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Wikimedia RU Activities Report 2020
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Non-Commercial Partnership of promotion of distribution of encyclopedic knowledge Wikimedia RU is a legally independent Russian Non-Governmental organization. Wikimedia RU is the part of the international Wikimedia Movement, all the participant of which share mission of collection, creation, management and dissemination of freely-accessible knowledge. Therefore, most activities of Wikimedia RU are related to the Wikipedia Internet Encyclopedia, the Wikipedia Movement's most important achievement up to date.
The Wikimedia RU activies may be grouped in the following way:
- Internal Events and contests in order to help the volunteers and to motivate them.
- External activities including outreach and contacts with officials and right holders in order to changes Russian legislation and regulations, to pesuade the right holders to agree the changes and release their works under free license.
- Exchange of experience and best practices with other parts of the Wikimedia Movement.
- Fundraising and sposorship seeking.
Events
editWikimedia RU organized several events in order to help people to share their experience, to improve social interactions, and to invite newcomers.
The events include:
- Conferences that include several talks and round tables.
- Ceremonies related to granting awards or celebrations.
- Seminars contain one to three talks and possible master class aftewards.
- Webinars are online seminars.
- Expedition means organized travel of several wikimedians to museum, monument or other points of interest. They are supposed to help volunteers to get knowledge and put it into Wikimedia projects
- Meetings are formal meetings of Wikimedia RU members that are open for participation for non-members.
Unfortunately, the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic limited participation in off-line events.
Many outreach events are related to the Wikimedia RU's Alumnees and mentors and My Wikipedia projects.
| Event title | Start date | Finish date | Format | Sponsors and/or partners | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wiki local historians gathering | 2020-12-27 | 2020-12-25 | Expedition + conference | North-West Russia Wiki-Historians UG, SAFMAR | 15 |
| Seminar for Higher school of economics strudents and employees | 2020-12-26 | 2020-12-26 | Seminar | Presidential grants foundation | 20 |
| WMRU members meeting | 2020-12-18 | 2020-12-18 | Meeting | 8 | |
| Final seminar of Introduction in Wikipedia course | 2020-12-16 | 2020-12-16 | Seminar | Gulyaev A., Rayevski E. | |
| Volunteers of Culture in Wikipedia and sister projects | 2020-12-15 | 2020-12-15 | Webinar | Volunteers of Culture | |
| Aluminees and mentors project in Yakutsk | 2020-12-18 | 2020-12-15 | Seminars, webinars, press-conference | Presidential grants foundation | |
| Aluminees and mentors project in NAFU, Arkhangelsk | 2020-12-11 | 2020-12-11 | Webinar | Presidential grants foundation | 30 |
| Aluminees and mentors project in MSU | 2020-11-30 | 2020-11-30 | Seminar | Presidential grants foundation | 18 |
| Aluminees and mentors project in PetrSU, Petrozavodsk | 2020-11-19 | 2020-11-19 | Webinar | Presidential grants foundation | 42 |
| North Caucasian Wiki Seminar | 2020-11-07 | 2020-11-07 | Conference | Chechen Republic National library, SAFMAR | |
| Aluminees and mentors project in BelSU, Belgorod | 2020-10-10 | 2020-10-10 | Webinar | Presidential grants foundation | 17 |
| Talk and master class at PsyFaculty of MSU | 2020-10-01 | 2020-10-02 | Seminar | MSU | 117 |
