Dear colleagues, This is a request for your input and possible ideas (if any) regarding my management of the fallout from Jimmy's announcing myself as a 2018 Wikimedian of the Year.
Emails below are a copy of my ongoing consultations with Wikimedia Foundation staff and other Wikimedians I personally know, as well as a report on what's already brewing in my region of Russia after this unexpected outcome. I would be grateful, if you can advise me on how to properly steer the enthusiasm of behalf of regional government, mass-media, NGOs, etc. which have just discovered about the possibility of participation in Wikimedia movement (think anything from U.S. is not getting much in-depth coverage in Russian by sources that regional public figures, NGOs, teachers or general regional journalists read) & are now placing great hopes on teaching whole of Tatarstan about how to Wiki & also engaging all Tatars globally (3/4 outside of Tatarstan, 1/5 outside of Russia). regards, farhad Updates: * Selet WikiSchool got presented to wider public @ the press-conference for Tatar-speaking journalists (July 31), at the poster session in the framework of the World Congress of Tatars Youth Forum (Aug.3), and later at a Tatar projects fair in the Downtown park of Kazan (Aug.5) * Contribution of those writing into Wikipedia in Tatar was recognized by choosing myself as one of the current year's "For the great service to Tatar nation" medal recipients. (Aug.3) * We recorded a 40 min interview in Turkish (Aug.4, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK3tFBWMWcs ) * We didn't yet meet the President of the Republic (his schedule changed once again), but I got another firm request to meet with the Minister for Youth Affairs (another good acquaintance of mine, ex-member of local Comedy Club type activity), as well as with the Head of World Congress of Tatars' Executive Bureau, and more TV & written press interviews are lining up. * I am trying to manage these guys' optimism & desire to move quickly, keeping in mind they are not really familiar with the Wiki-way or our communities' policies & practices * Bashkir (ba) & Sakha (sah) communities have shared advice about how to assure that local Wikimedia community stays clearly independent in a cultural environment where neither Education, nor GLAM programs will attract local partners unless those have a strong support of the regional or federal government entities. * Looking forward to meet with my Wikimania-2017 roommate from the Philippines in Singapore on Aug.16 to collect some more input from Asia -------- Пересылаемое сообщение-------- 03.08.2018, 19:35, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" <[email protected]>: Thursday, 2 August 2018 Republic of Tatarstan Ministry for Informatization & Communication @ IT-park, Kazan 18:00-20:50 Meeting with Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister - Minister for Informatization & Communications Roman Shaykhutdinov http://mic.tatarstan.ru/eng/minister.htm on opportunities Wikimedia projects & popularization thereof among the population of the Republic can bring for Tatarstan In attendance: * Almaz A. Valiullin, Director General of Tatarstan Center for Information Technologies http://mic.tatarstan.ru/eng/valiullin.htm * Tatyana S. Kamaletdinova, CEO of Tatarstan Center for Information Technologies http://mic.tatarstan.ru/eng/kamaletdinova.htm * Anna V. Yakovleva, Head of Ministry's Press-Service http://mic.tatarstan.ru/rus/about/structure_new?department_id=80576 * Farkhad N. Fatkullin, 2018 Wikimedian of the Year, Wikimedia Russia member https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Frhdkazan Agenda: 1. Content creation contests 2. Education projects 3. How can these be organized in a systemic way, engaging students throughout all municipal districts of Tatarstan & Tatar diaspora globally, and assessing effectiveness of measures 4. Larger Tatar language internet development, promoting content creation in the language 5. .tatar domain 6. ContentTranslation 7. Generating lists for content creation 8. Free licenses 9. Wikidata 10. Regional educational Wiki-seminar for beginners, introduction & orientation 11. Smartphone oriented educational projects around Tatar & Tatar Wikipedia (beginning with Tatar version of www.kakprav.com & on to WOK Master type ) 12. OSM in Tatar 13. The way forward: visiting WMF to discover other opportunities, MoU with WMF? Decided: 1. Almaz Valiullin to head the Working Group on behalf of the Ministry 2. Next meeting set for / around 20th of August 3. Minister requested his staff to draft