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&depa... 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/%D0%A3%D0%BC%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0... (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&departm...), * 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/%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%... 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/%C2%A0%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB.+79274158066%C2%A0/ skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
04.10.2018, 08:32, "Pine W" wiki.pine@gmail.com:
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,
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