 Hello, my name is Rustam Nuriyov, on the 2nd of August I turn 60 years old, I have a degree in economics, and the previous 38 years of my career have been within the system of state statistics. This year I've retired from the civil service, now I am working on projects of an online encyclopedia in the languages of the peoples of Russia. I have been volunteering with the Wikimedia movement since 2005. Since January 2006, I have been an administrator of the Bashkir Wikipedia. Since 2015, I have been a member of the Wikimedians of Bashkartostan user group. The Bashkirs are a Kipchak Turkic ethnic group indigenous to Russia. They are concentrated in Bashkartostan, a republic of the Russian Federation and in the broader historical region of Bashkart, which spans both sides of the Ural Mountains, where Eastern Europe meets North Asia. Most Bashkirs speak the Bashkir language closely related to the Tatar and Kazakh languages, which belong to the Kipchak branch of the Turkic languages. They share historical and cultural affinities with the broader Turkic peoples. Bashkirs are mainly Sunni Muslims of the Hanafi Madhav, previously nomadic and fiercely independent. The Bashkirs gradually came under Russian rule beginning in the 16th century. They have since played a major role through the history of Russia, culminating in their autonomous status within the Russian Empire, Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia. The Bashkir Autonomous Republic was founded by Zaki Valedigan, Bashkir historian, Turkologist and leader of the Bashkir Revolutionary and Liberation Movement, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Honorary Doctor of the University of Manchester. 100 years ago, Zaki Valedigan bequeathed his people to remain neutral. We are not red. We are not white. We are Bashkirs. He also bequeathed to preserve his native language and religion. Wikipedia allows us to preserve and develop our native Bashkir language. The first article in the Bashkir Wikipedia was written on April 16, 2005. Today the project has over 63,000 articles containing 27 million words. Over the course of these 18 years, Bashkir Wikipedia articles were edited by more than 3,000 people. The most active of them are people of the older generation. These are mainly retired writers, journalists and teachers. We are proud that Katharine Marprez Bashkir Weki grannies at Wikimania 2019 in Stockholm. The audience applauded them then. Let's applaud them again. Weki grannies will be pleased. The development strategy of the Bashkir Wikipedia stands on three pillars. First, popular Wikipedia also needs popularization. Second, Wikipedians are rare. You need to search for them. Wikipedia should be a scientific encyclopedia. The first, popular Wikipedia also needs popularization. Friends, one shouldn't hope that a reader or a future editor will be able or willing to discover and master Wikipedia principles and policies. Society needs to be constantly explained and reminded about them. Therefore, we engage in regular outreach. We give lectures and presentations at forums and conferences. Weki conferences also attract public attention. In 2015, we held the first forum of Bashkir Wikimedians. It was time to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the Bashkir Wikipedia. The forum was held at Bashkir State University. 111 people took part in it. There were participants from Poland, Estonia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Israel and the Philippines, and Wikimedians of Bashkir, Udmer, Tatar, Sakha, Tiva, Leskin, Siberian Tatar, Russian Wikipedia. There were many teachers from schools of districts and cities of the Republic of Bashkartostan. We actively cooperate with the media. Every two-three months we publish press releases in Bashin forum, the principal news agency of Bashkartostan. Through them this information is distributed throughout the Republic. Articles are published in newspapers and magazines. Broadcasts on radio and television are initiated. There were over 100 of media mentions of Bashkir Wikipedia in these 18 years. What does popularization give us? It increases project awareness and recognition by society. This helps attract new and retain existing volunteers. Second, a dedicated Wikipedia is not a mass phenomenon. Volunteering is not about permanent engagement. Regular changes in the composition of participants is a natural process. Someone starting or ceasing to edit is not really noticeable for large projects with thousands of active volunteers. For small language projects, the arrival of one editor is a great joyous event and leaving is a major disaster. Therefore, we have to constantly look for and attract new volunteers. Waiting for them to join by themselves is not an option. Volunteers must be found, trained and motivated. Do we manage to find Wikimedians and how do we do it? We haven't come up with anything new. We are constantly on a lookout for best international practices and integrating them into our routine. We are trying to improve these methods and apply them more actively. We regularly hold Wiki meetings, trainings, seminars, conferences and contests. During the pandemic we started an online Wiki school. We warmly welcome each new participant. We award virtual medals and orders to active participants. Volunteers are very much motivated by third-party recognition and encouragement of their achievements. We participate and win various contests outside of Wikipedia. We also recommend individuals to be recognized by state and public awards of the Republic of Bashkartostan. We organize official awarding ceremonies. 30 of the most active editors were awarded letters of thanks, certificates of honor, orders and medals. 