Wikimedia Armenia/Reports/2016-09

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2016
September

Castles challenge

At the 2016 Wikimedia Conference, held in Berlin earlier in 2016, representatives from Wikimedia Armenia and Wikimedia Spain began planning for a joint project. The initial conversation was focused on increasing Wikipedia content, so finally we decided to work on castles and fortifications of both countries, with the aim of improving the cultural and historical knowledge between the two countries and strengthen ties of communication between both Wikimedia communities.

We agreed to organize a September online contest with prizes for the top participants. The community in Armenia could win by editing articles on Spanish castles, and the one in Spain would do the same with Armenian castles. We worked together to create the contest pages, along with rules and a list of proposed articles.

A total of 283 articles were edited in 7 languages, of which 276 were new, by 21 editors—12 from Armenia and 9 from Spain.

After the contest, Armenian and Spanish organizers wrote a blogpost.

Sources:

• Blogpost about the contest
• Challenge page on meta

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Working with schools and universities

Since 2016 July Wikimedia Armenia has continued to involve more students to the Education program as well as to retain already active ones. WM AM Education program participants work on 3 wikimedia projects: Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikisource.

Workshops conducted within Wikipedia Education program:

• September 3 - workshop for the scouts of Armenian General Benevolent Union.
• September 20 - workshop for the students of Charentsavan school after Mesrop Mashtots

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  Scouts of Armenian General Benevolent Union at WM AM office
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  Workshop at Charentsavan high school after M. Mashtots, September 20, 2016

Saturday Workshops

Saturday Workshop, September 10, 2016

Every Saturday Wikimedia Armenia organizes open workshops edit-a-thons at the WM AM office where new editors are taught how to edit different wiki projects and the experienced editors participate in edit-a-thons dedicated to different themes. Anyone interested in wiki projects, Wikipedia, wiki editing and needing assistance, as well as wiki editors, who want to edit in pleasant atmosphere participate in these workshops. We have about 15-20 participants in each workshop. Among them there are also active wiki editors of hywiki, hywiktionary, hywikisource, Wikidata who help to conduct the workshops.