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 <jjonsson(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Farkhad,
It's fantastic to see what you're doing with this. Thank you.
//Johan Jönsson
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On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 2:09 PM, Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin <
frhd(a)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
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09.08.2018, 09:09, "Pine W" <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com>om>:
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 <
frhd(a)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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