Отдельные коллеги из англоязычного мира высказали опасение, что включение ознакомления с
работой в проектах Викимедиа во внеклассную работу по татарскому языку в Татарстане, лишь
недавно (в 2008 году) получившем свою независимость от России, может однажды привести к
тому, что "Официальный Татарстан" сможет начать продвигать свою точку зрения на
чувствительные политические вопросы как в татароязычном, так и в русскоязычном разделах
Википедии, что может привести к напряжению и так вероятно острой межэтнической ситуации в
регионе.
Началось всё со странного завуалированного опасения в публичном ответе одной из
англоязычных коллег на моё письмо в рассылку wikimedia-l про то, что Президент Татарстана
распорядился о важности изучения возможности использования проектов Викимедиа в
образовании. Сначала уточнил вопрос в личной переписке. взял недельный тайм-аут на
обдумывание (т.к. работал), публично ответил только сегодня, вынеся в отдельную тему
"Smart partnerships with strong external stakeholders a way forward? / Умные
партнёрства с сильными внешними стейкхолдерами: дорога вперёд?" Зашёл издалека и с
намерением поднять более серьёзные вопросы в долгосрочной перспективе.
В выходные вёл переписку с сотрудником Фонда Викимедиа Асафом Бартовым на предмет того,
как волонтёрам и объединениям Движения Викимедиа лучше поддерживать "Викимедийцев
Года" в рамках реализации проектов, что могут быть полезными для сообщества той или
иной страны, культуры или языка. До стокгольмской Викимании 2019 остаётся 3 с небольшим
месяца, надеятся повторить случайный успех в Татарстане и думают над системными мерами
помощи тем, кому судьба оказаться следующими.
Тимерхан сообщил, что публичного вручения сертификатов участникам статейного конкурса
"Татар 4.0" в рамках ежегодной акции Всемирного форума татарской молодёжи
"Я говорю по-татарски" не предусмотрено. Сертификаты и дипломы (победителям)
будут рассылаться, обещал в ближайшее время подготовить проект трёхъязычного документа,
вручаемого от имени Всемирного форума татарской молодёжи, Викимедиа РУ и татароязычной
юзер-группы. В моих планах здесь завершить описание всех вынесенных уроков на русском
языке (подготовка участников и членов жюри, планирование задач и времени организаторов на
поддержку, и т.д.)
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Умный_регион/Многоязычие/Татарский/Татар_4.0
С уважением,
фархад
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30.04.2019, 20:30, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farhad Fatkullin"
<frhd(a)yandex.com>om>:
Dear colleagues,
This thread is the consequence of my thinking over Jennifer's concerns [1] to what
I've seen as a routine progress report on Wikimedia Education Program Russia, which
she later kindly deciphered to me off the list (see below for original).
We periodically see signs of various individuals or interest groups using Wikipedia to
their advantage on a limited scale, so Jennifer is rightly pondering on how should
Wikimedians develop relationships with strong partners theoretically capable of abusing
our supposedly neutral projects: governments, businesses, NGOs, various religious &
ideological groups, etc.
Wikimedia communities want to welcome new active users in large numbers, so we are to
follow the principle of good intentions, trust them and help them to learn how to operate
onwiki. At the same time, can we feel comfortable that we can prevent the loss of control
over what's going on in our projects or being fully overtaken by some outside party
interested to push its own agenda using Wikimedia platforms?
I believe we have all means for this. I am also confident that to advance towards the
world of Wikimedia movement vision [2] & Wikipedia purpose,[3] we need to make sure
that every human being feels welcome on our projects & interested in their sustainable
growth.
Before we start similar 360 degree stakeholder engagement initiatives within 6 official UN
languages, those of G20 and maybe even any primary language of a sovereign UN member, my
guess is we might want to test such initiatives in a less tense setting, working closely
with government & publicly-funded institutions, private sector, non-profits or
individuals in an environment with less interference from political, ideological or
commercial interests. Best candidates are probably mid-sized projects in the language of
some non-sovereign ethnic nation that represent little to no interest for whatever outside
organized party to gain control of.
In the Russian Federation, we are currently in the process of such an experiment around
Wikipedia & other Wikimedia projects in Tatar, which I happen to speak by birth within
this language community. When starting on this path in the fall of 2018, I was comforted
to learn about "Kumusha takes Wiki" initiative, that was implemented in
2013-2014 in French-speaking Cote d'Ivoire and English-speaking Uganda with the
support of by Orange Foundation & presented during WikiIndaba 2014.[4]
As a member of Wikimedia Russia, I am documenting our steps in WMRU-wiki both in the
regional [5] as well as in the linguistic development aspects, [6] periodically sharing
progress reports with the wider public via [wikimedia-ru] list,[7] Wikimedia Community
Languages of Russia on Facebook [8] & Russian Wikinews, for my colleagues from other
regions of Russia with strong regional languages & other members of the community to
be able to apply whatever we learn, if they find it appropriate for their socio-economic
environments.[9]
The working hypothesis is that giving all speakers of Tatar or whatever other language the
feeling of collective ownership of respective language Wikimedia projects should be a safe
way forward. Our progress reports are almost exclusively in Russian, which is the best
medium of communication in my case: I am currently working on this almost alone, whilst
local stakeholders reasonably expecting to see some track-record, proofs and other
explanatory materials before getting onboard at every step of the way. Tatar is not
dominant language even within the region with high concentration of Tatar speakers, whilst
the share of English speakers in Russia is @ 5%, even less in case of Tatarstan.
