Dear Farhad,
Thank you very much for your quick reply.
As it is going into the wikimedia-ru list, I'll just give a quick summary.
We at Wikimedia Portugal have two situations in hands, one very urgent, and
another more easy.
The first is related with those two events that we were unable to get the
funding to:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/DarwIn/Fall_2018#Parti…
Includes those two events we are organizing /co-organizing, bound to happen
between 23-27 this month:
-
https://moita2018.softwarelivre.eu/ - FOSS event / First Ubuntu
Congress in Portugal
-
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:GLAM/Biblioteca_Nacional_de_Po…
BNP GLAM days - Wikidata capacity building / GLAM awareness event
For those we've just started a crowdfunding campaign here:
https://pt.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campanha_2018/en
This is not directly related to Russian culture, though we have some hope
of get funding from the Russian Federation Embassy in Portugal to go
forward with them. We are kind of desperate trying to fund them, and the
embassies, such as the Russian, seem a viable option, specially with all
the approach that has happened between both countries (and especially
between Madeira, where I live, and Russia) in the last few years.
The Portugal/Russian cultural project is a long term one, and initially may
probably involve the first Russian school which just opened here in Madeira
Island. It will certainly involve the Wikimedia Asian Month too. We also
have a significant number of Russian expatriates, and a considerable amount
of tourism from Russia (with a constant presence here since the times of
the czars), and Russia cultural weeks are regularly held here. The exact
way this project will go is something we'll have to work out with the
Embassy, to see what could be the best way to go forward.
It's fantastic to know there is interest on your part to be part of this
project, and it is very interesting to know that you have letters of
recognition and support from the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Do
you think you can help us passing our message of cultural cooperation along
the Russian Federation Embassy in Lisbon?
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Paulo
Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin <frhd(a)yandex.com> escreveu no dia
segunda, 12/11/2018 à(s) 11:49:
Dear Paulo,
Below are just a few thoughts off the top of my head. Copying this also
into [wikimedia-ru] list, as you need help urgently and I am quite busy
till Wednesday evening.
On top of the Wikimedia Asia month, please look at our ongoing
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Конкурсы/Узнай_мир._Начни_с_побратимов/en
contest open for anybody & upcoming
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Конкурсы/Узнай_Россию_и_Германию:_познакомься…
We can easily come up with something similar between Russia & Portugal. My
Moscow colleagues have various letters of recognition and support of
their activities from various Public and State bodies of the Russian
Federation, including the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Wikimedia Russia previously organized plenty of various contests with
local sponsors, some of which can be seen at
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Конкурсы/en (Russian version is more
up-to-date)
I hope this gives some initial food for thought. My English-speaking
colleagues might email you directly with more.
Regards,
farhad
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20:49, November 11, 2018, Paulo Santos Perneta <paulosperneta(a)gmail.com>om>:
Hello Farkhad,
First of all, congratulations for your well deserved selection as
Wikimedian of the year for 2018.
I've been directed to you by someone ("John D.") who saw my post about the
WMPT project on Russian culture at the wikimedia-l. To make a long story
short: The WMF abruptly extended an (already unjustified) suspension of the
Portuguese chapter for more three months, and ruined all the funding for
the events scheduled for that period of time, including two key
national-scope GLAM and FOSS events scheduled to happen later this month
[0], so we are desperately trying to find other sources of funding to try
to save those events.
When I found out that next 13 November the Russian Federation Embassy will
going to open a special 1 day consulate service here in Funchal (where I
live) [1], and recalling a small pilot project we have done with the
Russian Wikipedia at our last Art+Feminism event, our organization of the
ongoing Wikipedia Asian Month contest - and considering a large part of
Russia is in Asia, the old relation of friendship between Portugal and
Russia, with a special influence in the Island where I live (Madeira
Island), which has a significant amount of tourists, expatriates and a
number of cultural relations with Russia[2], and specially the very recent
opening of the first Russian School in Funchal [3] (and the curious fact
that the fact that the founder of WMPT is Russian by birth himself!) it
seemed a great opportunity to start a project about Russian culture here,
and on the way try to save those events, and get the funding for more
Wikimedia activities, without being so dependent on the WMF for everything
- which, as we are feeling on our skins, has tragic consequences.
So I 've contacted the embassy, and I expect to meet the consulate here
next 13 November (or someone will meet the ambassador in Lisbon next week,
I'll have an answer next Monday), to see what is their openness for this
project, also hoping we'll get some funding to carry on the events of 23-27
with the support of the Embassy or any other entity. We are really trying
everything to save those key events, not only because of their importance
on the promotion of Free Knowledge in Portugal, but because cancelling them
at this point will cause significant damage for the Wikimedia movement here
in Portugal.
I'm writing to you mainly for two reasons - to invite you to participate
in the long term project about Russian culture, and to ask you if you have
any idea that would help us saving these events in the short term, even
with a fraction of that (already little) funding. I apologize for the
urgence of the call, but this all been very sudden. Nobody expected an
extension of that WMF suspension on us, and even less that it would carry
with it the suspension of individual grants, so we were caught totally
unprepared.
[0] -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/DarwIn/Fall_2018#Parti…
[1] -
https://funchalnoticias.net/2018/11/05/cmf-informa-a-pedido-da-embaixada-ru…
[2] -
http://www.dnoticias.pt/hemeroteca/407101-albuquerque-desafia-russia-a-ter-…
[3] -
https://funchalnoticias.net/2018/10/23/escola-russa-devera-ajudar-a-reforca…
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Paulo (DarwIn)
Wikimedia Portugal