Reports/WMRU-Report-2018
Wikimedia RU Activities Report 2017
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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
[edit]Wikimedia RU organized several events in order to help people to share their experience, to improve social interactions, and to invite newcomers.’’
| Logo | Title | Start date | End date | Venue | Description |
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| Wiki Meetup in Yekaterinburg | 2018-12-20 | 2018-12-20 | Ural Ravioli, Yekaterinburg | Meeting with Wikinews editors in Siberia | |
| Wiki Meetup in Petrozavodsk | 2018-12-14 | 2018-12-14 | KarNTs and Parizhanka, Petrozavodsk | Meeting with Wikimedians from Karelia | |
| Free Knowledge Award 2018 | 2018-09-23 | 2018-09-23 | Boiling Point, St.Petersburg | Largest annual Wikimedia-related international event in Russia | |
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Wiki-Award 2018 | 2018-09-23 | 2018-09-23 | Boiling Point, St.Petersburg | A prize for the Wikimedians made most in the year |
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Wiki-Conference 2018 | 2018-09-22 | 2018-09-23 | Boiling Point, St.Petersburg | Largest annual Wikimedia-related international event in Russia |
| Meetup in Kyzyl, Tyva | 2018-08-23 | 2018-08-24 | Kyzyl | Meeting with Wikimedians from Tyva | |
| Meetups in Yakutsk | 2018-06-06 | 2018-06-07 | St. Petersburg | Meetups with Yakutia (Sakha) Republic Wikimedians and officials, mostly regards Yakut (Sakha) Wikipeidia and Yakutia (Sakha) Republic information | |
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Wikimedia RU 10 years meetups | 2018-05-24 | 2018-05-25 | St. Petersburg | Meetups devoted to Wikimedia RU 10-th anniversary, but covered much larger topics |
| Wiki Meetup in Khabarovsk | 2018-04-05 | 2018-04-05 | Khabarovsk | Meeting with Wikimedians from Far East, one of the least reachable region | |
| Meeting with Russian Civic Chamber members | 2018-01-30 | 2018-01-30 | Russian Civic Chamber, Moscow | Meeting between Wikimedians and Civic Chamber members |
Also there were organized seminars for librarians and other specialists outside Wikimedia movement, with talks about Wikimedia movement, Wikipedia, free content, free licenses and public domain:
| Date | Venue |
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| 2018-12-19 | Tver state universal scientific library after Gorky, Tver |
| 2018-12-12 | Central city library, Zheleznovodsk |
| 2018-12-12 | Library after Gorky, Pyatigorsk |
| 2018-12-11 | Central library system, Essentuki |
| 2018-12-04 | Library of KarNTs, Petrozavodsk |
| 2018-11-27 | Suzdal |
| 2018-09-24 | Erevan, Armenia |
| 2018-08-23 | National library after Pushkin, Kyzyl |
| 2018-06-28 | Saint Petersburg Politechnical University, St. Petersburg |
| 2018-06-25 | Central scientific medic library of Moscow State Medic University, Moscow |
| 2018-06-21 | State public scientific and technical library of Russia, Moscow |
| 2018-06-15 | Russian State Library for Children, Moscow |
| 2018-06-14 | Astrakhan oblast scientific library after Krupskaya, Astrakhan |
| 2018-06-07 | Sakha Republic state library, Yakutsk |
| 2018-06-06 | Youth library, Yakutsk |
| 2018-06-06 | Russia, My History Historical Park, Yakutsk |
| 2018-05-21 | Stavropol krai library after Lermontov, Stavropol |
| 2018-05-08 | Murmansk state oblast universal scientific library, Murmansk |
| 2018-04-24 | Russian state library, Moscow |
| 2018-04-17 | Kostroma oblast scientific universal library, Kostroma |
| 2018-04-06 | Kaliningrad oblast scientific library after Gorky, Kaliningrad |
| 2018-03-29 | Primorskiy krai public library after Gorky, Vladivostok |
| 2018-03-13 | Samara oblast universal scientific library, Samara |
| 2018-02-28 | Volgograd oblast library after Gorky, Volgograd |
| 2018-02-16 | Novgorod oblast universal scientific library, Great Novgorod |
| 2018-01-16 | Russian State Library for Children, Moscow |
‘’Wikimedia RU also organized Webinars about Wikipedia and free content:’’
| Date | Venue |
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| 2018-12-21 | State library of Yugra, Khanty-Mansiysk |
| 2018-01-17 | Russian state library for children, Moscow |
Contests
[edit]‘’Wikimedia RU organized a lot of contests in order to invite new authors and to motivate established ones to participate more actively.’’