Tatar is a language spoken mainly by an eponymous defacto stateless ethnic group of over 5
million people living predominantly inside the Russian Federation (second in number after
ethnic Russians). It has a second official language status within the Republic of
Tatarstan (a region-subject of the Russian state since 1552, home to about 1/3 of Tatars,
amounting here to slightly over 50%), where Russian is clearly dominant in politics,
economics, education, social life, etc. even among Tatars themselves. With its current
85000 articles & under 100 active participants a month Tatar Wikipedia seems a good
fit - it's in Top-10 websites in respective language (including groups in Facebook
& VK social networks) thanks to being part of Wikimedia constellation.
We seem to be in ideal circumstances to pilot this with least consequences for Wikimedia
movement, as WMF is neither fundraising in Russia (no grant money this way), nor allowing
local affiliates to place fundraising banners/links in respective language Wikipedias
& other Wikimedia projects over the geographic territory of Russia. At the same time,
we received a blessing of a respected Senior elder, retired Ex-President of Tatarstan,
having the title of UNESCO Special Envoy for Intercultural Dialogue,[10] whilst
Wikimedians from other projects in the languages of Russia called on Tatar community to
make it successful to scale it throughout the country.[11]
Going forward, I would suspect Tatarstan goverment that shows its interest to make
Wikimedia Education Program part of Tatar language curriculum or extracurricular
activities might eventually want to sign an MOU or a similar document with the Wikimedia
Foundation and/or local affiliates (just like Mexican ministry of Culture, Government of
the Indian State of Maharashtra, Italian Ministry of Education or Nigerian Tourism
Development Board, to mention just a few cases I have personally read about). We don't
see this happening in the English-speaking part of Wikimedia world, probably for cultural
reasons, but everywhere else it seems to be a natural step in formalizing partnerships
relations. All Tatars are at least bilingual and bi-cultural, so tolerance levels for
differing points of view are generally quite high edit wars around ethnic, civil &
other identity related topics rare.
regards,
farhad
P.S. Jennifer, Republic of Tatarstan was never an independent state & 2008
independence you mention is likely to be confusion with the Republic of Abkhazia or the
Republic of Southern Osetia that gained their independence from the Republic of Georgia.
Landlocked inside Russia, Tatarstan claimed its limited sovereignty at the collapse of
Soviet Union (as it was unable to become the 16th Republic of USSR due to the dissolution
thereof), at the same time showing it's intent to clearly stay associated with the
nascent Russian Federation. Respective association documents were signed in 1994, some 14
years before the event you mention. We have Russian passports, serving in the Russian
military, our athletes competing for the national teams. First President of Tatarstan
Mintimer Shaimiev & First President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin were
friends & colleagues since Soviet Union times, growing through the ranks in parallel,
having shared many meals together over the decades in power.
[1]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2019-April/092265.html
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Vision
[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Purpose
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kumusha_Takes_Wiki/en
[5]
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Smart_region/Tatarstan
[6]
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Smart_region/Multilingualism/Tatar
[7]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/
[8]
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1942496925980407/
[9]
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Умный_регион/Направления/Региональное_многояз…
[10]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-October/091151.html
[11]
https://ru.wikinews.org/wiki/Комментарии:Минтимер_Шаймиев_встретился_с_тата…
--
Farhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин
http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 / skype:frhdkazan /
Wikipedia:frhdkazan / Wikidata:Q34036417
23.04.2019, 21:33, "Jennifer Pryor-Summers"
<jennifer.pryorsummers(a)gmail.com>om>:
Farhad
When a government adds contributing to Wikipedia to its national curriculum, especially
if it involves spending public time and money, it is likely to expect that both the
pre-existing material and the additional controbutions to reflect the requirements of that
national curriculum, which in turn are likely to reflect the national values and spcific
positions. For example, Tatastan has claimed independence from Russia as recently as
2008. Can we be sure that the Tatar-language and Russian-language Wikipedia entries will
be independent of any official position on this and other sensitive questions of national
importance?
JPS
On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 8:02 AM Фархад Фаткуллин / Farhad Fatkullin
<frhd(a)yandex.com> wrote:
> Dear Jennifer,
>
> I feel you have put more thought into your question than I can grasp right away.
>
> Please give me more context and some examples to help me understand whatever might
be of possible concern in this piece of Wikimedia Education Program Russia related
progress news.
>
> I would prefer to respond in full without causing back & forth ping-pong.
>
> Thank you in advance,
> farhad
>
> --
> Sent from Yandex.Mail for mobile
>
> 20:15, April 22, 2019, "Jennifer Pryor-Summers"
<jennifer.pryorsummers(a)gmail.com>om>:
>> 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 <
>> frhd(a)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/Russi…
>>>
>>> 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/Russi…
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> farhad
>>>
>>> --
>>> Farhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин
http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 /
>>> skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan / Wikidata:Q34036417
>>>