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'''Wikigrannies''' ({{lang-ba|вики-өләсәйҙәр}}, {{lang-ru|вики-бабушки}}) is the group of [[wikipedian|wikipedia authors]] and [[wikimedian]]s of elderly age, partly organized as [[m:usergroup|Wikimedia user group]].<ref>{{in lang|ru}} http://www.encyclopedia.ru/news/enc/detail/79353/</ref> As user group, they originate from [[Bashkortostan]], and tend to include participants and colleagues from other regions and countries.
'''Wikigrannies''' ({{langx|ba|вики-өләсәйҙәр}}, {{langx|ru|вики-бабушки}}) is a group of [[wikipedian|Wikipedia authors]] and [[Wikimedian]]s of elderly age, partly organized as [[m:usergroup|a Wikimedia user group]].<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|title=На международной конференции франкоязычных университетов осветили тему развития Википедии |url=http://www.encyclopedia.ru/news/enc/detail/79353/ |language=ru |access-date=2023-08-18 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://resbash.ru/articles/obrazovanie/2022-02-21/ay-da-viki-babushki-2697153 | title=Ай да Вики-бабушки! }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/heute-plus/videos/wikipedia-russland-internet-enzykolpaedie-100.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024040828/https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/heute-plus/videos/wikipedia-russland-internet-enzykolpaedie-100.html | archive-date=2020-10-24 | title=Wikipedias schwerer Stand in Russland - ZDFheute }}</ref> As a user group, they originate from [[Bashkortostan]], and tend to include participants and colleagues from other regions and countries.


== History ==
== History ==
[[File:2016.02.47 WikiMeeting Ufa.jpg|thumb|In 2016 in [[Ufa]]]]
[[File:2016.02.47 WikiMeeting Ufa.jpg|thumb|In 2016 in [[Ufa]]]]
In 2015, Bashkir public figure [[Guzal Sitdykowa]], writer, poet and an active [[Wikipedian]], called for development of the [[Bashkir Wikipedia]] through her locally popular page at the social network [[VK (service)|VKontakte]]. She asked her readers to join activists Rustam Nuryev and Zufar Salikhov, who were actively developing Wikipedia in their native [[Bashkir language]]. After that, people of retirement age who had free time joined the project.<ref>[http://bash.bashgazet.ru/obshestvo/24122-bashorttar-ala.html Башҡорттар, АЛҒА!] {{Web archive|url=https://web.archive.org/20190703101410/http://bash.bashgazet.ru/obshestvo/24122-bashorttar-ala.html}} {{in lang|ba}}</ref> Later they began to be called Wikigrannies.
In 2015, Bashkir public figure [[Guzal Sitdykowa]], writer, poet and an active [[Wikipedian]], called for development of the [[Bashkir Wikipedia]] through her locally popular page at the social network [[VK (service)|VKontakte]]. She asked her readers to join activists Rustam Nuryev and Zufar Salikhov, who were actively developing Wikipedia in their native [[Bashkir language]]. After that, people of retirement age who had free time joined the project.<ref name="bashgazet">{{Cite news|title=Башҡорттар, АЛҒА! |url=https://bash.bashgazet.ru/obshestvo/24122-bashorttar-ala.html |access-date=2023-08-18 |newspaper=Башҡортостан гәзите (Bashkortostan) |publisher= Газета Башкортостан на башкирском языке. Архив материалов.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190703101410/http://bash.bashgazet.ru/obshestvo/24122-bashorttar-ala.html |archive-date=2019-07-03 |lang=ba }}</ref> Later they began to be called Wikigrannies.


The idea came in 2016 in the course of preparations for wiki-seminar "[[m:WikiUral|WikiUral]]" in [[Izhevsk]], [[Udmurtia]]<ref>{{in lang|udm}} https://udmdunne.ru/2016/09/izhkaryn-ortchoz-nyrysetӥez-ural-viki-seminar/</ref> The initiators were inspired by the experience of [[Buranovskiye Babushki]] (Buranovo Grannies), also from Udmurtia, that took 2nd place in [[Eurovision Song Contest 2012]] and had international success.
The idea came in 2016 in the course of preparations for the wiki-seminar "[[m:WikiUral|WikiUral]]" in [[Izhevsk]], [[Udmurtia]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 2016 |title=Ижкарын ортчоз нырысетӥез Урал вики-семинар — Удмурт дунне |url= https://udmdunne.ru/2016/09/izhkaryn-ortchoz-nyryset%D3%A5ez-ural-viki-seminar/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210716011348/https://udmdunne.ru/2016/09/izhkaryn-ortchoz-nyryset%d3%a5ez-ural-viki-seminar/ |archive-date=2021-07-16 |language=udm| access-date=2023-08-18 }}</ref> The initiators were inspired by the experience of [[Buranovskiye Babushki]] (Buranovo Grannies), also from Udmurtia, that took 2nd place in [[Eurovision Song Contest 2012]] and had international success.


