Hi all,

Thanks so much for the continued guidance and all of the detail around the upcoming event. Farhad, thanks so much for your comments - we're happy to support in any way that we can.

You had asked about how we can do some social media amplification. I think the best thing to do would be if you, Timerkhan or anyone else can take some pictures during the event - especially of the youth participating in editing or learning more about Wiki projects. We can share those photos on Twitter to amplify the work and the conference. As to the blog - if this is of interest, I can work with you and others on the team to put together a blog post with a summary of the event and some highlights. This can be short, and just highlight some of the most interesting sessions or any feedback you all heard during the event - anything that speaks to the success of the event. Perhaps a good thing to do would be to circle back on this next week, after the event is over? We can see if it's doable to write a short blog that week or the week after about the event.

Let me know how that sounds. Thanks!
Nadee
ᐧ

On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 6:10 AM Nichole Saad <nsaad@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi Farhad,

Thanks for following up. I'm going to keep the slides very minimal, so there shouldn't be too much to translate. Aside from this talk, it would be great to talk with you more about the upcoming secondary school program. Can we jump on a call (maybe with others from the Education Team as well) in the coming weeks?

Since the talk is only about 10 min, I'll keep it pretty brief. I will focus on what makes it engaging and special for students, and connect them to the larger movement, and then open it for questions. Since there will be other talks and events before this one, I assume I don't need to go into what the Wikimedia movement is, and can focus more specifically about the work of students?

thank you!

Nichole

On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 11:19 AM Фархад Фаткуллин / Farhad Fatkullin <frhd@yandex.com> wrote:
Dear Nadee and all,

I will copy this to Wikimedia Russia to make it public.

1) No hard feelings about neither Katherine, nor Jimmy being able to be physically in Tatarstan this time:
* I knew chances where slim even when sending my May 9-10 heads up to wikimedia-ru, then https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2019-May/092390.html & then to WMF people I knew.
* It took some time to formalize preexisting relationship between Selet & Wikimedia Russia, before we could send a proper invite from WMRU on June 6
* I don't know if WMRU or WMF communicated the same to Jimmy in time for him to even consider it (I certainly didn't know the proper channel to reach out to him).
* There might be lots of other yet invisible obstacles. My excuse is that our youth came up with the idea, we all did our best to support them this time and will do better next time around. The rest is in Almighty's hands.
* We are grateful to WMF for having Nichole & Amir helping us @ IT BILER FORUM https://w.wiki/5wX
* It would be awesome if you can help Katherine or Jimmy record a 2-3 minute long greeting message for IT BILER FORUM participating youth, mentioning Wikimedia Russia, Selet, Tatar Wikimedians and Selet WikiSchool

2) I am confident that Selet Youth Movement (Wikimedia Russia's partner in Selet WikiSchool project) will be happy to see WMF Twitter / Blog showcasing Selet's support to Wikimedia session organized by Selet WikiSchool youth for themselves & peers during Selet's Annual IT FORUM. I will need some guidance on how to proceed on this front & would be happy to engage after July 21 (the deadline for Wikimania 2019 Posters). Timerkhan will be our lead for respective poster & the lightning talk @ Wikimania. As for me, I'm old school - my Twitter is called email ;)


For Nichole to keep in mind when preparing / speaking:

3) Selet is interested in introducing Wiki-components into year-round Selet clubs in various cities and towns of Tatarstan. First declaration of intent was made in December 2018 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/December_2018/Contents/Russia_report  but the format is still undecided. Selet WikiSchool YouTube-broadcasts are run from their downtown Kazan location, most participants watching them in recording whenever convenient.

4) Selet.biz is under CC-BY license for a while now, but very few Internet users in this part of the world do know what it means - even despite the fact that they are widely used by Russia's President, Federal & Regional governments, Ministries, etc. https://w.wiki/677

5) This coming Tuesday, July 16, myself and User:Marat-avgust (Tatar Wikipedia admin, many times Wikimedia Russia' Wiki-Award recipient for content contribution into ttWP) are invited to the meeting with Regional Government and Department of Education representatives to consult them on steps and strategies to introduce Wiki-component into secondary school program (regional component related to Tatar language). We will be citing successful experience with Selet WikiSchool, two other local partners, and on-going discussions with local universities. Some of their representatives will later attend Selet's IT BILER FORUM at the time when Nichole will be connecting.

