Il giorno mer 29 ago 2018 19:56 Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin <
frhd(a)yandex.com> ha scritto:
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_…
& 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
--
Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин
http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 /
skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
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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