The main reason for engaging elderly people in Wikipedia's language projects is that they are considered to be the strong holders of local culture such as [[Bashkirs|Bashkir]] culture. While younger people tend to operate in wider-scale cultures such as Russian and English. This produces fears of [[extinction]] of local cultures, so extra efforts are needed to preserve them, including maintenance of local Wikipedias.
The main reason for engaging elderly people in Wikipedia's language projects is that they are considered to be the strong holders of local culture such as [[Bashkirs|Bashkir]] culture. While younger people tend to operate in wider-scale cultures such as Russian and English. This produces fears of [[extinction]] of local cultures, so extra efforts are needed to preserve them, including maintenance of local Wikipedias.


Bashkir elderly wikipedians became to participate as a group in numerous international Wikipedia events and cultural events in Bashkortostan, branding themselves as "Wiki-Grannies". [[Guzal Sitdykowa]], Bashkir writer, poetess, publicist and translator, together with major [[Bashkir Wikipedia]] activist Zaytuna Nigamatyanova<!--Q46474812-->, played leading role in organizing them.<ref>{{in lang|ru}} https://web.archive.org/web/20220401060427/http://www.chaskor.ru/article/natsionalnye_entsiklopedii_46194</ref><ref>{{in lang|ru}} https://www.kp.ru/daily/27049/4115331/ — [[Komsomolskaya Pravda]]</ref> [[Wikimedia Foundation]]'s [[m:Wikigrannies User Group|Wikigrannies User Group]] was registered by them on 26 October 2019. Also in 2019 the project was awarded by [[Federal Agency for Ethnic Affairs (Russia)|Federal Agency for Ethnic Affairs]].<ref>[[n:ru:FAEA of Russia recognizes Wikipedia's important contribution]]{{unreliable source|date=August 2022}}</ref> Wikigrannies maintain collaboration with other Wikimedia groups such as [[m:WikiDonne|WikiDonne]] dedicated to women in Wikipedia in general. They have also got support from [[Farhad Fatkullin]], [[Wikimedian of the Year]] 2018 from the neighboring [[Tatarstan]], who maintains wiki-supporting programs in different Russian regions. [[Wikimedia Russia]] also provides several types of collaboration to Wikigrannies.
Bashkir elderly Wikipedians became to participate as a group in numerous international Wikipedia events and cultural events in Bashkortostan, branding themselves as "Wiki-Grannies". [[Guzal Sitdykowa]], Bashkir writer, poetess, publicist and translator, together with major [[Bashkir Wikipedia]] activist Zaytuna Nigamatyanova<!--Q46474812-->, played leading role in organizing them.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-04-01 |title=Национальные энциклопедии |url=http://www.chaskor.ru/article/natsionalnye_entsiklopedii_46194 |language=ru|access-date=2023-08-18 |website=natsionalnye_entsiklopedii|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220401060427/http://www.chaskor.ru/article/natsionalnye_entsiklopedii_46194 |archive-date=2022-04-01 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=2019-10-31 |title=Любой язык — целый космос |trans-title=Any language is a whole cosmos |url=https://www.kp.ru/daily/27049/4115331/ |access-date=2023-08-18 |newspaper= [[Komsomolskaya Pravda]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191031121033/https://www.kp.ru/daily/27049/4115331/ |archive-date=2019-10-31 }}</ref> [[Wikimedia Foundation]]'s [[m:Wikigrannies User Group|Wikigrannies User Group]] was registered by them on 26 October 2019. Also in 2019, the project was awarded by [[Federal Agency for Ethnic Affairs (Russia)|Federal Agency for Ethnic Affairs]].<ref>[[n:ru:FAEA of Russia recognizes Wikipedia's important contribution]]</ref> Wikigrannies maintain collaboration with other Wikimedia groups such as [[m:WikiDonne|WikiDonne]] dedicated to women in Wikipedia in general. They also received support from [[Farhad Fatkullin]], 2018 [[Wikimedian of the Year]] from neighboring [[Tatarstan]], who maintains wiki-supporting programs in different Russian regions. [[Wikimedia Russia]] also provides several types of collaboration to Wikigrannies.


