Hey Farhad,
really impressive how you managed to leverage this opportunity. Thank you for putting in all this effort, it's heart warming to see you and your colleagues so busy.
Lodewijk
On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 1:16 PM Фархад Фаткуллин / Farhad Fatkullin < frhd@yandex.com> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
Over the course of last 3 months we have:
- Completed prequalifying & judging Tatar 4.0 contest in partnership with
World Tatar Youth Forum (Youth wing of World Congress of Tatars ethnic NGO) with over 100 participants & 60 school teams writing their first articles in ttWP.[1]
- Publicly launched cooperation with Tatar internet development Fund (NGO)
during 7th Tatar Literary Marathon closing ceremony.[2]
- Presented lead regional library with Qur'ans in Spanish, French &
Romanian on behalf of WUG TAT, Wikimedia RUSSIA & Wikimedia movement (on last Friday of Ramadan).[3]
- Had over 200 people sign-up for Spring 2019 Selet WikiSchool.[4]
- First CEE Spring in ttWP with over 5 active participants.[5]
- Our long time partner Selet Youth Foundation signed a cooperation
agreement with Wikimedia Russia & inviting Russia's and foreign Wikimedians to run a Wiki-session during 2019 IT BILER FORUM of theirs.[6] Katherine Maher and Jimmy Wales were replaced by Nichole Saad & Amir Aharoni.[7]
- We agreed with Kazan State Institute for Culture to start Wiki-education
cooperation around promoting regional cultural heritage on WData, Commons, Wpedias, etc.[8]
- Kazan Federal University's Institute of International Relations
initiated an MOU with Wikimedia Russia to do similar things around activities of Regional Economic Geography & Eurasian Studies (as part of mandatory practical internships program for students), also expressing potential interest to host a public multilingual WikiClub on their premises downtown Kazan.[9]
- Restarted work with Regional Tourism Authority to move their
www.visit-tatarstan.com to CC-BY
- Recent meeting in Tatarstan Presidential Administration resulted in
Regional Department of Education making a request to be provided with a standardized step-by-step guide for elementary and secondary school teachers to use Wiki in all subjects taught in various languages (mainly Tatar, Russian and English, some other foreign languages as well).[10] I was requested to provide first feedback in about a week, so meanwhile decided to inquire about possibility of reactivating Russian Vikidia & opening one in Tatar.[11] (CC-BY-SA Wiki for 8-13 year olds)
- Various other leads with Education and Publishing partners.
Next update will be around Wikimania, so I might change the topic as we will pass the baton to the 2019 Wikimedian of the Year then :) regards, farhad
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:TATAR_4.0_contest [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:7th_Tatar_Literary_Marathon [3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:2019_Library_in_the_Park_in_Kaza... [4] Spring 2019 Selet WikiSchool Wiki-page - https://w.wiki/3ZS (in Tatar, links to 4 Wiki-trips, 5 Master-classes & 3 practical editing sessions over YouTube, some registrations) [5] CEE Spring 2019 in ttWP - https://w.wiki/6AN (in Tatar) [6] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki-program_of_IT_BILER_FORUM [7] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2019-July/005119.html (in English) [8] Roadmap for raising awareness on regional Cultural Heritage - https://w.wiki/6AC (in Russian) - to be followed in partnership with Kazan State Instute of Culture [9] On cooperation with Kazan Federal University Institute of International Relations Chair of Regional Economy and Eurasian Studies (in Russian) https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2019-July/005118.html [10] July & preceding progress report on Wiki-Tatarstan (in Russian) https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2019-July/005124.html [11] Inquiring on reactivating Russian & starting Tatar Vikidia https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2019-July/005129.html (in English)
-- Farhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 / skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan / Wikidata:Q34036417
22.04.2019, 19:22, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farhad Fatkullin" <frhd@yandex.com
: Regional department of education (elementary & secondary education) &
Kazan Federal University today received instructions signed by the President of Tatarstan on integrating Wikimedia Education Program opportunities into the curricula of educational establishments of the Republic. I was asked for some guidance on the topic before tonight, so prepared what I could in Russian https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2019-April/005086.html
We are in the country with a centralized education system culture, so
project owner will be the ministry, with Wikimedians serving as stakeholders, consultants & guides.