6) Wikimedia Russia is developing its network of partners in Tatarstan (various NGOs, Universities, regional & local State bodies, making some in-roads into GLAMs), so idea of having a separate multilingual & multicultural WUG TATARSTAN is maturing. Selet WikiSchool youth, which is currently developing and showcasing their project through Wikimedia Russia & the growing Tatar-language specific WUG TAT, have expressed interest in joining projects of the regionally-centered entity as well (Tatar is an important component of Selet's activities, but many don't know it well enough to write in it). Selet leadership expressed interest in possible cooperation in the framework of a weekly Russian-English-Tatar-English Poli-lingual Wikiclub open to the public - the idea itself was born in the Fall of 2018, we are in the process of formalizing the concept, the format and finding the appropriate location partner to host it (one of the possible candidates is Tatarstan National Library https://ru.wikinews.org/?curid=228908 , though our youth is also offering other publicly accessible locations with availability of PCs and we are exploring more options).

regards,
farhad

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Farhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 / skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan / Wikidata:Q34036417



13.07.2019, 01:35, "Nadee Gunasena" <ngunasena@wikimedia.org>:
> Hi Farhad,
>
> Thank you for the email and the detailed logistics about next week's talk. I will let Nichole comment on any specifics around her presentation and topics. I did want to address the comment about only today becoming aware that Katherine could not attend.
>
> I'm part of the Communications team supporting Katherine. When we first received the invitations to this event, both from yourself and from Vladimir, we tried to see if there was a way to fit this into her calendar but unfortunately July is quite a busy month with some other travel already scheduled, and we weren't able to make it work. It's my mistake that I didn't copy you in on my emails to Vladimir in mid and late June where I shared that this schedule would not work for Katherine, but that we were exploring other speakers in Wikimedia Education. I apologize that you only found out about this now, less than one week from the event.
>
> Another thing I had shared in those emails that I wanted to bring up again is how we can support and make sure to get visibility for this event and the work happening with youth in this region. Our team would be happy to work with you to help amplify this on Twitter, and also perhaps to write a blog about this event during or after the conference. We want to show our support for this event and the education efforts of Wikimedia Russia.
>
> Let me know if this is of interest and how we can work together to bring more attention to your work. Thank you Farhad.
>
> Best,
> Nadee Gunasena
>
> ᐧ
>
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 3:14 PM Фархад Фаткуллин / Farhad Fatkullin <frhd@yandex.com> wrote:
>> Dear Nichole,
>>
>> Thank you for agreeing to present cool Wikimedia Education projects that can inspire high-school aged youth of Tatarstan and other regions of Russia, during the upcoming IT BILER FORUM 2019.
>>
>> Some comments after discussions with Selet representatives during the day:
>>
>> 1. As of today, the video link with you is being planned during a lively informal discussion event taking place on July 18 some time around 1:30-2:30 pm (Moscow time zone).
>>
>> 2. Both Timerkhan (Selet WikiSchool project team leader) and Selet leadership representatives asked me to moderate it.
>>
>> 3. This will be a third Wiki-related event of that day (after 2 one-hour-long presentation and hands on type master-classes in the morning) & an after lunch session must be especially engaging or we will lose the audience quite quickly.
>>
>> 4. In my moderator function, I intend to convince Suzanna, Stas, possibly Anna of St.Petersburg or Alina of Khmelnitsky to serve as a warm-up & engagement team to move into a Q&A with the audience (with whom they would by then have met for at least 2 days) before we have Nichole's presentation.
>>
>> 5 I understand you don't plan to give that presentation in Russian, most of the audience will not have a working command of English, whilst we do not have a budget for hiring conference interpretation equipment, nor a chance to use consecutive (youth & general group attention dynamics)  - so Timerkhan requested my help with a live voice-over interpretation. In this scenario, people will at best hear your voice in the background, except for the opening part and at the end when I let you say goodbyes uninterpreted.
>>
>> 6. Your slides might need to be translated into Russian, so please send them in for me to take a look. We might want to drive message home as opposed to just let someone feel they are cool because they can read English.
