Good day, colleagues!
Our user group aimed to enreach content on North-West Russia have published a new activity report for 2023. Link is here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/North-West_Russia_Wiki-Historians_User_Group... report is available in Russian and English.
In 2023 we faced the same challenges that in were present in 2022: overall pressure of Russian government on Wikimedia movement made some editors abandon their work in Wikimedia projects, or, at least, stop coming to our offline events. Also financial situation of most of our participants became worse, so as long as we can’t rely on some kind of outside financing we also can’t afford long expeditions by ourselves anymore. Anyway, I’m glad we’ve made this far and I hope that situation in Russia will eventually get better in 2024. -- Nikolai Bulykin (User:Красный)
Hello Kolya,
Thank you for sharing your UG's report with us. I know how difficult it is to continue any Wikimedia activity in the current Russian political situation, and I think you are brave to do it.
It was also great to meet a few of your group members in Tbilisi.
Keep up the good work
VIctoria
On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 10:28 AM Коля Красный via Wikimedia-l < wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
Good day, colleagues!
Our user group aimed to enreach content on North-West Russia have published a new activity report for 2023. Link is here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/North-West_Russia_Wiki-Historians_User_Group... https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/North-West_Russia_Wiki-Historians_User_Group/Annual_reports/2023/en report is available in Russian and English.
In 2023 we faced the same challenges that in were present in 2022: overall pressure of Russian government on Wikimedia movement made some editors abandon their work in Wikimedia projects, or, at least, stop coming to our offline events. Also financial situation of most of our participants became worse, so as long as we can’t rely on some kind of outside financing we also can’t afford long expeditions by ourselves anymore. Anyway, I’m glad we’ve made this far and I hope that situation in Russia will eventually get better in 2024.
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