Bashkir Wiki-Grannies displayed ability to produce large amount of Wiki work as many of them were previously school teachers, philologists, translators, etc., so they have enough qualification and experience for that type of work. As elderly people, they usually are at [[pension]] and have a lot of spare time for this.<ref>{{in lang|ru}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20190306194809/http://gosvopros.ru/non-job/antistress/wiki-p/ Как привлечь пенсионеров к написанию энциклопедии? Вики-бабушки шлют привет!] // [https://web.archive.org/web/20190114200026/http://gosvopros.ru/job/qualification/wiki-age/ Зачем и как привлекать пожилых к работе над «Википедией»?]</ref>
Bashkir Wiki-Grannies displayed ability to produce large amount of Wiki work as many of them were previously school teachers, philologists, translators, etc., so they have enough qualification and experience for that type of work. As elderly people, they usually are retired and have a lot of spare time for this.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-03-06 |title=Как привлечь пенсионеров к написанию энциклопедии? Вики-бабушки шлют привет! - ГосВопрос |url=http://gosvopros.ru/non-job/antistress/wiki-p/ |access-date=2023-08-18 |website=ГосВопрос gosvopros.ru|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306194809/http://gosvopros.ru/non-job/antistress/wiki-p/ |archive-date=2019-03-06 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-01-14 |title=Зачем и как привлекать пожилых к работе над «Википедией»? - ГосВопрос |url=http://gosvopros.ru/job/qualification/wiki-age/ |access-date=2023-08-18 |website=gosvopros.ru|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190114200026/http://gosvopros.ru/job/qualification/wiki-age/ |archive-date=2019-01-14 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://prufy.ru/news/society/87799-viki_babushki_bashkirii_podarili_100_tysyach_rubley_bf_izgelek/ | title="Вики-бабушки» Башкирии подарили 100 тысяч рублей БФ «Изгелек" | date=13 December 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://prufy.ru/news/spec/svobodnaya_ploshchadka/137539-bashkirskiy_vikipedist_vyskazalsya_o_proekte_ruviki_ty_za_kogo_rustam_bey_vot_moy_otvet_/ | title=Башкирский википедист о проекте «Рувики»: «Ты за кого, Рустам-бей? С какой организацией будешь сотрудничать?» | date=31 May 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bashinform.ru/news/social/2020-02-18/predstaviteli-bashkirii-udostoeny-rossiyskoy-premii-vikimedii-2100143 | title=Представители Башкирии удостоены российской премии Викимедии }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bashinform.ru/news/social/2023-04-16/bashkirskaya-vikipediya-otmechaet-sovershennoletie-3220107 | title=Башкирская Википедия отмечает «совершеннолетие» }}</ref><ref>https://www.business-gazeta.ru/article/391018</ref> Also, Wikigrannies sometimes actively participate in editing of neighboring [[Tatar Wikipedia]] as these languages are very close and often cross-used in native areas.


Bashkir Wiki-Grannies presented themselves and their work at a number of Wikimedia events in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Ukraine, Berlin, Cape Town, Stockholm, Belgrade.<ref>{{in lang|ba}} http://bash.bashgazet.ru/obshestvo/24122-bashorttar-ala.html</ref><ref>{{in lang|ru}} https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Вики-конференция_2016/Программа#Второй_день_(воскресенье,_2_октября_2016)</ref><ref>{{in lang|ru}} https://kazanfirst.ru/articles/455082</ref><ref>{{in lang|ru}} http://www.bashinform.ru/news/1366529-v-serbii-prezentovali-dvizhenie-vikibabushki-iz-bashkortostana/</ref><ref>{{in lang|ru}} https://www.idelreal.org/a/29806834.html — [[RFERL]]</ref> In 2019 at [[Wikimania]] conference in Stockholm, they were specially remarked by Wikimedia Foundation director [[Katherine Maher]] in her speech.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi6IlA7piFU&t=1h11m22s | title=Wikimania 2019: Closing Session | website=[[YouTube]] }}</ref>
Bashkir Wiki-Grannies presented themselves and their work at a number of Wikimedia events in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Ukraine, Berlin, Cape Town, Stockholm, Belgrade.<ref name="bashgazet" /><ref>{{in lang|ru}} [[:ru:Вики-конференция_2016/Программа#Второй_день_(воскресенье,_2_октября_2016)]]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Татарский раздел «Википедии»: споры вокруг «России» и всемирная слава башкирских бабушек KazanFirst |url=https://kazanfirst.ru/articles/455082 |access-date=2023-08-18 |website=kazanfirst.ru |date=25 December 2017 |language=ru}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=В Сербии презентовали движение «Викибабушки» из Башкортостана |url=https://www.bashinform.ru/news/culture/2019-10-15/v-serbii-prezentovali-dvizhenie-vikibabushki-iz-bashkortostana-2111582 |access-date=2023-08-18 |website=www.bashinform.ru |language=ru}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=2019-09-29 |title=Языковой активизм заставил нейронную сеть овладеть башкирским языком |url=https://www.idelreal.org/a/29806834.html |access-date=2023-08-18 |website=[[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty ]] |language=ru}}</ref> In 2019 at the [[Wikimania]] conference in Stockholm, they were specially recognized by Wikimedia Foundation executive director [[Katherine Maher]] in her speech.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi6IlA7piFU&t=1h11m22s | title=Wikimania 2019: Closing Session | website=[[YouTube]] | date=18 August 2019 }}</ref>