On March 1st we fielded 2 speakers for EDU RUSSIA 2019 conference
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/February_2019/Contents/Russia...
On April 11-12 our Bashkir colleagues (WUG BAK) were invited to speak @
their regional teachers' conference (photoes & report in Russian - https://ru.wikinews.org/wiki/?curid=221169 ) & their regional deputy minister recalled our speakers in Kazan
Right now our judges are checking some 200 pre-qualified ttWP articles
created by 67 previously untrained school teams in the framework of Tatar 4.0 contest. Prizes provided by local partner, introduction to the contest video, Messenger support, participant & article tagging, prequalification & assessing on volunteering time. 10 best teams to be publicly awarded at Ğabdulla Tuqay memorial event downtown Kazan on April 26.
Contest in Tatar - https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82:%D0%A2%D0... Lessons learnt in Russian -
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BC%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0...
This all follows our February presentation
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/February_2019/Contents/Russia...
regards, farhad
-- Farhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 /
skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan / Wikidata:Q34036417
08.02.2019, 22:23, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" <
frhd@yandex.com>:
Some news:
I managed to get vocal approval of the proposal to transfer
Wiki-competencies to Tatarstan public by Federal Deputy Prime-Minister Maxim Akimov and had Regional President Rustam Minnikhanov express his invitation to the subject-minister (Vice Prime-Minister of Tatarstan - InfoComm minister Roman Shaykhutdinov) to prepare necessary proposals for organizing the process in a successful scalable way. I will have to do more thinking and writing now so as to try have this implemented first in my Republic, then across Russia.
I was given less than a minute during pre-Conference tour of the
project stands prepared by corporations and state enterprises (without slides or any visual support), so I had to skim to the very facts and the value proposition that would get their attention.
On a more tangible side,
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Selet_WikiSchool that I started back in 2016, will get support from the regional budget & thus expand. Currently this is on the shoulders of a team consisting of high-school senior, a University freshman and a sophomore/junior from one rural school.
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 /
skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
17.01.2019, 18:35, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" <
frhd@yandex.com>:
Dear colleagues,
You can track my preparation in English @
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BC%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0... (date move to accommodate VIP participants' schedules).
I had to skim my original 18 minute text to under 7.
I intend to touch on most of what had to go via the Slides which
will accompany my talk.
Tatar components will be prepared last, as Russian and English are
best tools for getting feedback from across the Wiki-world.
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 /
skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
14.01.2019, 19:10, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" <
frhd@yandex.com>:
Dear colleagues,
This is a heads-up on the fact that on Jan.29 I will be speaking
in Tatar (with simultaneous interpretation of my words into Russian) at the Republic of Tatarstan Ministry for ICT closing conference for 2018 in front of the President of the Republic, Russia's Federal minister for ICT, members of Tatarstan government, industry & the press, possibly some participants from nearby regional ministries.
I will have some 7-10 min to present on
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Smart_region , rough English translation for the base page completed today.
It will be a basic intro level talk accompanied by slides about
some things that can be appropriately mentioned without overburdening the public hearing about Wiki-community activities for the first time in their lives. I will email you draft text around the end of the week (once I am comfortable with it), with some ideas on the slides I will play along my speech and a list of recommended follow-on measures.
Expected outcome: Presidential instruction to the Tatarstan
government to for a cross-departmental working group to study what ICT ministry led Wikimedia working group (since August 2018) has came up with & look into possible way of integrating this into Tatarstan social life (I was offered to formulate it myself today).
Other related Wikimedia Russia news:
- On or around Feb.8, we are to have first follow-on introduction
of Wikipedia Education Program to wider professors & students' body of Kazan Federal University Institute for International Relations, with director of which we had a productive meeting on Dec.21, following the events described in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/December_2018/Contents/Russia...
