Dear colleagues,
On Monday, our high school Senior User:Тимерхан & myself met with the First President
of Tatarstan, State Councillor of the Republic of Tatarstan, UNESCO Special Envoy on
Intercultural Dialogue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mintimer_Shaimiev where I received
an unexpected offer to think about launching a Wiki-program on a publicly funded Tatar
language satellite TV channel, and a request to prepare for a meeting with a group of
regional ministers (tentatively end of October) and whomever I would like to invite if I
can figure out how they can be of help in speeding up penetration of Wikimedia projects
& respective skills into the mindustry of peopl having something with respective
fields.
This was the outcome of a two hour long conversation with the 81 y.o. elder statesman was
around Tatar Wikipedia, growing Wikimedia movement in the region, using it as a channel to
promote knowledge about cultural heritage, lifelong open learning and other issues related
to my upcoming presentation at CEE Meeting 2018 in Lviv
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2018/Programme/Submis…
and lightning talks there.
The invitation came on the Friday afternoon, so I was a little tense over the weekend but
we managed OK
Today Russian Wikinews published our report on 1st of October meeting with Mintimer
Shaimiev
https://ru.wikinews.org/wiki/Минтимер_Шаймиев_встретился_с_татароязычными_в…
See all pictures from the meeting among my uploads via
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListFiles/Frhdkazan
The working title of "Preparing the population of Tatarstan and the Tatar speaking
world for living in the Industry 4.0 Global Economy: What Wikimedia projects have to
offer".
I have not yet have the time to identify which ministries, departments and other
organizations (Tatmedia, National Museum, National Library, Regional TV & Radio
company, etc.) are worth to be invited, so here I would very much welcome your
recommendation — it's a balancing act as we are limited on the volunteer time to
adequately support each of these players, but we certainly don't want to miss those
capable of demonstrating interesting results relatively quickly.
Tatarstan Deputy Prime-Minister - Minister for ICT Roman Shaykhutdinov has today inquired
about possibility of engaging myself to deliver lectures on Advanced Uses of Wiki (I guess
it's best to engage volunteers with extensive experience of presenting at various
Wiki-conferences, Russian-speaking ones first of all). As for the open to the public
introductory level wiki-seminar about Wiki and related practical Use Cases from various
countries about using it in Education, GLAM, Wikidata applications, etc. - with speakers
connecting over the video-conference & simultaneous interpretation support - it's
offered to be organized locally in an IT-Park in a downtown Kazan during the last week of
November (I guess WMF staff would be best able to help me with identifying most
appropriate Use Cases and international volunteers that were responsible for their
implementation, plus we'd have to figure out the schedule for their connection &
possible overall routing - we might have plenty of folks around the world to benefit from
this video-conference, as well as professional Russian-speaking simultaneous
interpretation of the presentations). Plus Roman invited local Tatar Wikimedians to
include two Russian-speaking schools into the pilot run.
I would go about translating the above Wikinews into Tatar & English (as well as the
report on 2018 Wikimedia Conference Russia
https://ru.wikinews.org/?curid=185095 sometime
next week — as I have to finish my presentation plan and slides for 2018 CEE Meeting
shortly.
Regards,
farhad
--
Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин
http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 / skype:frhdkazan /
Wikipedia:frhdkazan
04.09.2018, 07:16, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin"
<frhd(a)yandex.com>om>:
>
http://mic.tatarstan.ru/rus/index.htm/news/1273420.htm
>
> It's probably the first time regional government website in the Russian
Federation quoted Russian Wikinews article
https://ru.wikinews.org/wiki/Главные_сайты_Татарстана_перешли_на_свободную_… ― only
the part about Republic of Tatarstan government portal
http://www.tatarstan.ru/ and its
subdomains now being available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International is
mentioned, the part about local seminar initiative to be dedicated to Education, GLAM etc.
was left out, but their press-service made the day of Russian Wikinews community by also
being attentive to proper attribution.
>
> regards,
> farhad
>
> --
> Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин
http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 /
skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
>> 29.08.2018, 20:56, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin"
<frhd(a)yandex.com>om>:
>>> Dear colleagues,
>>>
>>> Since yesterday all subdomains hosted @
http://tatarstan.ru/ (including
websites of the
http://president.tatarstan.ru/, the Cabinet
http://prav.tatarstan.ru/,
ministries/departments, state-owned organizations, municipalities and Representative
offices of the Republic around Russia and abroad) moved to Creative Commons Attribution.
The only exceptions are those of the First (ex-) President & the Parliament, that
already had their own unique type free licenses (in Russian, non-standard).
>>>
>>> Russian Wikinews requested me to draft an article & my counterparty at
the Regional Ministry of InfoComm has gladly approved. I will probably need to find time
for that today. That was the easy part. Some context: Russian President, Executive Branch
of the Federal Government, both Chambers of the Federal Parliament, etc. are using
Creative Commons Attribution for a while now, thanks to Senior Volunteers efforts of
Wikimedia Russia members. I just communicated the benefits of this to the Regional
(Republic of Tatarstan) Deputy Prime-Minister
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Shaykhutdinov, head of the regional infocomm
department & he championed it far and wide within his area of responsibility.