Since 2021, a small new group of "wiki-grannies" began to participate in [[w:alt:|newly created wikipedia]] in [[Altai language]].<ref>{{in lang|ru}} [[wmru:Вики-конференция 2022/Программа]]: Altai Wiki-grannies are presented at Wiki-Conference 2022 in Russia</ref>
Since 2021, a small new group of "wiki-grannies" began to participate in the [[w:alt:|newly created wikipedia]] in the [[Altai language]].<ref>{{in lang|ru}} [[wmru:Вики-конференция 2022/Программа]]: Altai Wiki-grannies are presented at Wiki-Conference 2022 in Russia</ref>

== See also ==
* [[m:Grants:IEG/Senior Citizens Write Wikipedia]]
* [https://diff.wikimedia.org/2015/01/12/czech-senior-citizens-learn-to-edit/ Senior citizens learn to edit Wikipedia in the Czech Republic] — Wikimedia Diff, 12 January 2015


== References ==
== References ==
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==External links==
*{{Official website|https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikigrannies_User_Group/en}}

{{Wikipedias in Turkic languages}}


[[Category:Wikimedia Foundation]]
[[Category:Wikimedia Foundation]]

Latest revision as of 03:49, 15 November 2024

WikiGrannies User Group logo

Wikigrannies (Bashkir: вики-өләсәйҙәр, Russian: вики-бабушки) is a group of Wikipedia authors and Wikimedians of elderly age, partly organized as a Wikimedia user group.[1][2][3] As a user group, they originate from Bashkortostan, and tend to include participants and colleagues from other regions and countries.

History

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In 2016 in Ufa

In 2015, Bashkir public figure Guzal Sitdykowa, writer, poet and an active Wikipedian, called for development of the Bashkir Wikipedia through her locally popular page at the social network VKontakte. She asked her readers to join activists Rustam Nuryev and Zufar Salikhov, who were actively developing Wikipedia in their native Bashkir language. After that, people of retirement age who had free time joined the project.[4] Later they began to be called Wikigrannies.

The idea came in 2016 in the course of preparations for the wiki-seminar "WikiUral" in Izhevsk, Udmurtia.[5] The initiators were inspired by the experience of Buranovskiye Babushki (Buranovo Grannies), also from Udmurtia, that took 2nd place in Eurovision Song Contest 2012 and had international success.

The main reason for engaging elderly people in Wikipedia's language projects is that they are considered to be the strong holders of local culture such as Bashkir culture. While younger people tend to operate in wider-scale cultures such as Russian and English. This produces fears of extinction of local cultures, so extra efforts are needed to preserve them, including maintenance of local Wikipedias.

Bashkir elderly Wikipedians became to participate as a group in numerous international Wikipedia events and cultural events in Bashkortostan, branding themselves as "Wiki-Grannies". Guzal Sitdykowa, Bashkir writer, poetess, publicist and translator, together with major Bashkir Wikipedia activist Zaytuna Nigamatyanova, played leading role in organizing them.[6][7] Wikimedia Foundation's Wikigrannies User Group was registered by them on 26 October 2019. Also in 2019, the project was awarded by Federal Agency for Ethnic Affairs.[8] Wikigrannies maintain collaboration with other Wikimedia groups such as WikiDonne dedicated to women in Wikipedia in general. They also received support from Farhad Fatkullin, 2018 Wikimedian of the Year from neighboring Tatarstan, who maintains wiki-supporting programs in different Russian regions. Wikimedia Russia also provides several types of collaboration to Wikigrannies.

