WikiUral
WikiUral 2020 Competition is a global Wiki contest dedicated to Ural, subcompetition of the Wikipedia Asian Month 2020 contest. The purpose of the contest is creation and improvement of articles that correspond to Wikipedia notability guidelines. We invite you to enrich Wikipedia with quality works about the Earth's nature phenomenon—Ural mountains, history of its discovery, exploration, economy and culture of the Ural region and other aspects of Uralic life.
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The contest is dedicated to the memory of Lev Vladimirovich Ban'kovsky, scientist and encyclopedist who lived in Ural region and worked for long time at Ural branch of Russian Academy of Sciences. During preparations for the contest many of the materials (classifiers, glossaries, dictionaries and encyclopaedias) were used which also were used by Bankovsky when he was working on Ural Encyclopaedia, Upper Kama Encyclopaedia and other works.
- Time: November 1st, UTC 00:00 to November 30, UTC 23:59, 2020.
- Tools: The Fountain tool.
- Rules: Rules for the contest part are published here. And WikiUral Competition have special rules and nominations.
The definition of Ural is:
Ural (russian: Урал) — geographical region located in Russia and Kazakhstan, also Ural economic region and administrative division of Ural Federal District.
What Ural is famous for?
Stockpot of natural resources. It is an unique mountainous area and a stockpot of natural resources. According to scientists, this mountainous system emerged in the early Paleozoic Age. The stone belt appeared when the Western-Siberian Platform overthrust the Russian Plain. The remains of formerly huge volcanic mass suggest that half a billion years ago, magma was erupting here. Local geology formed thick oil-bearing strata and other mineral deposits.[1].
Shikhan-type mountains (Russian: шиханы). Researchers find a remarkable difference between the slope structures of Ural Mountains: for several geological periods, the sea had been washing western slopes and, thus, it left up to several kilometers thick layer of sediments. By the end of the Carboniferous age, the sea had retreated. However, Bashkir shikhans, ancient sea reefs, are still there to remind us about these ancient times. The Ural Mountains continue growing slowly but steadily.[1]
Perm geological system. The Discovery of Perm geological system began with the academic expeditions of P. Pallas, P. and N. Richkov in the 18th century. An English geologist R. Murchison was the leader of another expedition, worked in the Urals in 1841. As the result of this work there was the global discovery—the discovery of Perm geological system. The main arguments in favor of Murchison's idea were the enormous fossils (more than 188 kinds), that had been found in the Urals and in the north of the European Russia. In the 1950th and 60th years the first Soviet mechanized paleontological excavations were made, headed by P. Chudinov in the village Ezhovo near Ochor. The results were incredible. Ten unknown kinds of fossil animals were found.[2]
Country of Towns. As early as 3,600—3,800 years ago, the South Urals have been a home of an unique civilization of over two dozen of cities. It was named a proto-city civilization, Russia's oldest Country of Cities. Its citizens knew metal production technology and could easily process granite, quartz and other rather hard rocks.[1]
Mining industry ("Gornozavodskaya") "civilization". In the 18—19th centuries, successful surveys of various natural resources gave birth to a new Ural "civilization", now used to be called "mining civilization" ("Gornozavodskaya"). Ethnographer and literature theorist Prof. Bogoslovsky proved its existence. From the early 18th to the middle of 19th century, 260 industrial cities have been built in the Urals, i.e. more than half of the cities built in the rest of Russia within the same period. These cities had a distinct purpose and specific style of artistic design. In the first quarter of the 19th century, industrial cities grew big enough to have ensemble architecture, a governorate (regional) architect, and architects of mining factories and areas. A significant part of the Ural culture, these cities are essential from the viewpoint of global science, technology and art. In the 18th century, industrial cities made the Urals not only the area of largest industrial construction, but also the world's largest metallurgy center.[1]
Ural equipment. Many different Urals machines influenced not only domestic, but the whole world's engineering industry. For example, among the products of the Ural manufacturing plants is a giant walking shovel (dragline excavator) ESH-100.100 (boom length of 100 meters, and bucket capacity of 100 cubic meters). The journalists gave this machine a name "an exclamation mark of the domestic excavating machines construction process".[3]
About contacts
- Contacts. Participants are encouraged to provide their e-mail addresses to the organizers. All of the participants are urged to register their e-mails in the Wikimedia project user settings.
