Thank you for the update Farhad, your work is simply fantastic.
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Il giorno mar 14 lug 2020 alle ore 22:07 Фархад Фаткуллин / Farhad
Fatkullin <frhd(a)yandex.com> ha scritto:
Dear colleagues,
This is to let you know that:
1. on July 6th I was named into the Advisory Commission to the Republic of
Tatarstan President on the Matters of Preservation and Strengthening Tatar
language vitality (Presidential decree in both Russian
https://president.tatarstan.ru/legis/?law_id=303501 and Tatar
https://president.tatarstan.ru/legis/?law_id=303521, state languages of
the Republic) - a voluntary body consisting of regional executive and
legislative government members, various recognized academicians, writers
and community members, shown as Wikimedia Russia member.
2. ahead of the first in-person meeting (tomorrow, July 15th, on the
premises of the Republic's Parliament), I prepared and shared in Russian
https://w.wiki/Wn8 the following: (full text available in English below,
copied to Commission secretary).
* (I) my personal current understanding of the appropriate survival niches
for non-dominant languages in the digital era &
* (II) Wikimedia community best practices that can be applied by our
worldwide stakeholders for strengthening their language position if their
context is somewhat similar.
regards,
farhad
P.S. I do hope that respective undertaking might also be of benefit to
other Russia and internationally based non-dominant language communities,
as majority of Tatar's speakers reside outside of the Republic, where the
language enjoys some public support.
P.P.S. Coincidentally, all this happened in the process of preparation
towards Celtic Knot 2020 Online-only Wikimedia Language Conference
https://w.wiki/HVv - our Russian Wikinews report was published today
https://ru.wikinews.org/?curid=4658720
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I. Content niche analysis for non-dominant languages of the planet.
Country, cultural or language borders don't matter much in digital era.
Irrespective of where one lives, a language which is neither national,
regional auxiliary or international working language can only be preserve
own importance for humans as a channel for consuming various digital
content on personal hobbies:
* fishing and gardening, knitting and popular science, cartoons, football
or haut couture fashion ...
* entertainment by various social, political and glamour activists and
clowns from around the world
* choosing where to go for vacation or what to do on the weekend with
friends or guests wherever you live (Moscow, New York, etc.)
Conscious public use of some non-dominant language to demonstrate
belonging to some ethnocultural entity is only likely when the speaker is
proud of one's specific identity (i.e. it is prestigious somewhere, is a
basis for some positive discrimination).
II. Wikimedia community best practices and possible measures to strengthen
Tatar (and other non-dominant language position) within the niche described
in I.
Generating useful and exciting contemporary content in some specific
language is key for preservation of its use in digital domains. But the
possibility of reusing it easily and widely (without the obstacles of
archaic copyright system) might be even more important, thus possible steps
would be:
1. to extend CC-BY use to all Tatar content generated or published using
Tatarstan's regional budget — tatarstan.ru adopted this in September 2018
(official news reprinting part of Russian Wikinews article at
https://digital.tatarstan.ru/index.htm/news/1273420.htm )
2. to study possibilities of retrospective release of whatever is still
"copyright locked" (all content in museums, books, magazines, schools,
encyclopedias etc.) — 2018 case with Russia's first paper encyclopedia
https://w.wiki/Wma , 2011 case with Kazakh Encyclopedia
https://w.wiki/Wmp
3. to apply international experience of running contests and initiating
projects around Wikimedia content creation or improvement (as part of
Wikimedia Education, collaboration with various cultural institutions) —
Basque and Welsh community experiences for secondary education
https://w.wiki/Wmb would be particularly applicable (latter currently in
English only, will dubb it into Russian soon), see first steps in Tatarstan
at
https://w.wiki/WDz
4. to use Wikidata offered opportunities to assure Tatarstan's e-gov
services availability in all supported languages of the planet, and then
help promoting such an approach to make all countries' and their regional
e-gov services available in Tatar as well — no such examples just yet, but
this knowledge base is in public domain (СС0 legal license), thus it can be
not only edited, but also downloaded and then used autonomously in full or
in part (keeping in mind for e-system security needs).
Note: Wikidata and Wikipedia support various alphabets. A number of
Wikipedia language sections, including Kazakh, offer a choice of Arabic,
Cyrillic or Latin script for content presentation (automatic
transliteration).
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