documents regarding moving all Regional & Municipal budget funded websites to CC-BY type free licenses 4. Minister proposed every organization website place a link to a Wikipedia article about it (in Tatar, Russian or English, depending on the language used) 5. Help is requested about developing simple samples or article creation guidelines for various institutions of Tatarstan & diaspora organizations to learn what is considered appropriate by Wiki-community & how should representatives of respective entities 6. Annual Tatar Internet Awards Ceremony to include awards to leading editors of Wikimedia projects in Tatar 7. Help is requested to develop a framework of Wikipedia Article Contests for Secondary School Children of Tatastan, with article quality assessment schemes (prizes & organization to be funded by Tatarstan goverment, promotion in local mass-media, schools & etc.) 8. Help is requested to develop a framework for a sustainable functioning of a Tatarstan & Tatar language oriented Wikimedia thematic organization to be responsible for systemic work around developing & promoting Wikimedia projects in Tatar, as well as Tatarstan-oriented content creation for various Wikis 9. Readiness to consider awarding *.tatar domain names to those, who develop attractive projects in Tatar that can't be hosted on Wikimedia platform or otherwise need a Tatar digital identity 10. Help is requested regarding drafting a program proposal, necessary budget & expected results for a Tatarstan oriented introductory Wiki-seminar, open for a wide public 11. Help is requested to provide links to Wikidata educational materials, Practical Use Cases & expert responses to the Deputy Minister (in English) 12. Help is requested in organizing a learning visit to WMF Headquarters during Tatarstan Delegation annual fall visit to Silicon Valley & other places in U.S. to discover other opportunities -- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 / skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan 03.08.2018, 11:42, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" <[email protected]>: > Hi Nochole & Kui, > > Thank you for your responses & readiness to help. > > Events on the ground are developing following predictable course - we had a > very constructive 3 hour long discussion last night with Tatarstan's Deputy > Prime Minister (IT minister) & his team, whilst earlier Thursday I got an > invite to meet with another Deputy Prime Minister (President of the National > Council of Trustees for the World Congress of Tatars Association). > > More TV & magazine interviews are expected, some in detail articles in > Russian promoting Wikimedia projects are in the pipelines (expecting to see > the texts for necessary corrections & adding links to respective WMRU, Meta, > WMF & related independent media articles (thanks to ComCom). > > I hope to find time to prepare & email both you (in English) & IT ministry's > Working Group (in Russian) my summary of yesterday late evening meeting, with > attendees, topics discussed, request & proposals, etc. They want to move as > fast as possible, because this will help them to meet promoting Tatar > language use online task they are charged with by the region's President. > > Just a few to begin with: > * Ready to move all regional and municipal government websites into CC-BY, > add links to respective WP articles from all these > * Willing to have Tatarstan & Tatar language oriented thematic organization > in place to work with secondary schools & Universities, GLAMS, diaspora > * Ready to sponsor prizes for article writing contests (either through WMRU > or this new entity) > * Requesting guidance from myself & Wikimedia community on what's the best > way to make this all successful > * Interested in supporting WMRU organized general public educational > Wiki-Seminar in Tatarstan Academy of Sciences or other respected facility > with a large conference hall open to all public (September-October?) > * Willing to visit WMF headquarters in November to meet, learn more about > what's there (I admit I don't read all mailing lists or Meta discussions, > don't have time to see all wonderful YouTube videos available, haven't yet > have time to visit a single Wikimedia Conference) & possibly sign MoUs or > whatever that would help speed up Wikimedia acceptance & popularity growth > among the population of the region. > > I am in touch with Wikimedia RU & Wikimedia Languages of Russia Community's > regarding ongoing developments, benefiting from collective wisdom of > Wikimedians I know. > > Should you be ready to bring any