- Contact: Nikolai.Litvinov
Wikimedia.RU (User:Niklitov)
Prizes
Prizes for English Wikipedia
For the maximum number and size of new and revised articles (please find Glossary):
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Russia Silk Headscarve for the 1st place -
20 Books about Birds of the Middle Ural by Vadim Riabitsev
For the 2nd place: the prize looks like a Money stone gift. More description: Money Stone gifts. (Urals Mountain gift. More description: Urals Mountain gifts. Reason for changing the prize: Customs requirements, high probability of damage to the prize in transit.)
For the 3rd place: the prize looks like a Money stone gift. More description: Money Stone gifts.
For participants will receive Perm Regional Museum postcards when they create 4 articles that fulfill the rules (please find Glossary). Attention: every new 4 articles = one postcard!
Prizes for Asian Month Wikipedias
Prize A: Participants will receive Perm Regional Museum postcards when they create 4 articles that fulfill the rules (in one language Wikipedia, please find Glossary). Attention: every new 4 articles = one postcard!
Prize B: For the first 20 places (the maximum number of articles on the topics Nature protection of the Urals, naturalists and biologists of the Urals) the prize is the Birds of the Middle Ural Book by mail form EkaterinBird.
Glossary
Glossary may be used for facilitation of the search for the article and templates creation topics:
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Anthropology, Linguistics
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See also:
Literature
- On Academia.edu
- On issuu.com
- Birds of the Middle Ural Book by Vadim Konstantinovich Riabitsev with CC BY-SA 3.0 license (only images and text)
- Belinsky Regional Electronic Library about Ural Region
- Perm Electronic Library about Ural Region
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WikiUral Team
- Global Jury and Organizing Committee
- Yuliya Glazyrina, Perm Regional Museum
- Sergey Ostrovskyi, Perm Regional Museum
Nina Sadykova, Yekaterinburg History Museum- Vladimir Medeyko (Drbug), Director of Wikimedia RU
- Nikolai Litvinov (Niklitov), Member of Wikimedia RU
Juries may vary by language edition and project and their nicknames are published in corresponding local pages. Experts may be involved: such as employees of other organizations and experienced Wikipedians. Jury members on Wikipedias will also be rewarded with a postcard from the Perm Regional Museum.
- Coordinator
- Engineering Team
- Secretary
- Teresa Sahakian, Perm State University, Faculty of foreign languages and literatures
Conditions for prize delivery
The delivery of prizes by mail is possible if a "physical" mailing address of a winner is provided. The information should be sent to organizers by e-mail nikolai.litvinov
wikimedia.ru not later than in 1 month after winners are announced. Postcards for those who created 4 articles in one language Wikipedia are sent by the Perm Regional Museum. Prizes for the English Wikipedia are sent by the Moiseikin Jewelry House.
3rd WikiUral 2020 Result
- 233 articles about Ural (including 19 non-competition articles)
- 21 Wikipedias (including Russian Wikipedia out of competition)
- 38 participants from all over the world
- 20 Books about Birds of the Middle Ural by Vadim Riabitsev
- 81 Perm Regional Museum postcards
- 3 main prizes by Moiseikin Jewellery House
- Additional prizes: virtual tours of the Perm Regional Museum in English; books, brochures.
- Control of prize delivery with trackers.
Organizers
See also
References
- ↑ a b c d Башкортостан. Слияние Европы и Азии. (Bashkortostan. At the Junction of Europe and Asia.) — Уфа: Издательский дом «Башкирская Пресса» (совместно с Правительством Республики Башкортостан), 2015 — С.32-33. (ШОС-БРИКС Уфа 2015).
- ↑ Л. Баньковский, П. Софроницкий. Л. Перескоков (англ. текст) Пермская система. (Perm geological system.) — Пермь: Пермский областной совет всероссийского общества охраны природы, Пермский областной комитет охраны природы, 1991. Международный геологический конгресс «Пермская система земного шара 1991» (Permian system of the world Congress 1991).
- ↑ Уралмашзавод в фактах. Фотоальбом. (Uralmash-UZTM Photoalbum.) — Екатеринбург: издательство ООО «Аристократ», 2013. — 144 с. — ISBN 978-5-7688-1088-7. — 1000 экз.