Bashkir Wiki-Grannies displayed ability to produce large amount of Wiki work as many of them were previously school teachers, philologists, translators, etc., so they have enough qualification and experience for that type of work. As elderly people, they usually are retired and have a lot of spare time for this.[9][10][11][12][13][14][15] Also, Wikigrannies sometimes actively participate in editing of neighboring Tatar Wikipedia as these languages are very close and often cross-used in native areas.

Bashkir Wiki-Grannies presented themselves and their work at a number of Wikimedia events in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Ukraine, Berlin, Cape Town, Stockholm, Belgrade.[4][16][17][18][19] In 2019 at the Wikimania conference in Stockholm, they were specially recognized by Wikimedia Foundation executive director Katherine Maher in her speech.[20]

Since 2021, a small new group of "wiki-grannies" began to participate in the newly created wikipedia in the Altai language.[21]

See also

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References

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bashkir wikigrandmothers.
  1. ^ На международной конференции франкоязычных университетов осветили тему развития Википедии (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-08-18.
  2. ^ "Ай да Вики-бабушки!".
  3. ^ "Wikipedias schwerer Stand in Russland - ZDFheute". Archived from the original on 2020-10-24.
  4. ^ a b "Башҡорттар, АЛҒА!". Башҡортостан гәзите (Bashkortostan) (in Bashkir). Газета Башкортостан на башкирском языке. Архив материалов. Archived from the original on 2019-07-03. Retrieved 2023-08-18.
  5. ^ "Ижкарын ортчоз нырысетӥез Урал вики-семинар — Удмурт дунне" (in Udmurt). September 2016. Archived from the original on 2021-07-16. Retrieved 2023-08-18.
  6. ^ "Национальные энциклопедии". natsionalnye_entsiklopedii (in Russian). 2022-04-01. Archived from the original on 2022-04-01. Retrieved 2023-08-18.
  7. ^ "Любой язык — целый космос" [Any language is a whole cosmos]. Komsomolskaya Pravda. 2019-10-31. Archived from the original on 2019-10-31. Retrieved 2023-08-18.
  8. ^ n:ru:FAEA of Russia recognizes Wikipedia's important contribution
  9. ^ "Как привлечь пенсионеров к написанию энциклопедии? Вики-бабушки шлют привет! - ГосВопрос". ГосВопрос gosvopros.ru. 2019-03-06. Archived from the original on 2019-03-06. Retrieved 2023-08-18.
  10. ^ "Зачем и как привлекать пожилых к работе над «Википедией»? - ГосВопрос". gosvopros.ru. 2019-01-14. Archived from the original on 2019-01-14. Retrieved 2023-08-18.
  11. ^ ""Вики-бабушки» Башкирии подарили 100 тысяч рублей БФ «Изгелек"". 13 December 2019.
  12. ^ "Башкирский википедист о проекте «Рувики»: «Ты за кого, Рустам-бей? С какой организацией будешь сотрудничать?»". 31 May 2023.
  13. ^ "Представители Башкирии удостоены российской премии Викимедии".
  14. ^ "Башкирская Википедия отмечает «совершеннолетие»".
  15. ^ https://www.business-gazeta.ru/article/391018
  16. ^ (in Russian) ru:Вики-конференция_2016/Программа#Второй_день_(воскресенье,_2_октября_2016)
  17. ^ "Татарский раздел «Википедии»: споры вокруг «России» и всемирная слава башкирских бабушек KazanFirst". kazanfirst.ru (in Russian). 25 December 2017. Retrieved 2023-08-18.
  18. ^ "В Сербии презентовали движение «Викибабушки» из Башкортостана". www.bashinform.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-08-18.
  19. ^ "Языковой активизм заставил нейронную сеть овладеть башкирским языком". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (in Russian). 2019-09-29. Retrieved 2023-08-18.
  20. ^ "Wikimania 2019: Closing Session". YouTube. 18 August 2019.
  21. ^ (in Russian) wmru:Вики-конференция 2022/Программа: Altai Wiki-grannies are presented at Wiki-Conference 2022 in Russia
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