Wikigrannies
Sign in to savethumb|WikiGrannies User Group logo Wikigrannies (, ) is a group of Wikipedia authors and Wikimedians of elderly age, partly organized as a Wikimedia user group. As a user group, they originate from Bashkortostan, and tend to include participants and colleagues from other regions and countries.
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thumb|WikiGrannies User Group logo Wikigrannies (, ) is a group of Wikipedia authors and Wikimedians of elderly age, partly organized as a Wikimedia user group. As a user group, they originate from Bashkortostan, and tend to include participants and colleagues from other regions and countries.
== History == 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 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. Later they began to be called Wikigrannies.