Thanks for picking this challenge up with such enthusiasm!
Lodewijk
On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 6:58 AM Alex Stinson astinson@wikimedia.org wrote:
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@wikimedia.org wrote:
Farkhad,
It's fantastic to see what you're doing with this. Thank you.
//Johan Jönsson
On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 2:09 PM, Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin < frhd@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
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/
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09.08.2018, 09:09, "Pine W" wiki.pine@gmail.com:
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@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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