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Smart region^{.Republic of Tatarstan}
Using possibilities of Wikimedia projects for supporting regional development of the Republic of Tatarstan

Republic of Tatarstan

This page describes cooperation with Tatarstan Investment Development Agency towards raising international awareness about the region and its investment potential, as well as specific projects under the agency's purview.

Topics for cooperation

TIDA is interested to provide every person on the planet with a chance to learn about what Tatarstan has to offer via:

Alabuga and Innopolis Special Economic Zones, IT-park, other sciences and Industrial parks of Tatarstan, as well as its Territories under accelerated socio-economic development program
KazanSummit and other conferences,
and all things related.

Wikimedia projects provide a good opportunity to address this task in all actively used languages of the planet.

Collaboration Format

In the course of the first meeting and following correspondence^[1] TIDA representatives expressed:

interest to have own staff and that of partners be supported by means of short hands-on workshops introducing them to editing and content creation for Wikimedia projects,
the fact that their entity is unable to provide grants (functional responsibility area & other limitations in Bylaws),
would prefer to delegate organizational work they don't have in-house skills for,
would like to receive a packaged proposal for implementation of related works to be supplied in line with Russian government procurement process.

Ideal Outcome

Knowledge on all areas of interest is adequately introduced into global mental map in all languages of the world.^[2].
All specified lists of pages come with tools
- to track pageview stats (similar to general one on Tatarstan)
- to compare various indicators (similar to Tatarstan municipalities wiki-rating and/or wiki-rating of some Russia, UCLG and UN hubs).
There is a mechanism for timely updating reflected information.
All materials, procedures and actions on behalf and in the interest of the Republic of Tatarstan are strictly in line with respective Wikimedia project policies.

The way this can be achieved

TIDA is interested in finding a contractor, capable to help it achieve the Ideal Outcome in a most effective manner. Such a contractor will need to use the following methods:

Rewarded contribution

Links to Wikimedia projects' Paid editing disclosure policies. Some language sections also have essays on paid contribution.
Reasonable for:
1. preparing wiki-list of elements for creation and linked works, setting up stats monitoring pages.
2. creating sample Wikidata elements, articles in Wikipedia and Wiki-voyage language sections, templates and other mandatory aspects for successful project implementation
3. complex types of works, such as developing category trees in Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia and Wikivoyage language sections (whenever appropriate).
4. developing procedures for organizing and conducting Wiki-contests and edit-a-thons
5. payment for works, ineffective or impossible for implementation by means of international wiki article contests and edit-a-thons
When organizing such a large scale project of international collaboration in paid editing,^[3] requires
- a set of mechanisms and procedures to provide for the process transparency for all international (multicultural and multilingual) Wikimedia stakeholders and Wikimedia movement participants.
- an ability of participating Wikimedia chapters and other affiliates to comply with Conflict of interest guide for Wikimedia movement organizations.

Wiki-contests and edit-a-thons

См. также: Умный регион/Татарстан/Структура/en#Organizing Wiki-Contests and Marathons

Require
- preparation of word lists (examples in Russian, Tatar and multilingual Wikipedia tables 1, 2 and 3)
- developing contest Rules and Terms
- attracting qualified Jury
- offering monetary or other Prizes, adequate to expected participant efforts
Might require complex coordination with international partners within Wikimedia movement (1, 2 and 3)
Effective and efficient for
- ending up with a large amount of multilingual content meeting Wiki-requirements (1, 2, 3)
- significant Russia and international support already in the process
- possibility to engage into the process local volunteer-organizers and wider circles of interested editors
- generating good mass media coverage opportunities

Training

How to use monitoring and analytics tools
Principles of productive participation in Wikimedia environment
Independent contribution within Wikimedia projects
- updating Wikidata element data
- uploading photo and media files into Wikimedia Commons categories,
- adding and/or clarifying information in multilingual Wikipedia and Wikivoyage articles.

Project Management

Coordination with international Wikimedia stakeholders to avoid potential conflicts (at all stages of the project)
Identifying qualified subcontractors, preparation of project and working documentation, distribution of tasks (whenever appropriate)

Contractor qualifications

General contractor

Non-blocked/banned Wikimedia username with many years of active contribution into various Wikimedia projects in diversity of languages
Experienced in:
- creating similar public wiki-materials, help pages and guidelines, templates, categories, monitoring pages and generating reports in Tatar, Russian and English
- successful organization and participation in implementing comparable Russia-wide and International multilingual WikiProjects
- international communications support of various Wiki-initiatives
- analyzing and using mass media materials and other sources for referencing facts about objects in Tatarstan
Membership and active public participation in Russia's and international Wikimedia movement affiliates and groups
Personal presence in Kazan for conducting necessary presentations and practical workshops for TIDA, superior, line and subordinate organization staff, as well as partners.

Wiki-contest participants

Non-blocked/banned Wikimedia username
Experience of constructive participation in Wiki-community, good navigation in respective project and its language section policies
Ability to work with sources, independently create and properly format encyclopedic text
Wiki-Content translation work environment skills
Compliance with project-related instructions and contest rules

Work Breakdown

Create mulilingual WikiProject page
- Description minimum in Tatar, Russian and English
- List of pages for creation (examples 1, 2 and 3)
- Page for easy collection of comparative stats on covered elements, categories and articles
- Page with project-related instructions
  - mandatory requirements for project participants
  - templates for tagging created materials
  - categories for inclusion
  - list of sample materials for each of the covered Wikimedia projects
Create, fill and link Wikidata elements (labels minimum in Tatar, Russian and English)
Prepare sample articles in Tatar, English and Russian Wikipedia and organize further translation into other target languages.
Organize and conduct Wiki-article contest in the following nominations
- Shoot and upload photo & multimedia material to related Wikimedia Commons categories
- Create Wikipedia articles (in line with sample article structure).
- Improve existing Wikipedia articles (in line with sample article structure).
- Mention and otherwise link to the newly created or improved Wikipedia articles (in line with sample article examples).
- Mention the phenomena in Wikivoyage articles dedicated to respective cities, districts or settlements and describe them in line with respective language section standards.

References

↑ Report on 19.03.2020 meeting outcomes (Russian)
↑ starting with target languages of the world used on TIDA website. Drop-down list in top right corner shows English, Russian, Tatar, German, French, Spanish, Turkish, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean.
↑ Масштабные проекты с оплачиваемым участием и иным материальным вознаграждением