Non-Dominant Language Wikipedias: Lessons from the "Russian Knot"
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Non-dominant language Wikipedias: Lessons from the "Russian Knot" Farhad Fatkullin, Oleg Abarnikov and Zaytuna Nigamatyanova Text + Links w.wiki/VPH – Open slides w.wiki/VPD Celtic Knot Conference 2020 Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland / Online July 9-10, 2020 Presenter affiliations Oleg Abarnikov Zaytuna Nigamatjanova Farhad Fatkullin User:Soul Train User:З. ӘЙЛЕ User:frhdkazan * Wikimedia Russia WMRU * Wikimedians of * Wikimedia Russia WMRU * LezgiWP admin Bashkortostan UG BAK * Tatar language * SWMT member * Wikimedia Languages Wikimedians UG TAT * Wikipedians of North of Russia Community * Wikimedia Languages of Caucasus UG RU-NC * Founder of Wiki- Russia Community * Wikimedia Languages of Grannies UG WGR * Wikimedia Language Russia Community * Turkic Wikimedians Diversity UG TRK * Turkic Wikimedians UG TRK Non-dominant language Wikipedias: Lessons from the "Russian Knot“@ Celtic Knot Conference 2020, July 9-10 w.wiki/VPH Collaborations Wikimedian- #WikiForHumanRights in-Residence Non-dominant language Wikipedias: Lessons from the "Russian Knot“@ Celtic Knot Conference 2020, July 9-10 w.wiki/VPH Outline • Introduction (3 min., Farhad) – Who we are – Why are we here – Key messages – Our context – Our challenges • Stats review of Wikipedias in our languages (6 min., Oleg) • Our best practices (4 min., Farhad) • Bashkir Wiki case (4 min., Zaytuna) • Community welcome video (2 min) • Closing Non-dominant language Wikipedias: Lessons from the "Russian Knot“@ Celtic Knot Conference 2020, July 9-10 w.wiki/VPH Who we are Non-dominant language Wikipedias: Lessons from the "Russian Knot“@ Celtic Knot Conference 2020, July 9-10 w.wiki/VPH Our wikiverse Wikipedia: 33 Mainspace, 46 Incubator Wikibooks: 8 Mainspace, 2 Incubator Commons: 7 Mainpages Meta-Wiki: 9 Mainpages 17 Categories 30 Categories Wikisource: Wikiquote: 6 own domain, 4 Mainspace, 23 Multilingual 6 Incubator Wikinews: Wikispecies: 3+10 Mainspace 6 Mainpages 8 in Incubator 3 Templates Wiktionary: 7 Mainspace МediaWiki: 24 Incubator 4 Mainpages Wikiversity: 2 Mainspace 11 Categories Wikimedia Incubation: 2 Incubator 93 + 23 + 2 Wikivoyage: Wikidata: 3 Mainspace, 8 Mainpages 7 Incubator 16 Categories Non-dominant language Wikipedias: Lessons from the "Russian Knot“@ Celtic Knot Conference 2020, July 9-10 w.wiki/VPH Why are we here Strong connection to Celtic Knot Conference themes: • Bringing people together has been an important topic in Northern Eurasia from pre-Golden Horde times, • traditions of organizing information sharing in minority languages have seen important boost in the USSR era and • we actively using multilingual Wikimedia projects to strengthen domestic multilingualism and making it serve the sustainability and multicultural diversity of our homeland and the planet that we all co-own, • "Russian Knot" practices already benefit projects in Northern Saami, Tamil and others Non-dominant language Wikipedias: Lessons from the "Russian Knot“@ Celtic Knot Conference 2020, July 9-10 w.wiki/VPH Important from our experience • Wikidata language codes for all ~7000 languages on the planet • Wikimedia news, help pages, guidelines and documents in all state languages of UN Member states (~50) More than 50% of the world's languages are located in just eight countries: • Wikimedia events covered India, Brazil, Mexico, Australia, with simultaneous Indonesia, Nigeria, Papua New interpretation into regional Guinea and Cameroon. auxiliary languages (UN6+). Non-dominant language Wikipedias: Lessons from the "Russian Knot“@ Celtic Knot Conference 2020, July 9-10 w.wiki/VPH Important from our experience (2) • Strict adherence to principles of consensus, balance of power and interests – all participants, affiliates, projects, languages other stakeholders • Diversity and mutual support of all Wikimedia participants and stakeholders Convention for the Safeguarding of the • Prioritize and support Intangible Cultural Heritage doesn’t preservation of smaller linguistic seem to be a priority for Russia and UK, communities and developing as well as North America, Australia, their wiki-skills or risk ignoring Thailand and a number of African Wikimedia Vision and countries Wikipedia:Purpose Non-dominant language Wikipedias: Lessons from the "Russian Knot“@ Celtic Knot Conference 2020, July 9-10 w.wiki/VPH Our context • 14 language families, 150 languages Challenges with grant support of the • Language status: Russian (Federal), project development: 37 regional state languages and • Love-hate relationship between over 15 with Official recognition political elites of the United States • English most popular foreign (Wikimedia Foundation) and the language Russian Federation (native speakers), • Cultural