Re: [WM-RU] Invitation to Select Biler Forum 4-9 July 2019

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/Russi… 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 -- Farhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 / skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan / Wikidata:Q34036417 13.07.2019, 01:35, "Nadee Gunasena" <ngunasena(a)wikimedia.org>rg>: 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. 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. 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. bring more attention to your work. Thank you Farhad. frhd(a)yandex.com> wrote: that can inspire high-school aged youth of Tatarstan and other regions of Russia, during the upcoming IT BILER FORUM 2019. day: lively informal discussion event taking place on July 18 some time around 1:30-2:30 pm (Moscow time zone). leadership representatives asked me to moderate it. 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. 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. 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. 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. will be on the grounds, so we might be interrupted at some point if/when he comes into our tent. as a time to publicly award the winners of CEE Spring 2019 @ ttWP. 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. skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan / Wikidata:Q34036417 slien(a)wikimedia.org>gt;, Vladimir Medeyko <medeyko(a)gmail.com> Could we try with a Google hangouts link? I'll work on some slides and send them for review early next week. translation of the talk? ngunasena(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: Please let us know any other questions you have for Timikhan and the team. t.shaikhutdin(a)gmail.com> wrote: desktop. WikiSchool project and to develop wiki-movement in their schools. ngunasena(a)wikimedia.org>gt;: 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. Hangouts, or is there another way you prefer? remarks, and I wanted to check and see if this would be possible? 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? 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. ngunasena(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: 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. medeyko(a)gmail.com> wrote: approximately at 2 pm (UTC +3). Wikimedia movement now and about Wikimedia Education activities. We are planning that President of the Republic of Tatarstan will hear that message too. wiki-projects. message: he is among organizers in Kazan and may comment some details quicker. slien(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: colleague, Nichole from our education team, for her information. can match the right person and remarks. A couple specific questions we had: taking place both 4-9 July and 16-21 of July? hearing from a Wikimedia Foundation representative? Wikipedia and education work more broadly, as well as with the Wikimedia Foundation? оешмасы Советы рәисе, Сәләт ВикиМәктәбе җитәкчесе детских организаций Республики Татарстан", руководитель ВикиШколы Сэлэт Republic of Tatarstan, Head of Selet WikiSchool оешмасы Советы рәисе, Сәләт ВикиМәктәбе җитәкчесе детских организаций Республики Татарстан", руководитель ВикиШколы Сэлэт of Tatarstan, Head of Selet WikiSchool