ideas to the table, please shoot them my way. > > regards, > farhad > > -- > Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 / > skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan > > 02.08.2018, 16:35, "Nichole Saad" <[email protected]>: >> Hi Farhad, >> >> First, congratulations on being named "Wikimedian of the Year!" We have >> received your letter, and are looking forward to engage with your ideas. >> Realistically, I'll be able to provide a more in depth response early next >> week. >> >> best regards, >> >> Nichole >> >> On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 2:45 PM Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Dear Sirs, >>> >>> This is from Farhad, User:frhdkazan (ComCom member, now a.k.a. 2018 >>> Wikimedian of the Year) with some proposals about how to leverage a >>> fleeting opportunity I got. Please read the text below this letter ASAP & >>> think how you can help seize the moment. I'm looking forward to first ideas >>> within 24 hours from now. >>> >>> Any support of yours would be greatly appreciated. >>> Thanks a million. >>> regards, >>> farhad >>> >>> P.S. More on where I'm coming from can later be discovered @ >>> http://frhd.narod.ru/resume-en.htm (dated, stopped my retainer contract >>> with the Office of Tatarstan President in September 2013) & more up-to-date >>> but in Russian @ http://sikzn.narod.ru/index/0-4 . I have previously >>> translated & provided digital media with the link to Russian text of >>> Wikimedia Blog post about Jess Wade >>> https://ru.wikinews.org/wiki/?curid=176108 , & now contacted Asian >>> colleagues to get similar content about Nahid Sultan & Wikimedia >>> Bangladesh. Also on my agenda is to record a video-interview in Turkish for >>> Wikimedia Turkey's communication campaign - I speak the language & we are >>> in touch with Turkish community. I also need to get back to interpreting >>> into Russian videos of Wikimania-2018 available on YouTube - maybe later >>> this week, before I join my family for a few days off & then a week-long >>> interpretation assignment in Singapore. >>> >>> -- >>> Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 / >>> skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan >>> >>> TRIGGER >>> Following Jimmy's unexpected pass during Wikimania-2018 Closing Ceremony, I >>> became an instant celebrity of sort - myself alone I've seen over 40 >>> articles with positive PR about Wikipedia & wider body of Wikimedia >>> projects, >>> * one by RT in Russian collecting over 1.1 million Facebook likes in under >>> 8 hours from publication >>> * short positive ones from Russian Federation government's Official gazette >>> & Russkiy Mir Foundation >>> * first ever mention that people can donate to Wikimedia Russia volunteers >>> organization for us to be able to fund local Wiki-seminars, conferences & >>> contests (WMF is not funding Wikimedia Russia & can't allow us to use >>> donate link from Russian Wikipedia or place a link to "Thank you, but we >>> don't accept donations from Russia" page where users from Russia are being >>> routed >>> * about to get one with links published to various WMF & Wikimedia Russia >>> projects, including promoting free licenses, Education & GLAM programs, etc. >>> I'm periodically collecting these @ >>> https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия:Безнең_турында_матбугатта#Ел_викимедиачысы >>> when time permits, but there's more in my Facebook Messenger. >>> >>> CONTEXT >>> This is also generating very positive attention on behalf of the Republic >>> of Tatarstan government, as well as our regional NGO partner, Selet Youth >>> Education Foundation, with whom yet unrecognized Tatar Wikimedians are >>> jointly running Selet WikiSchool project. >>> https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/May_2018/Selet_WikiSchool >>> The latter want to introduce this joint initiative, as well as Wikimedia >>> Russia executive director Stanislav Kozlovsky (Ph.D. in Psychology, >>> Researcher & a Senior lecturer at Moscow State University) and myself to >>> the President of Tatarstan during his visit to their Annual International >>> Forum of Tatar-speaking High-School Age Youth on August 6th. Unrelated to >>> that I was yesterday called up by a good acquaintance of mine (Tatarstan >>> Vice Prime-Minister, Minister for IT >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Shaykhutdinov ), who invited me to have >>> a talk with him tomorrow about how promoting Wikimedia projects in wider >>> Tatar-speaking world (only about 25% of Tatars live in Tatarstan) can help >>> him