| Aluminees and mentors project in GSPTU, Grozny | 2020-09-30 | 2020-09-30 | Seminar | Presidential grants foundation | 32 |
| Wiki Conference | 2020-09-27 | 2020-09-26 | Conference | Yandex, Tochka Kipeniya, North-West Russia Wiki-Historians UG, St. Petersburg Wikimedians UG, SAFMAR | |
| Alumnees and mentors project in PetrSU | 2020-09-24 | 2020-09-24 | Webinar | Presidential grants foundation | 6 |
| Talk about Wikipedia in Large Russian Encyclopedia | 2020-09-23 | 2020-09-23 | Seminar | Large Russian Encyclopedia | |
| Expedition to Rzhev | 2020-07-03 | 2020-07-03 | Expedition | SAFMAR | 3 |
| Aluminees and mentors project in JurFaculty, MSU, Moscow | 2020-07-23 | 2020-07-23 | Webinar | Presidential grants foundation | 20 |
| WMRU members meeting | 2020-07-01 | 2020-07-01 | Meeting | 13 | |
| Expedition to Patriot park | 2020-07-01 | 2020-07-01 | Expedition | 2 | |
| Aluminees and mentors project in RANEPA, Moscow | 2020-05-25 | 2020-05-25 | Seminar, master class | Presidential grants foundation | 52 |
| Wikipedia outside and inside | 2020-05-22 | 2020-05-22 | Webinar | Presidential grants foundation | 346 |
| Aluminees and mentors project in MSPU, Moscow | 2020-03-12 | 2020-03-12 | Seminar | Presidential grants foundation | 20 |
| Aluminees and mentors project in RANEPA, Moscow | 2020-02-22 | 2020-02-22 | Seminar, master class | Presidential grants foundation | 26 |
| Talk and seminar VseNauka 2020 forum | 2020-02-16 | 2020-02-16 | Seminar | Russian Globe Foundation | >20 |
| Free Knowledge Award | 2020-02-16 | 2020-02-16 | Ceremony | Russian Globe Foundation | >100 |
| Wiki Award | 2020-02-16 | 2020-02-16 | Ceremony | Russian Globe Foundation | >100 |
| WMRU members meeting | 2020-02-17 | 2020-02-17 | Meeting | 7 | |
| Aluminees and mentors project in SamSU, Samara | 2020-01-23 | 2020-01-20 | Seminars | Presidential grants foundation | 24 |
| Free content for teachers and librarians | 2020-01-17 | 2020-01-17 | Webinar |
Contests
editWikimedia RU organized a lot of contests in order to invite new authors and to motivate established ones to participate more actively.
There are two main types of contests:
- Articles writing contests. Users create and/or edit articles according on subject specified by the contest. The articles may be not only encyclopedic articles in Wikimedia, but also other similar content in sister projects too.
- Media files uploading. Users upload files (mostly photos) related to the specified topic.
| Contest title | Start date | Finish date | Project(s) | Sponsors and/or partners | Nominations | Winners | Prizes | Prize fund | Contestants | No. of created/edited articles | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Our universities | 2020-11-27 | 2020-12-20 | Wikipedia | Presidential grants foundation | 2 nominations | 20 | From 5 to 15 thousand rubles | 134 thousand rubles | 31 | 962 | — | |||
| Wiki Ural 2020, subcontest of Asian Month 2020 | 2020-11-01 | 2020-11-30 | 47 Wikipedia editions | Perm local history museum, Moiseikin Jewelry | 5 types of prizes | 33 | 233 | — | ||||||
| Know Russia. Novgorod lands | 2020-11-01 | 2020-12-15 | Wikipedia, Wikivoyage | North-West Russia Wiki-Historians UG, Don Wikimedians UG | 4 nominations | 12 | From 6 to 17 thousand rubles | 128 thousand rubles | 30 | 855 (Wikipedia) + 91 (Wikivoyage) | — | |||
| Wiki Loves Caucasus 2020 | 2020-10-01 | 2020-10-31 | Wikipedia | Wikimedia Community UG Georgia (global coorganizer), Azerbaijani Wikimedians UG, Don Wikimedians UG, Wikipedians of North Caucasus UG | 5 language nominations in Russia | 15 (3 for each language) | electronic devices | 21 | 613 | — | ||||
