Is there any interest in adding flags of Russian regions?

[carbon-starlight]

Are there plans to add flags of Russian Federation' subdivisions (republics, administrative regions, autonomous districts, etc.)?

List of .svg flags (incomplete):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country_subdivision_flags_in_Europe#Russia

ISO region codes:
https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:RU

Another (more readable) source of region codes (Russian Wikipedia):
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:RU

I composed codes and flag URLs of first 5 republics and 5 administrative regions as they are formatted in SOURCES file. If there will be interest in addition, I will do the rest. All files are public domain.

RU-AD    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Adygea.svg
RU-BA    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Bashkortostan.svg
RU-BU    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Buryatia.svg
RU-DA    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Dagestan.svg
RU-IN    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Ingushetia.svg
RU-AMU    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Amur_Oblast.svg
RU-ARK    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Arkhangelsk_Oblast.svg
RU-AST    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Astrakhan_Oblast.svg
RU-BEL    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Belgorod_Oblast.svg
RU-BRY    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Bryansk_Oblast.svg

[behdad]

I don't see why not. Thanks.

[carbon-starlight]

I wrote a full list of regions and checked each one of them for a license. The list is uploaded here, in this "collection of drafts" text file under section BY REGION: https://github.com/carbon-starlight/flags-misc/blob/main/flags.txt.

While most flags were public domain, 4 of them (as noted in the file) had a CC BY-SA license. Should I try to contact the artists and ask them for a public domain release or try to draw them from scratch?

Here I formatted an ISO list of regions as a .tsv following files of other countries as a template: https://github.com/carbon-starlight/flags-misc/blob/main/iso-3166-2-ru.tsv

One difference here is presence of multiple romanisations, hence one ISO code may be repeated several times for different versions of English name. Should I remove these entries?

What other files should I be working on?

[behdad]

I wrote a full list of regions and checked each one of them for a license. The list is uploaded here, in this "collection of drafts" text file under section BY REGION: https://github.com/carbon-starlight/flags-misc/blob/main/flags.txt.

Thanks.

While most flags were public domain, 4 of them (as noted in the file) had a CC BY-SA license. Should I try to contact the artists and ask them for a public domain release...?

That would be ideal.

Here I formatted an ISO list of regions as a .tsv following files of other countries as a template: https://github.com/carbon-starlight/flags-misc/blob/main/iso-3166-2-ru.tsv

One difference here is presence of multiple romanisations, hence one ISO code may be repeated several times for different versions of English name. Should I remove these entries?

I haven't looked into this repo since its inception in 2014, so I don't know what needs to be done exactly. Maybe @shervinafshar or @behnam know.

[shervinafshar]

Thanks for preparing to contribute these.

One difference here is presence of multiple romanisations, hence one ISO code may be repeated several times for different versions of English name. Should I remove these entries?

I think you'd want your region file TSV to have unique values for ISO code keys. Variation of romanization where needed could be handled by aliasing mechanism we have here.

If you attempt to run all the scripts locally with your data, any such issues would surface.

[carbon-starlight]

I decided to remove the GOST 1983 = UN V/18 1987 variant: it was more recent than BGN/PCGN 1947 one, but it had bizarre transliteration choices like j as й and untypeable non-ASCII letters such as š.

To the re-licensing part: currently I am awaiting an E-Mail response from one of BY-SA flags authors; an author of other 2 flags (1, 2), Fibonacci, seems to abandon their talk page (one inquiry specifically about re-licensing one their flag to CC0 there remains unanswered for 4 years) and I can not find their E-Mail anywhere; and the author of the last one does not seem to have their contact info available. Ofc I do not know much about Wikipedia and direct messaging there, so any help in reaching them would be appreciated.

[FibonacciPrower]

Hey, Fibonacci here.
I could re-license my own files as public domain, but of course I cannot do the same with other users' contributions to them.

[carbon-starlight]

Wow! I did not even realize these files have such a rich edit history. I guess I have nothing left except to try to contact each contributor.

[carbon-starlight]

Lzhl agreed to transfer the flag into public domain.

Hence only one problematic flag remains: one of Altai Krai. I will try to contact Averin one more time, but if it proves unsuccessful, I will probably just draw it myself.