>>>
>>> I started engaging high-school & university students into helping the
Infocomm ministry people to learn what is Wikimedia like & how it works - Deputy
Prime-Minister is interested in anything that can benefit Education, Heritage Outreach,
etc. development in the region & help in making culture of the Republic better known
globally & promote Tatar language use online (Wikidata, GLAM, etc.). Another minister
I met is excited with examples of Greek school children
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/July_2017/A_class_of_26_…
& youth in Italy
http://www.rivistabricks.it/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/BRICKS_4_2017.pdf & other
places develop critical thinking and develop immunity to mass & social media stories
painting the world black & white as they please (stories from any outlets, including
the BBC or New York Times, have to be taken with a pinch of salt - there's no unbiased
human). In parallel, we are starting a cooperation with private Cambridge International
school in Kazan
http://school.balacity.ru/ (the founders & the director know me,
invited me for cooperation, key contact person was part of the meeting, I provided
necessary initial links). I know that our youth is now inspired to organize a User Group,
report on their Spring & Summer efforts at Wikimedia Conference Russia this September
& take their existing Selet WikiSchool project even higher.
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/May_2018/Selet_WikiSchool , more
stories coming.
>>>
>>> Last night WMF Partnerships agreed to support me in organizing a
videoconference type seminar with best practices in Education/GLAM/Heritage
promotion/Wikidata/etc. to explain locals about how great is the Wikimedia movement
(something mainly unheard of in Russia, even though Wikipedia is actually used). I would
love to have you, my dear international colleagues, to find time to connect and give a
video talk on some Use Case implementation during the upcoming public seminar, organized
in conjunction with Tatarstan InfoComm ministry (whenever we get the dates they will be
able to gather local crowd in the IT-Park in downtown Kazan). I will take care of the
simultaneous interpretation — all the necessary equipment is there, so I'll try to
find the funding & qualified people.
>>>
>>> In parallel I'll continue working on organizing a short in-person
version at WMF Headquarters for the President of the Republic, if and when we can fit it
into his schedule (Tatarstan Deputy Prime-Minister - Regional Minister for InfoComm wanted
this to take place during one of the annual regional government delegation visits to
California). President Minnikhanov is a co-chair of the Association of Innovative Regions
of Russia, as well as Russia-Islamic World Strategic Vision Group, so I think we can use
Jimmy's well-timed pass to score well: spreading Wikimedia movement popularity
throughout Russia and the Islamic world even further, helping in unblocking Turkey in the
process.
>>>
>>> "Imagine the world in which every human is a Wikimedian. That's my
commitment!"
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> farhad
>>>
>>> --
>>> Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин
http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 /
skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
>>>
>>> 09.08.2018, 09:09, "Pine W" <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com>om>:
>>>> Hi Farhad,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your generosity with your time as you respond to the
requests
>>>> and new opportunities.
>>>>
>>>> I like Andy's suggestions. Wikimedia Armenia crossed my mind also
as
>>>> potentially a good organization to contact for ideas, because I have
the
>>>> impression that they have a good (but not excessively close)
relationship
>>>> with their national government, and because they have a very
successful
>>>> Wikipedia Education Program.
>>>>
>>>> Although there seem to be many opportunities for you in the short
term, my
>>>> guess is that you will be unable to take advantage of all of them, and
that
>>>> some that you try will be more successful than others. That is all
okay.
>>>>
>>>> Please avoid burning yourself out. Hopefully you can work at a pace
that is
>>>> reasonable for you and will lead to long-term successes. Also,
hopefully
>>>> you can find people who want to help you, and have the time and the
skills
>>>> to do so. You might try to contact people that you have met on-wiki
who
>>>> could help you as you consider the opportunities and how you would
like to
>>>> move forward. I have the impression that you already know many
Wikimedians
>>>> who work on Russian Wikipedia, so hopefully you can get some help from
them.
>>>>
>>>> If you could share occasional updates about your progress, maybe by
sending
>>>> an email to Wikimedia-l with once per quarter, I think that at least a
few
>>>> people would be interested to read what you share.
>>>>
>>>> Good luck,
>>>>
>>>> Pine
>>>> (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 8:55 PM, Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin
<
>>>> frhd(a)yandex.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear colleagues,
>>>>>
>>>>> This is a request for your input and possible ideas (if any)
regarding my
>>>>> management of the fallout from Jimmy's announcing myself as a
2018
>>>>> Wikimedian of the Year.
>>>>>
>>>>> Emails below are a copy of my ongoing consultations with
Wikimedia
>>>>> Foundation staff and other Wikimedians I personally know, as well
as a
>>>>> report on what's already brewing in my region of Russia after
this
>>>>> unexpected outcome.
>>>>>
>>>>> I would be grateful, if you can advise me on how to properly
steer the
>>>>> enthusiasm of behalf of regional government, mass-media, NGOs,
etc. which
>>>>> have just discovered about the possibility of participation in
Wikimedia
>>>>> movement (think anything from U.S. is not getting much in-depth
coverage in
>>>>> Russian by sources that regional public figures, NGOs, teachers
or general
>>>>> regional journalists read) & are now placing great hopes on
teaching whole
>>>>> of Tatarstan about how to Wiki & also engaging all Tatars
globally (3/4
>>>>> outside of Tatarstan, 1/5 outside of Russia).
>>>>>
>>>>> regards,
>>>>> farhad
>>>>
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