get whatever current President wants him to do to develop Tatar >>> language use online. There are some other Tatarstan Prime-Minister Office >>> level things in the pipeline, & I am also waiting for a call from Russian >>> Federation ex-IT Minister https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_Nikiforov , >>> whom I know from his years in Tatarstan government as well (until 2012). >>> FYI: Wikimedia movement is still unknown in Russia, with local mass media >>> outlets are predominantly speaking about Wikipedia in Russian when there is >>> some lapse that can be exploited to show one's Russian patriotism & thus >>> score some points (basically same political circus, as what we are seeing >>> in U.S. with Russia-collusion story in the overdrive, just opposite >>> direction), and here we get something to reverse the situation big time, >>> explaining to the wide public that it's not only Ok, but even desirable >>> they engage with Wikimedia projects. >>> >>> IDEA >>> Keeping in mind that Tatarstan President is the head of both Russia-Islamic >>> World Strategic Vision Group & Association of Innovative Regions of Russia, >>> Jimmy gave me a-hell-of-an-opportunity for an elevator pitch for Wikimedia >>> movement in Russia and some adjacent counties (think Turkey & Central >>> Asia), and I would really hate seeing it go unused. I will do my part here >>> (about CC-BY for regional government controlled websites, Wikipedia >>> Education Program as an extracurricular activity in all secondary school & >>> universities, GLAM, as well as some locally funded carrots for >>> participants), but I also want your help in driving this to a home-run. >>> Every fall Tatarstan President & the delegation is visiting Silicon Valley >>> & other places of interest in U.S. & it would be great if we could set-up a >>> physical visit to Wikimedia Foundation, with a first hand presentation of >>> best international practices the movement if proud of & have some MoU on >>> cooperation signed (as a bureaucratic basis for continuing the >>> conversation) with either some department in Tatarstan government, just >>> like the one you signed with the Mexican Ministry of Culture >>> www.eluniversal.com.mx/cultura/secretaria-de-cultura-y-wikimedia-firman-convenio-de-colaboracion. >>> To set the context, Tatarstan has such formal documents with a number of >>> American companies & institutions, with our private English-speaking IT >>> Univesity @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innopolis having been developed >>> jointly with Carnegie Mellon University (with consultancy fees paid by >>> Tatastan), we have Russia's first publicly funded hospital certified to be >>> meeting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Commission requirements & >>> plenty of U.S. investors @ our >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabuga_Special_Economic_Zone . On top of >>> this, we could benefit from having Selet Youth Educational movement >>> http://selet.biz/en/ to embrace Wiki even further, so maybe a similar MoU >>> on collaboration between them and Wikiedu.org signed simultaneously would >>> be great (I met LiAnna and Jami in Montreal last year & was really >>> impressed with what these guys are doing). >>> >>> REQUEST >>> Please shoot something my way before the same time tomorrow, for me to >>> handle the meeting with Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister more effectively to >>> progressively open other opportunities I've touched on. On top of what I >>> described above & my last year's ideas @ >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Frhdkazan/Wiki4RegionalDevt (in >>> Russian), I'll be bringing to the table topics of: >>> * Wikidata >>> * OSM, as well as a >>> * WOK-like project for all things in Tatar (I was contacted by a local 9th >>> grader who, on his own initiative with a help of a teacher, did something >>> similar for students who want to train for Russian-language SAT/ACT type >>> exam www.kakprav.com & now offered to develop such or bigger thing for >>> Tatar). For more on WOK, see >>> https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/01/wikipedia-wok-seek-nigerian-content-online/ >>> * whatever else you or anybody else can help me think of until then & or >>> later opportunities >> >> -- >> Nichole Saad >> Wikimedia Foundation | Senior Program Manager, Education >> [email protected] >> user: NSaad (WMF) -------- Конец пересылаемого сообщения -------- -- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 / skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