distance between regional • Foreign project outside of local state/recognized languages and legislation complicates local funding Russian is higher than between • Qualified native speakers, living the Russian & English. culture and having wiki-skills are not • Russia delegates well-being of ready to waste precious time indigenous linguistic diversity to learning various bureaucratic grant respective regional authorities. filing procedures (Federal, Regional • 72 out of 85 Federal subjects of or Municipal grants) and/or even Russia have regional budget deficits taking part in contests and other initiatives they don't understand or feel strongly about Non-dominant language Wikipedias: Lessons from the "Russian Knot“@ Celtic Knot Conference 2020, July 9-10 w.wiki/VPH Our challenges Factors at play: Translation: 1. Diversity of cultural worlds, one-size-fit-all legal 1. Get used to living in a few parallel cultural environment, equal opportunities and freedom mediums with different rules of choice 2. Preservation of intangible cultural heritage 2. Existing resources and infrastructure biased and diversity is your individual nostalgic towards monolingual communication and hobby documentation (Russian), with growing importance of English 3. Diversity will only survive if there’s 3. Preservation needs language nests and continuous support for its composite cultural distancing from dominant linguistic and cultural products pressure vs. growing competitive forces 4. Cultural identity is not the king, but clothes 4. Traditional cultures prioritize collective and tools that you choose to use. community, ethno-tribal, pagan and religious 5. Earn more money to volunteer & fund values, diversity of knowledge forms. English development of necessary local and market economy stress individualism, infrastructure, resources in local language, critical approach, results here and now. avoid excessive dedication to Wikimedia 5. Challenges traditional for Wikimedians, projects to avoid unpleasant social contributing in non-dominant languages in low- consequences of personal sacrifices and income countries burn-out Non-dominant language Wikipedias: Lessons from the "Russian Knot“@ Celtic Knot Conference 2020, July 9-10 w.wiki/VPH Overview from Oleg Wikipedias in the languages of Russia: Overview Celtic Knot Conference 2020 Online event 9-10 July 2020. Oleg Abarnikov Wikimedia RU, Wikipedians of North Caucasus User Group Wikipedia editions in the languages of Russia Speakers Cod Founde , 1000, 29.05.2020 Language family, group Articles 1000, # e d thousan % ds 1 630 2 Russian Slavic languages of the Indo-European family ru 2002.11 254000 99,8 3 34 Kipchak group of the Turkic languages of the Altai Bashkir ba 2005.08 52 164 1224 46,99 31 family Yiddish Germanic languages of the Indo-European family yi 2004.03 15 044 1762 15,61 80 Kipchak group of the Turkic languages of the Altai Tatar tt 2003.09 89 697 5427 14,56 83 family Buryat Mongolic languages of the Altai family bxr 2007.04 2169 283 11,36 100 Chechen Nakh languages of the Nakh-Daghestanian family ce 2005.03 254 325 1355 11,1 102 Yakut (Sakha) Yakut group of the Turkic languages of the Altai family sah 2008.05 12 296 450 8,43 119 Chuvash Oghur group of the Turkic languages of the Altai family cv 2004.11 43 047 1152 7,6 127 Vepsian Finno-Ugric languages of the Uralic family vep 2012.02 6493 3,53 6,87 134 Lezgi Lezgic languages of the Nakh-Daghestanian family lez 2012.03 4073 784 6,52 141 Ossetian Iranian languages of the Indo-European family os 2005.03 12 316 500 4,74 162 Kipchak group of the Turkic languages of the Altai Karachay-Balkar krc 2010.03 2047 305 4,5 168 family Eastern (Meadow) Mari languages of the Finno-Ugric languages of the mhr 2009.07 10 162 365 4,16 172 Mari Uralic family Mordvinic languages of the Finno-Ugric languages of Erzya myv 2008.06 6141 400 3,59 185 the Uralic family Karelian language of the Finno-Ugric languages of the Livvi-Karelian olo 2016.09 3316 25 3,44 190 Uralic family Kabardino- Northwest Caucasian family kbd 2011.03 1586 516 3,02 200 Cherkess Ingush Nakh languages of the Nakh-Daghestanian family inh 2018.04 1302 456 2,6 211 Kalmyk Mongolic languages of the Altai family xal 2006.03 2087 81 2,39 216 ud Udmurt Finno-Ugric languages of the Uralic family 2005.10 4878 324 2,23 219 m Komi-Zyrian Finno-Ugric languages of the Uralic family kv 2005.02 5343 161 2,19 220 Western (Hill) Mari languages of the Finno-Ugric languages of the mrj 2010.10 10 271 23 2,08 226 Mari Uralic family Tuvan Sayan languages of the Altai family tyv 2013.08 2505 289 1,93 229 Avar-Ando-Tsez languages of the Nakh-Daghestanian Avar av 2005.04 2422 715 1,92 230 family Crimean Tatar Turkic languages of the Altai family crh 2008.01 7294 484 1,9 231 Komi-Permyak Finno-Ugric languages of the Uralic family koi 2010.10 3452 63 1,26 258 Adyghe Northwest Caucasian