Season's Greetings to all and happy upcoming 20th Anniversary! This is a combo update after skipped October one, was very busy after being named into Tatarstan's Tatar language Preservation Commission https://w.wiki/WxA
1) July to late November - had weekly meetings with Tatarstan Parliament's Education, Science and Ethnic Affairs Committee Chief & 3 meetings with the Vice-Speaker 2) August through December has seen 6 article creation contests in Tatar Wikipedia, current one in (5) 3) October - spoke at the Commission's second hearing, giving the rough outline of the Wiki-dimension roadmap & led a Tatarstan Academy of Sciences Institute of History organized seminar on Wiki-editing (wikinews https://w.wiki/uCe) 4) September-November - introducing Tatar Book Publishers (enWP https://w.wiki/uCg) and official regional newspaper (ruWP https://w.wiki/uCh) to free licenses - fırst wants me to develop tt.wikisource.org, its interface & volunteers community to help them start uploading all PD books they store, second one intends to switch to CC-BY (to allow Russian Wikinews to republish their materials & Commons use their files) 5) October-current - developing, launching & doing template tagging / messenger support to participants of "My Tatarstan" article drive contest on Tatar Wikipedia (wikinews - https://w.wiki/tWn) 6) November-current - helping to develop & assure communication strategy for Tatarstan paid editing project (wikinews - https://w.wiki/iA$, Signpost - https://w.wiki/jn3, enWP's COI Noticeboard - https://w.wiki/uCk) 7) December 18 - presented on Tatar Wiki-cooperation with Tatarstan bodies during Federal Agency for Ethnic Affairs organized Annual event (wikinews - https://w.wiki/uCn) 8) Currently I am working towards preparing a detailed presentation of Tatar language project first to the Tatarstan Parliament (in Russian) & then to the President & the Government of the Republic (in Tatar), Wikimedia Research Team agreed to help with developing necessary metrics - see English version PDF of my December presentation (7) for more context https://w.wiki/uD4 Comments: * Russia-community is well-informed * Bashkir editors (especially their grannies) are very active in all Tatar language projects & also create positive Russian Federal-level PR for Wikipedia * Impatiently waiting to see the 34th Wikipedia in the languages of Russia to get approved for leaving the Incubator https://w.wiki/uDY * Bashkir community is successfully showcasing Tatarstan projects in their social networks and to own local stakeholders to incite them to start funding their language version development - they just received news that their grant request was approved by Bashkortostan as part of indigenous languages preservation & development program https://www.bashinform.ru/news/1545734-nazvany-imena-obladateley-grantov-glavy-bashkortostana-na-sokhranenie-i-razvitie-yazykov/ * Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) Wikimedians of Sakha language are not far behind Tatarstan & Bashkortostan colleagues in engaging public authorities & wider local stakeholders into supporting Wiki-Multilingualism (December has seen Wikimedia Russia delegation meeting with their ICT & Digital Development Ministry, GLAMs, press-conference in the regional news agency https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvMHLSsi4SI & even a weekly news TV program episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p1S_Jgxw9s&feature=youtu.be&t=5m01s * Looking for ways how all this can be institutionalized, happy to see yesterday's Movement Communications focus group colleagues understand such personal activity marathons can't go long as an unfunded purely volunteer effort (Work/Life/Wiki balance) regards, farhad -- Farhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 / skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan / Wikidata:Q34036417 _______________________________________________ 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>