| How to walk to a library? | 2020-09-21 | 2020-11-21 | Russian Wikipedia | Nekrasov Library, Bookmate, Eschyonepozner, Writers’ coffee | 3 nominations | 15 | material | 45+1 books, 20 subscriptions, 9 bags, 9 tea packages | 23 | 308 | — | |||
| Alumnees and mentors of Russia 2020 | 2020-08-20 | 2020-10-10 | Wikipedia | Presidential grants foundation | 3 nominations | 30 | From 5 to 15 thousand rubles. | 201 thousand rubles. | 58 | 1431 | — | |||
| Encyclopedia core | 2020-08-07 | 2020-09-30 | Wikipedia | — | 2 nominations | 11 | From 5 to 25 thousand rubles. | 154 thousand rubles. | 45 | 2151 | — | |||
| Travelers and discoverers | 2020-07-27 | 2020-12-31 | Wikipedia | Private sponsors | 1 номинация | не менее 15 | книги | 15 books | — | — | — | |||
| Моё детство — война. 2 тур | 2020-06-22 | 2020-08-15 | Wikipedia | Don Wikimedians UG, Association of honored citizens, mentors and skilled youth | 2 nominations + 4 спецnominations | 15 | From 5 to 25 thousand rubles. | 142 thousand rubles. | 11 | 933 | — | |||
| Вики любит футбол | 2020-06-12 | 2020-07-12 | Wikipedia in Bashkir, Lezgi, Ossetic, Russian, Tatar, Tyvan, Chechen, Erzya and Sakha | Wikipedians of North Caucasus UG, Bashkortostan Wikimedians UG, Wikimedians writing in Erzya UG, Tatar language Wikimedians UG | 12 (3 winners in 4 groups) | 12 | Material | 20 thousand rubles | 24 | 285 | — | |||
| Тюркский марафон — 2020 | 2020-06-01 | 2020-06-31 | Wikipedia in Azerbajani, Bashkir, Kazakh, Russian, Sakha, Tatar, Tyvan, Ukrainian | — | 5 | 5 | Certificates | 20 thousand roubles | 32 | 593 | — | |||
| Science photos competition 2020 | 2020-04-02 | 2020-05-31 | Сommons | Science TV | 6 nomination | 18 | 10 thousand rubles (3 winners in each nomination) | 180 thousand rubles | 404 | — | 3003 | |||
| Stay home with Wikipedia | 2020-03-21 | 2020-05-19 | Russian Wikipedia, Commons | Private sponsors | 3 | 9 | — | 38 | 123 | 143 | ||||
| Wiki Spring 2020 | 2020-03-21 | 2020-05-31 | Wikipedias in Russian, Bashkinr, Tatar and Erzya | Wikimedia Foundation | 5 | 5 | Material | — | 22 | 250 | — | |||
| WikiGap 2020 | 2020-03-08 | 2020-05-08 | Wikipedia | Sweden embassy in Russia, Presidential grants foundations | 2 nominations | 30 | Monetary prizes 5 to 20 thousand rubles, books of Swedish writers, travel to Stockholm | 199 thousand rubles. | 94 | 4449 | — | |||
| Befriend finances | 2020-03-01 | 2020-05-31 | Wikipedia | Russian Minitstry of finanses, PAKK, INP | 3 nominations | 9 | From 12 to 36 thousand rubles. | 192 thousand rubles. | 16 | 436 | — | |||
| My childhood is war. Biographies | 2020-02-15 | 2020-04-15 | Wikipedia | Don Wikimedians UG, Association of honored citizens, mentors and skilled youth | 2 + 2 nominations | 16 | From 5 to 25 thousand rubles. | 137 thousand rubles. | 18 | 2011 | 673 | |||
| Antique mythology | 2020-02-04 | 2020-03-04 | Wikipedia | Institute of economic and social research | 1 nomination | 10 | From 4 to 20 thousand rubles. | 100 thousand rubles. | 19 | 535 | — | |||
| Total for 2020: Wikipedia +16 168 articles; Commons +3819 files | ||||||||||||||
Wiki-education
editWikimedia RU continues efforts to encourage students to participate Wikimedia projects.
| Course title | Sponsors and/or partners |
|---|---|
| Psychological Faculty of MSU | MSU |
| Course on wiki technologies in PetrSU | PetrSU |
| Introduction in Wikipedia course in MSU | Gulyaev A., Rayevski E. |
Materials
editWikimedia RU creates and publishes books and other materials.
| Cover and link | Description |
|---|---|
|
Wikipedia. Introductory course |
Legislation
editWikimedia RU continues expert work on legislation.
- Orphan works (the Wikimedia RU experts prepared a proposal to amend the legislation).