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Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2025: Invitation

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Dear Omotecho!

Wikimedia Ukraine, in cooperation with the MFA of Ukraine and Ukrainian Institute would like to invite you to once again participate in annual "Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month". We accept contribution in all language editions of Wikipedia! As always, the campaign is dedicated to famous Ukrainian artists of cinema, music, literature, architecture, design, and cultural phenomena of Ukraine that are now part of world heritage.

Join the campaign and win valuable prizes!

You are also welcome to translate the landing page of the contest and banner into your own language.

As part of the campaign, we’ve also prepared a special event for you!

Have you ever explored a museum not in person, but as your digital avatar? Join us for a guided virtual tour through the Museum of Stolen Art — during the tour, you’ll learn how Russian forces looted and demolished museum collections and cultural monuments in occupied cities, with a particular focus on Mariupol.

💬 You’ll also have the opportunity to translate and improve articles related to the event as part of the UCDM 2025 campaign.

You received this message because you participated in the previous iterations of Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month. OlesiaLukaniuk (WMUA) (talk)

16:14, 16 April 2025 (UTC)

This Month in Education: April 2025

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Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2025: Second invitation

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Dear Omotecho!

The last week to join to the "Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2025" — participate until 16th May🧩!

Thank you for your contribution the last year. This year, we again accept contributions in all language editions of Wikipedia! The campaign is dedicated to famous Ukrainian artists of cinema, music, literature, architecture, design, and cultural phenomena of Ukraine that are now part of world heritage.

Join the campaign and win valuable prizes!

You are also welcome to translate the landing page of the contest and banner into your own language.

You received this message because you participated in the previous iterations of Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month. OlesiaLukaniuk (WMUA) (talk) 15:52, 11 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

This Month in Education: May 2025

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The Wikipedia Library and invite sources in Japan

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(Ja follows en: 後半に日本語があります)

@WhatamIdoing, I am trying to brainstorm here and wish @Wadakuramon would input better approaches.

The Wikipedia Library is not popular among Japanese speaking users, since its handier for them to search the National Library of Japan database to find reliable sources. The discussion is posted on Talk:The_Wikipedia_Library, thread [#Request business resources Request business resources]

Then, there are major publishers native to Japan, which contracts with their counterpart overseas: the National Geography has contracted the Nikkei Newspaper Company to issue NG's ja language edition almost 20yrs, with original/local articles inserted.

For academic papers and books, it is where librarians will lead us understand the landscape,

That will hint us which company is easier to nudge and follow their contracting publisher outside of Japan (ex NG); I mean, those who will give us priviledge to use their database. Might they jump across the gap easier, between commercial interest to becoming a free-knowledge sponsor ? (crossing my finger.)

ウィキペディア図書館(以下TWL)で話題が上がり、日本語話者にも「データベースを使いたい商業出版社」を提案してもらえないかという流れになりました。いずれ状況を整理して、広い場で声をかけようと思うのですが、まずおおざっぱに課題や、交渉先の候補をどう探すか、メモを書きます。

残念ながら、現状でTWLには日本語資料が少ないため、JAWPその他で活用されていないと想像します。各社と実際の交渉へ進む前に日本国内から情報を提供して「おおよその風景・風向き」を整理できないかと考えます。

例として特殊かもしれませんが、日経BPとナショナル ジオグラフィック社は、原本の丸ごと翻訳ではなく日本語版独自の記事を織り込み、表題は『ナショナル ジオグラフィック』を変えていません。

また、TWLで利用したい候補の出版社や学会出版物などありましたら、TWLの正式の申請手順 Suggest(提案)をご参照ください。

図書館司書など情報工学に強い方にお知恵を借りたく、よろしくお願い申し上げます。


Open issue: ------

調べること

  • (1) Workflow: Is there any librarian-friendly way to list any target publishing houses? If there is, that list/formula will be very helpful to have the general landscape in Japan, lisitng those eager to joint venture with overseas language publishers.

Ideas: ------

Agencies vs Printing companies.

(a) translated books

Usually, publishing agents are contracted in Japan for titles translated from non-Japanese languages. Pioneer since 1940s, or Tuttle-Mori Agency,[1], to visual books specialist Kōdansha International for Penguin International[2].

(b) licensing professionals

Mega printing companies like Dai Nippon Printing also have employees to arrange sourcing original books to be translated into Japanese or visa versa (export).

  • Do you recommend any wise/handy platform, or spreadsheet format to jot down ideas?

Omotecho (talk) 06:57, 4 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

You know so much more than I do, that unfortunately I can make no useful suggestions. WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:01, 6 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

Growth News #34

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18:51, 17 June 2025 (UTC)