On 7 August 2018 at 21:55, Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin frhd@yandex.com 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,