10 editors were awarded the highest award of the world, Karel Tai, Congress, Bashkart NGO. In the year of our coming of age, we have decided to establish a real medal of the Bashkart Wikipedia. This one is awarded to active volunteers who have made a significant contribution towards the development of the project. It is also awarded to partners who have provided significant scientific, organizational, informational and financial assistance to volunteers. A group of activists from the Bursyansky district formed their own district wiki club. They conduct introductory lectures and master classes for school children and adults. They use any district-level mass event to talk about the possibilities of Wikipedia. The district administration has adopted a decision mandating municipal institutions to support the development of the free encyclopedia. We hold thematic article drives and give valuable gifts to active participants. The largest competition was called Bashkart Ostan 100. Bashkart Ostan 100 is a big intellectual super wiki marathon for creating and improving Wikipedia articles about Bashkart Ostan, as well as uploading free images into commons. The super wiki marathon was created with the aim of popularizing the Bashkart language on Wikipedia, promoting Bashkart topics in other language sections and was organized in honor of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the agreement on independence between the government of Russia and the government of Bashkria. The intellectual super wiki marathon Bashkart Ostan 100 began on September 11, 2016 and ended on March 23, 2019. The marathon consisted of five stages of 100 days each, 92 editors of Bashkart, Bill Orison, Barry, Georgian, Greek, Lesgian, Luxembourg, Crimean Tatar, Mari, Russian, Tatar, Tuvan, Ursya, Ukrainian, Chechen, Azerbaijan, Armenian Wikipedia took part in the wiki marathon. 50 people wrote in Bashkart, 47 people wrote in other languages, including five people wrote in several languages. It resulted in creation of 5,462 articles, including 3,844 in Bashkart, 1,618 in other languages, as well as a clothing of 427 photos. The third direction, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and encyclopedia is a body of scientific knowledge. Any encyclopedia starts with a list of article titles, Bashkart Wikipedia adheres to a single list of mandatory and recommended articles, we select high quality scientific articles in other language sections and translate them into Bashkart. We actively use the content translation wiki translation workstation, and we would like to use this opportunity to express our sincere gratitude to its developers. The large volume of translated Wikipedia articles allowed Bashkart language inclusion into NLLB 200 unified artificial intelligence model. It helps Bashkart programmers to develop new applications. We are proud that Wikipedia content helped Bashkart to become part of global computational linguistics projects. We have also developed a Bashkart list of articles about Bashkart Ostan and the Bashkars. We recommend these articles for creation or translation as a part of C-Spring and Wikipedia Asian month contests. We are active in them annually from the very beginning. Thus, our small community of volunteers is engaged in the preservation and development of the Bashkart language. Bashkart Wikipedia is today the largest and most visited site with free content in the Bashkart language. We observe how society actively uses the content of the Bashkart Wikipedia. We are happy to see the fruits of our efforts to be in demand. However, it is likely that some of our volunteers will cease editing wiki media projects. Their concerns are related to the recent legislative changes in my country, thus I would request your understanding towards the birth of Ruiki project. This new online encyclopedia is sharing the ideals of free licensing of knowledge. It also contributes to the preservation and development of more than 100 languages of the indigenous peoples of Russia. This concludes my speech. Thanks for your attention. If you guys have questions, I can volunteer to translate. Excellent, thank you. Please go ahead. If you want, you can use the mic over there. Is this session being live streamed? If yes, we should probably use the mic. Thank you very much. I appreciate what you have done for the in Bashkart Wikipedia. So my name is Rima. I'm from Indonesia. One thing I want to ask is after viewing your presentation there, how do you keep the new volunteers to keep contributing in Wikipedia or other Wikimedia projects? Because sometimes in my experience, sometimes several of the participants, like in our trainings events, they come and they receive our training. But after that, it's hard to keep them to keep editing whether it is Wikipedia or Wikipedia like that. So I don't know whether this is just our culture. I would like to know your experience in keeping the new participants in those trainings to keep editing and contributing to Wikimedia projects. Thank you. Thank you very much. My name is Rima. I'm from Indonesia. Thank you for the presentation. The question is, how do you keep the new editors convinced to stay in the project? Because in my experience, we conduct trainings, people come, participate, then they don't continue to work. How do you keep the newcomers convinced to stay in the project? Volunteers are a natural process. If 3-4% of the students stay, it's a great number. You don't need to get involved in it. But we motivate them that thanks to Wikimedia, we are bringing the Basque language to the global informational space. The main question is, how do you keep the new editors convinced to stay in the project? Actually, it's a natural process. If 3-4% of the participants remain on the project, it's a good achievement. But in our experience, we really focus on the fact that this project helps us to promote our language and promote our language and culture and let the whole world know about us. That's why we really focus on that aspect. But again, it's kind of a natural process and kind of know it in advance that we will not be able to kind of keep everyone who has attended a session or two on editing or contributing. Any more questions? Please. You can use this one. Is this mic? Good morning, everyone. I'm obviously from Nigeria. While you were presenting, you mentioned about national medal. I believe that is from your government, government of the country. And if it is so, how did you get the government to get involved in your Wikipedia project and movement? The people voted very actively. And we made a national public medal from the name of the volunteers, from the name of the people by the most active volunteers and our partners, who help us in the organization, information and other material Thank you for the question. I was kind of expecting this question. So it's not a state medal. It's a community medal. Can I call it a community medal? So we have like, once we reach community consensus, it's based on a community consensus. If it's basically given to our partners, we have helped the project a lot or like very active contributors. It's purely based on community decision, basically. But the one that I have been awarded, the one I have here, is a state medal. But that's kind of separate what I have done myself, basically. Any more questions? The time is over, yeah? Thanks. I've brought some Bashkir sweets. Please enjoy. Thanks.