Some news:
I managed to get vocal approval of the proposal to transfer Wiki-competencies to Tatarstan
public by Federal Deputy Prime-Minister Maxim Akimov and had Regional President Rustam
Minnikhanov express his invitation to the subject-minister (Vice Prime-Minister of
Tatarstan - InfoComm minister Roman Shaykhutdinov) to prepare necessary proposals for
organizing the process in a successful scalable way. I will have to do more thinking and
writing now so as to try have this implemented first in my Republic, then across Russia.
I was given less than a minute during pre-Conference tour of the project stands prepared
by corporations and state enterprises (without slides or any visual support), so I had to
skim to the very facts and the value proposition that would get their attention.
On a more tangible side,
that I started
back in 2016, will get support from the regional budget & thus expand. Currently this
is on the shoulders of a team consisting of high-school senior, a University freshman and
a sophomore/junior from one rural school.
regards,
farhad
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Тел.+79274158066 / skype:frhdkazan /
Wikipedia:frhdkazan
17.01.2019, 18:35, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin"
<frhd(a)yandex.com>om>:
Dear colleagues,
You can track my preparation in English @
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Умный_регион/05.02.2019/en (date move to accommodate VIP
participants' schedules).
I had to skim my original 18 minute text to under 7.
I intend to touch on most of what had to go via the Slides which will accompany my talk.
Tatar components will be prepared last, as Russian and English are best tools for getting
feedback from across the Wiki-world.
regards,
farhad
--
Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин
http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 / skype:frhdkazan
/ Wikipedia:frhdkazan
14.01.2019, 19:10, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin"
<frhd(a)yandex.com>om>:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> This is a heads-up on the fact that on Jan.29 I will be speaking in Tatar (with
simultaneous interpretation of my words into Russian) at the Republic of Tatarstan
Ministry for ICT closing conference for 2018 in front of the President of the Republic,
Russia's Federal minister for ICT, members of Tatarstan government, industry & the
press, possibly some participants from nearby regional ministries.
>
> I will have some 7-10 min to present on
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Smart_region ,
rough English translation for the base page completed today.
>
> It will be a basic intro level talk accompanied by slides about some things that
can be appropriately mentioned without overburdening the public hearing about
Wiki-community activities for the first time in their lives. I will email you draft text
around the end of the week (once I am comfortable with it), with some ideas on the slides
I will play along my speech and a list of recommended follow-on measures.
>
> Expected outcome: Presidential instruction to the Tatarstan government to for a
cross-departmental working group to study what ICT ministry led Wikimedia working group
(since August 2018) has came up with & look into possible way of integrating this into
Tatarstan social life (I was offered to formulate it myself today).
>
> Other related Wikimedia Russia news:
>
> * On or around Feb.8, we are to have first follow-on introduction of Wikipedia
Education Program to wider professors & students' body of Kazan Federal University
Institute for International Relations, with director of which we had a productive meeting
on Dec.21, following the events described in
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/December_2018/Contents/Russi…
>
> * On Feb.28-March 1 we are invited to field speakers for
http://eduforumkazan.ru/
(attended by Russia's Federal Minister for Education and her team)
>
> regards,
> farhad
>
> --
> Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин
http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 /
skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
>
> 05.11.2018, 17:22, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin"
<frhd(a)yandex.com>om>:
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> Below is my October activities report & description of upcoming events
>>
>> 1) On Oct.13-14 at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2018
we presented some of the things we are doing in Russia (FYI: without any WMF grants). See
details at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/October_2018/Contents/Russia…
>>
>> 2) On Oct.20 I had a two hour long meeting with the Deputy head of Tatarstan
Presidential Adiministration responsible for internal policy
http://president.tatarstan.ru/eng/apparat/structure?person_id=19792&dep…
who officially invited me to engage Wikimedia Russia and other Wikimedia movement
volunteers to develop "Smart wiki-region" roadmap for regional authorities
throughout the Russian Federation to start learning about the Wikimedia movement and
understanding how partnering therewith could be of mutual interests. This was a follow up
of the Oct.1 meeting with Mintimer Shaimiev
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-October/091151.html, but mainly
around my last year's musings I finally finished translating into English today @
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Frhdkazan/Wiki4RegionalDevt
>>
>> 3) On Oct.23 We have started growing the project on WMRU-wiki at
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Умный_регион (currently in Russian only), using also
eponymous thread at [wikimedia-ru] mailing list (last message
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2018-November/004914.html ).
>>
>> 4) In mid-November we are expecting to have a presentation of the project and
our domestic experience
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Selet_WikiSchool at the large
meeting called on by the ex-President of Tatarstan, State Councillor to the Republic,
UNESCO Special envoy for Intercultural Dialogue Mintimer Shaimiev
http://shaimiev.tatarstan.ru/eng - with invitation of
>> * First Deputy Head of the Tatarstan Presidential Administration
(
http://president.tatarstan.ru/eng/apparat/structure?person_id=32&depart…)096),
>> * a large body of regional ministers
>> ** Tatar community affairs
http://prav.tatarstan.ru/eng/pravit/3.htm
>> ** Education and science
http://mon.tatarstan.ru/eng/rukov/minister.htm
>> ** ICT
http://mic.tatarstan.ru/eng/minister.htm
>> ** Culture
http://mincult.tatarstan.ru/eng/rukov/minister.htm
>> ** Youth affairs
http://prav.tatarstan.ru/rus/pravit/ministr-min-molodezhi
>> * head of regional media holding
http://tatmedia.tatarstan.ru/eng/director.htm
>> * head of the Institute of Tatar encyclopedia
http://antat.ru/ru/ite/staff/5679/
>> * head of the House of Friendship of Nations of Tatarstan
http://addnt.ru/house/management/director/
>>
>> 5) Tomorrow morning I will be meeting with the Vice-Primier - Minister for the
ICT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Shaykhutdinov for preliminary discussions, then my
high-school senior Timerkhan
https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Кулланучы:Тимерхан will assist
him the next day at the preparatory meeting with
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mintimer_Shaimiev.
>>
>> 6) I didn't yet have time to think in detail about the potential schedule
or invited participants of the first public Wiki-seminar in Tatarstan, meant to expose
locals to the Wikimedia movement and its best practices even if only via the
video-conference (which I mentioned in the previous update), because I am doing this in
between of my rather demanding work and some limited family life. The topic will most
likely surface among other things tomorrow.
>>
>> regards,
>> farhad
>>
>> --
>> Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин
http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 /
skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
>>
>> 04.10.2018, 08:32, "Pine W" <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com>om>:
>>> Hi Farhad,
>>>
>>> I'm very impressed with your successes so far.
>>>
>>> My main concern is how much of this you seem to be doing by yourself. I
>>> hope that you have a group of people who are collaborating with you so
that
>>> you don't feel responsible for doing everything personally, and that
you
>>> aren't putting yourself into personal financial difficulty due to the
>>> amount of time that you're spending on Wikimedia activities.
>>>
>>> Regarding which people would be good to invite to a conference, I think
>>> that GLAM and educational organizations would be natural partners so I
>>> suggest starting with them.
>>>
>>> WMF might be willing to provide you with some advice and/or funding for
>>> GLAM or education related work if you request it, although the wait times
>>> for WMF "Rapid Grants" funding seem to have become lengthy, so I
suggest
>>> that if you want funding from that program that you should request it at
>>> least two full months in advance and not rely on receiving it in time for
>>> any particular deadline.
>>>
>>> I'm glad to hear that you're participating in Wikimedia CEE and I
hope that
>>> the affiliates in that group can provide you with good advice.
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>> Pine
>>> (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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