| Logo | Title | Start date | End date | Participants count | Articles created | Files uploaded |
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Know world. Start with sister cities | 2018-11-01 | 2019-03-01 | 73 | 2 464 | 52 749 |
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Wiki Loves Monuments 2018 | 2018-09-01 | 2018-09-30 | 905 | — | 32 598 |
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Scientific photos competition 2019 | 2018-07-15 | 2018-10-02 | 195 | — | 1172 |
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History of Russian Enterpreneurship 2018 | 2018-07-15 | 2018-08-15 | 14 | 245 | — |
 
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Know Russia. Graduates and mentors: Siberian and Ural federal districts | 2018-07-12 | 2018-09-20 | 12 | 281 | — |
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Soccer marathon 2018 | 2018-06-14 | 2018-07-15 | 9 | 409 | — |
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Numismatics and bonistics article of the year — 2018 | 2018-05-23 | 2019-02-15 | 344 Wikipedia articles, 6 Wikinews articles |
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Wiki Loves Eartcg 2018 | 2018-05-15 | 2018-06-15 | 351 | — | 6863 |
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Coins of International Numismatic Club museum collection | 2018-04-01 | 2018-10-31 | 43 | 168 | 352 |
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Wiki Spring 2018 | 2018-03-21 | 2018-05-31 | 17 (in Russian) | 234 (in Russian) | — |
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Know Russian. Cities and regions of Soccer World Championship 2018 | 2018-03-14 | 2018-07-15 | 64 | 2216 | 14800 |
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WikiGap 2018 | 2018-03-08 | 2018-04-08 | 30 | 548 | — |
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Winter Olympic Marathon of Good Will | 2018-02-09 | 2018-03-18 | 18 | 567 | — |
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Know Russia. Graduates and Mentors | 2018-01-26 | 2018-05-26 | 42 | 1775 | — |
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Public Domain 2018 | 2017-12-25 | 2018-06-30 | 37 | 442 Wikipedia articles, 2381 Wikisource works |
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Open Library contest for libraries | 2017-10-25 | 2018-06-30 | 22 libraries | — | 1854 |
Wikimedia RU members also participated events organized by other Wikimedia movement entities, and helped other Wikimedians to participate them:
| Logo | Title | Start date | End date | Participants count | Articles created | Files uploaded |
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Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2018 | 2018-10-13 | 2018-10-15 | Lviv, Ukraine | ||
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Wikimania 2018 | 2018-07-18 | 2018-07-22 | Cape Town, South Africa | ||
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Wikimedia Conference 2018 | 2018-07-18 | 2018-07-22 | Cape Town, South Africa |
Wiki-expeditions
[edit]Wikimedia RU organized several expeditions and excursions to help volunteers to get knowledge and put it into Wikimedia projects.
| Picture | Date | Subject | Photos, etc. |
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2018-04-19 | Archangelskoye Estate Museum, Archangelskoye Estate, Russia | Photo, Report |
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2018-03-20 | Vadim Zadorozhny technical museum, Arkhangelskoe | Photos, Report |
Wiki-education
[edit]Wikimedia RU continues efforts to encourage studets to participate Wikimedia projects.
| Venue | Description |
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| Faculty of Psychology, Moscow State University | Students were educated to write articles in Wikipedia and then asked to write high-quality articles on psychlogy |
| Petrozavodsk State University | Students were educated to work in Wikimedia projects, were asked to make edits in Wikimedia projects |
Projects
[edit]Wikimedia RU organized or supported projects helping people to contribute Wikimedia projects.
- Open Library Resource Center
- Open Heritage Resource Center
In course of these projects there were created some materials:
| Cover and link | Description |
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Open Library. Recommendations for libraries on use of open licenses and open access publications |
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Access to culture and culture of access |
| link | Copyright and public domain in Russia |
| link | Wikipedia. What's inside and how it works |
Legislation
[edit]Wikimedia RU continues expert work on legislation.
- Orphan works