- On Feb.28-March 1 we are invited to field speakers for
http://eduforumkazan.ru/ (attended by Russia's Federal Minister for Education and her team)
regards, farhad
-- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 /
skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
05.11.2018, 17:22, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" <
frhd@yandex.com>:
Dear colleagues, Below is my October activities report & description of upcomingevents
1) On Oct.13-14 athttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2018 we presented some of the things we are doing in Russia (FYI: without any WMF grants). See details at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/October_2018/Contents/Russia_...
2) On Oct.20 I had a two hour long meeting with the Deputy headof Tatarstan Presidential Adiministration responsible for internal policy http://president.tatarstan.ru/eng/apparat/structure?person_id=19792&depa... who officially invited me to engage Wikimedia Russia and other Wikimedia movement volunteers to develop "Smart wiki-region" roadmap for regional authorities throughout the Russian Federation to start learning about the Wikimedia movement and understanding how partnering therewith could be of mutual interests. This was a follow up of the Oct.1 meeting with Mintimer Shaimiev https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-October/091151.html, but mainly around my last year's musings I finally finished translating into English today @ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Frhdkazan/Wiki4RegionalDevt
3) On Oct.23 We have started growing the project on WMRU-wiki athttps://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BC%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0... (currently in Russian only), using also eponymous thread at [wikimedia-ru] mailing list (last message https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2018-November/004914.html ).
4) In mid-November we are expecting to have a presentation ofthe project and our domestic experience https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Selet_WikiSchool at the large meeting called on by the ex-President of Tatarstan, State Councillor to the Republic, UNESCO Special envoy for Intercultural Dialogue Mintimer Shaimiev http://shaimiev.tatarstan.ru/eng - with invitation of
* First Deputy Head of the Tatarstan Presidential Administration( http://president.tatarstan.ru/eng/apparat/structure?person_id=32&departm... ),
* a large body of regional ministers ** Tatar community affairshttp://prav.tatarstan.ru/eng/pravit/3.htm
** Education and sciencehttp://mon.tatarstan.ru/eng/rukov/minister.htm
** ICT http://mic.tatarstan.ru/eng/minister.htm ** Culture http://mincult.tatarstan.ru/eng/rukov/minister.htm ** Youth affairshttp://prav.tatarstan.ru/rus/pravit/ministr-min-molodezhi
* head of regional media holdinghttp://tatmedia.tatarstan.ru/eng/director.htm
* head of the Institute of Tatar encyclopediahttp://antat.ru/ru/ite/staff/5679/
* head of the House of Friendship of Nations of Tatarstanhttp://addnt.ru/house/management/director/
5) Tomorrow morning I will be meeting with the Vice-Primier -Minister for the ICT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Shaykhutdinov for preliminary discussions, then my high-school senior Timerkhan https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%... will assist him the next day at the preparatory meeting with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mintimer_Shaimiev.
6) I didn't yet have time to think in detail about the potentialschedule or invited participants of the first public Wiki-seminar in Tatarstan, meant to expose locals to the Wikimedia movement and its best practices even if only via the video-conference (which I mentioned in the previous update), because I am doing this in between of my rather demanding work and some limited family life. The topic will most likely surface among other things tomorrow.
regards, farhad -- Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 /skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
04.10.2018, 08:32, "Pine W" <wiki.pine@gmail.com>:> Hi Farhad, > > I'm very impressed with your successes so far. > > My main concern is how much of this you seem to be doing by
yourself. I
> hope that you have a group of people who are collaborating
with you so that
> you don't feel responsible for doing everything personally,
and that you
> aren't putting yourself into personal financial difficulty due
to the
> amount of time that you're spending on Wikimedia activities. > > Regarding which people would be good to invite to a
conference, I think
> that GLAM and educational organizations would be natural
partners so I
> suggest starting with them. > > WMF might be willing to provide you with some advice and/or
funding for
> GLAM or education related work if you request it, although the
wait times
> for WMF "Rapid Grants" funding seem to have become lengthy, so
I suggest
> that if you want funding from that program that you should
request it at
> least two full months in advance and not rely on receiving it
in time for
> any particular deadline. > > I'm glad to hear that you're participating in Wikimedia CEE
and I hope that
> the affiliates in that group can provide you with good advice. > > Best wishes, > > Pine > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:
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