deputy_Prime-Minister

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/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
>>
>>  --
>>  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 

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

[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/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
>
> --
> 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_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_id=49064
>>>  who officially invited me to engage Wikimedia Russia and other Wikimedia 
>>> movement volunteers to develop "Smart wiki-region" 

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

[Andrea Zanni]

Il giorno mer 29 ago 2018 19:56 Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin <
f...@yandex.com> 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-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" :
> > 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
> > 

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

[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

-- 
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_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_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_id=84096),
>>  * a large body of regional ministers
>>  ** Tatar 

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

[camelia boban]

Wow Farkhad, ideally we will be with you.

Camelia

On Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 5:10 PM Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin <
f...@yandex.com 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_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_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_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 

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

[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_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_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 

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

[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_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_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

-- 
Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 / 
skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan


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
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] fallout from 2018 Wikimedian of the Year announcement

[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
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] fallout from 2018 Wikimedian of the Year announcement

[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

-- 
Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 / 
skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan


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
>
> --
> Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 / 
> skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
>>  29.08.2018, 20:56, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" :
>>>   Dear colleagues,
>>>
>>>   Since yesterday all 

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

[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. 

regards,
farhad
-- 
Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 / 
skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan


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 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 

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

[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

--
Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 / 
skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
>
> 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 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 

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

[effe iets anders]

Thanks for picking this challenge up with such enthusiasm!

Lodewijk

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 6:58 AM Alex Stinson  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 
> 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 <
> > f...@yandex.com> 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). 

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

[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 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" :
> 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 

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

[Alex Stinson]

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 
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 <
> f...@yandex.com> 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 

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

[Johan Jönsson]

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 <
f...@yandex.com> 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" :
> >  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 

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

[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 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" :
>  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 

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

[Pine W]

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 <
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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[Andy Mabbett]

On 7 August 2018 at 21:55, Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin
 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,

-- 
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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

[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

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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 samples or article creation 
guidelines for various institutions of Tatarstan & diaspora organizations to 
learn what is