>>
>> 7. This will be more or less the time when the regional President will be on the grounds, so we might be interrupted at some point if/when he comes into our tent.
>>
>> 8. I heard Timerkhan and the team are discussing using this session as a time to publicly award the winners of CEE Spring 2019 @ ttWP.
>>
>> regards,
>> farhad
>>
>> P.S. It's only today that myself, then Selet leadership & now other members of Wikimedia Russia have learned that Katherine is not only not coming, but is neither connecting, nor sending a welcoming video address. It's an unpleasant surprize, but a good confirmation of the fact that Selet WikiSchool team is allowed to steer wherever with full trust, support & without much adult oversight. If possible, though, please copy me on the topic to avoid such surprises - periodic smartphone messages from the youth don't give a clear picture of what's going on, whilst Selet leadership counts on my keeping an eye after the success of the undertaking, as a Selet Alum myself, the Founder & the Member of the Board of Trustees for their WikiSchool project, and now also the member of their partner organization - Wikimedia Russia.
>> --
>> Farhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 / skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan / Wikidata:Q34036417
>>
>> 12.07.2019, 19:15, "Тимерхан Шайхутдинов" <t.shaikhutdin@gmail.com>:
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>>> От: Nichole Saad <nsaad@wikimedia.org>
>>> Date: пт, 12 июл. 2019 г. в 17:04
>>> Subject: Re: Invitation to Select Biler Forum 4-9 July 2019
>>> To: Nadee Gunasena <ngunasena@wikimedia.org>
>>> Cc: Тимерхан Шайхутдинов <t.shaikhutdin@gmail.com>, Samantha Lien <slien@wikimedia.org>, Vladimir Medeyko <medeyko@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Hi Nadee and Timerkhan,
>>>
>>> I don't use Skype because it crashes my computer (it's very buggy). Could we try with a Google hangouts link? I'll work on some slides and send them for review early next week.
>>>
>>> Timerkhan, will you want to translate the slides? Will there be translation of the talk?
>>>
>>> thank you!
>>>
>>> Nichole
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 6:33 PM Nadee Gunasena <ngunasena@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>> This is extremely helpful Timikhan, thank you!
>>>>
>>>> Nichole, does this work for you to join and present via Skype? Please let us know any other questions you have for Timikhan and the team.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you!
>>>> Nadee
>>>> ᐧ
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 12:09 AM Тимерхан Шайхутдинов <t.shaikhutdin@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. We offer to use Skype.
>>>>> 2. It is possible. She can use function of demonstration of desktop.
>>>>> 3. The audience is teenagers 14-17 y.
>>>>> 4. It would be good if also she called them to join Selet WikiSchool project and to develop wiki-movement in their schools.
>>>>>
>>>>> чт, 11 июля 2019 г. в 3:38, Nadee Gunasena <ngunasena@wikimedia.org>:
>>>>>> Hi Vladimir and Timikhan,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm excited to share that someone from the Wikimedia Education team can join over video at the time you mentioned above. Nichole Saad, cc'd here, is a Senior Program Manager in Education who would be happy to join over video for the session.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I do have a couple of follow-up questions for you both:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> * How should Nichole plan to join this session - over Google Hangouts, or is there another way you prefer?
>>>>>> * Nichole would like to share a couple of slides during her remarks, and I wanted to check and see if this would be possible?
>>>>>> * Can you share more about the age group of the youth in the audience? We want to make sure that we speak at their level, so it would be great to understand if they are in teenagers or younger?
>>>>>> * Nichole would like to include a Call to Action at the end of her remarks, and wanted to get your recommendations. Is there something that we want the audience to do - a local wiki-club that we'd like them to join, or anything specific we want the youth to do at the conference, etc? Any recommendations here would be great.
>>>>>> Let us know any detail you can share. Thank you both!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Nadee
>>>>>> ᐧ
