Just to summarize, the Tartar government wants to sponsor a WiR position to improve pages
related to the Tartar country and government and also do outreach (if I understand
correctly). That sounds like a good thing to do in general, although other editors may see
it as a conflict of interest, particularly if you cover actions of the government. Just
looking at the worklist, it looks like it focuses on locations and businesses. You
probably know better than I do if controversies will arise. Good luck!
-Rachel Helps
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Subject: [Wren] WiR via a state procurement contract?
Dear Richard and WREN colleagues,
I have good news to share and a request for comment - one of my counterparts in Tatarstan
receiving regional department of finance approval for funding Wikipedia related services
via tendering state procurement contract in line with Russian regulations.
Details below, grateful for any advice.
regards,
farhad
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Farhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин
http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 / skype:frhdkazan /
Wikipedia:frhdkazan / Wikidata:Q34036417
We will start with them by making sure that
https://w.wiki/SBF<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fw.wiki%2…
list entries (plus a few more Wikidata entities to be created) are equally well developed
and sourced in Tatar, Russian and English, after which the intent is to venture into other
domains (images, data, etc.) and 8 more languages of initial interest to them.
I'm now thinking on how to structure all this in a way that our first engagement with
the regional government entity is seen as a mutual success, as this is an important step
to get backing of Tatarstan President necessary to have local GLAMs and Education entities
more willing to consider cooperation with Wikimedia.
In parallel, we are discussing a WiR position for training their staff, organizing events
for their local and foreign partners, and moving their investments portal to CC-BY.
I seem to be the only experienced local Wikimedian to be both active internationally and
proficient in regional language (Tatar), so I am still undecided if I should concentrate
on getting local partners happy or, instead of doing the raw writing and sourcing work
they are ready to pay for, I better concentrate on making sure global Wikimedia community
is comfortable with this activity. I understand that myself and other Wikimedia Russia
members serving as eyes to assure material meets Wikipedia and wider Wikimedia principles
and policies would be good, with international oversight from outside of Russia likely
being an important component as well.
On top of this, I am also talking to Tourism, Youth Affairs and Culture departments, as
well as Office of the President for their Tatar language related initiatives, was recently
invited to join an Advisory Committee on Preservation and Development of Tatar language.