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 11:54 AM Nadee Gunasena <ngunasena@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Vladimir,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is Nadee from the Communications team. Thank you so much for the response and the detail. This is extremely helpful. Let me chat with the team here and we'll get back to you soon to propose a spokesperson and confirm that we can join at the time you mentioned above. If there are any other key points or topics that you would like us to cover during this time, please let us know.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thank you!
>>>>>>> Nadee
>>>>>>> ᐧ
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 7:27 AM Vladimir Medeyko <medeyko@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Dear Samantha,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> please find the details you asked for:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 1. This would be for events of 16-21 July: on 18th July approximately at 2 pm (UTC +3).
>>>>>>>> 2. Words of welcome, some information about that what is Wikimedia movement now and about Wikimedia Education activities. We are planning that President of the Republic of Tatarstan will hear that message too.
>>>>>>>> 3. 9-10 minutes.
>>>>>>>> 4. The audience are youths who just start learning wiki-projects.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I also added Timikhan Shaikhutdinov to addresses of this message: he is among organizers in Kazan and may comment some details quicker.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 9:49 PM Samantha Lien <slien@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Thanks for the update, Vladimir! I'm also looping in my colleague, Nichole from our education team, for her information.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> We'd love to learn a bit more about this year's event so we can match the right person and remarks. A couple specific questions we had:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> - So I'm understanding correctly, would this be for the events taking place both 4-9 July and 16-21 of July?
>>>>>>>>> - What do you think this audience would be most interested in hearing from a Wikimedia Foundation representative?
>>>>>>>>> - About how long would you like them to speak for?
>>>>>>>>> - About how familiar would you say this audience is with Wikipedia and education work more broadly, as well as with the Wikimedia Foundation?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks very much, Vladimir!
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Sam
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Samantha Lien
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Communications Manager
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> С уважением, Владимир.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>   Медейко Владимир Владимирович
>>>>>>>>   тел. +7-921-940-39-79
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Nadee Gunasena
>>>>>>> Executive Communications Manager
>>>>>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nadee Gunasena
>>>>>> Executive Communications Manager
>>>>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>>>> --
>>>>> Ихтирам белән / С уважением / Best regards
>>>>>
>>>>> Тимерхан Шәйхетдинов
>>>>> "Татарстан Республикасы Балалар оешмалары советы" төбәк иҗтимагый оешмасы Советы рәисе, Сәләт ВикиМәктәбе җитәкчесе
>>>>>
>>>>> Тимерхан Шайхутдинов
>>>>> Председатель Совета региональной общественной организации "Совет детских организаций Республики Татарстан", руководитель ВикиШколы Сэлэт
>>>>>
>>>>> Timerkhan Shaikhutdinov
>>>>> Chairman of the Council of Children's organizations of the Republic of Tatarstan, Head of Selet WikiSchool
>>>>>
>>>>> WhatsApp, Telegram: +7(953)493-70-66
>>>>> Email: t.shaikhutdin@gmail.com
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Nadee Gunasena
>>>> Executive Communications Manager
>>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>>
>>> --
>>> Nichole Saad
>>> Wikimedia Foundation | Senior Program Manager, Education
>>> nsaad@wikimedia.org
>>> user: NSaad (WMF)
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ихтирам белән / С уважением / Best regards
>>>
>>> Тимерхан Шәйхетдинов
>>> "Татарстан Республикасы Балалар оешмалары советы" төбәк иҗтимагый оешмасы Советы рәисе, Сәләт ВикиМәктәбе җитәкчесе
>>>
>>> Тимерхан Шайхутдинов
>>> Председатель Совета региональной общественной организации "Совет детских организаций Республики Татарстан", руководитель ВикиШколы Сэлэт
>>>
>>> Timerkhan Shaikhutdinov
>>> Chairman of the Council of Children's organizations of the Republic of Tatarstan, Head of Selet WikiSchool
>>>
>>> WhatsApp, Telegram: +7(953)493-70-66
>>> Email: t.shaikhutdin@gmail.com
>
> --
>
> Nadee Gunasena
> Executive Communications Manager
> Wikimedia Foundation


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Nichole Saad
Wikimedia Foundation | Senior Program Manager, Education
user: NSaad (WMF)



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Nadee Gunasena 
Executive Communications Manager
Wikimedia Foundation