Wikimedia Armenia/Reports/2018-09

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September

Workshop in Rind village

On August 7, Wikimedia Armenia employees Dato Abuladze and Mher Bekaryan, as well as the Chair of WMAM Board Susanna Mkrtchyan, were hosted at Rind Secondary School, where a meeting was organized with the school teachers. The attendees got acquainted with two Wikimedia Armenian projects: Teacher Training and WikiCamps.

Western-Armenian online Edit-a-thon

The first Western-Armenian online edit-a-thon took place in mid-September (September 14-15, 2018) and was an immediate success in terms of active participation of experienced and new editors of Western-Armenian Wikipedia.

The two day online event brought together over 19 editors from Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, France, and Armenia in a round-the-day pursuit of creating new Western-Armenian Wikipedia entries and improving the already existing ones.

The edit-a-thon focused on the two following topics:

Armenian traditional costumes
Cuisine (Armenian and international)

In all, the edit-a-thon produced 64 new articles and 64 improved ones.

This first edit-a-thon generated a great excitement in the Western Armenian Wikipedia community and was an opportunity for the editors to work as a team and unite their efforts in a specific goal within a specific time period. It is planned to organize another edit-a-thon in October, 2018.

Editors of Aleppo
Editors of Aleppo
Editors of Aleppo

Community weekend

On September 28-30, Wikimedia Armenia organized a community edit-a-thon at Aghveran Park Resort. Active editors of Armenian Wikipedia participated in the event. The participants worked on the vital articles from “I create a vital article” campaign article list, students of Medical University worked on important articles of medicine. In total, 43 editors took part in the event. Wikimedia Armenia will continue its series of community events, contributing to the enrichment of the Armenian language on Wikipedia projects.

	Community Weekend (September 28 -30)
	Number of participants	Wikipedia
participants	38
created/improved articles/entries		46
edits		1067
bytes (net sum)		1 576 088

Photography talks at Wikimedia Armenia office

On October 5, Wikimedia Armenia invited Vahe Budumian, RA Deputy Minister of Culture, to lead the workshop on “Photograph as a Documentary Tool”. Vahe Budumyan was unable to attend the workshop which instead was led by Mher Bekaryan and Gayane Vardanyan. The participants were presented the quality and legal requirements of images used on Wikimedia projects, the copyright terms and usage. Using examples, participants were presented how to upload photos to Wikimedia Commons and fill in the required details. During the two hour session, the speakers answered numerous questions of the participants. Participants were especially interested in how the quality is ensured in Wikipedia, who was the final person approving the article. Mher Bekaryan presented the whole process of Wikipedia article creation and made sure everyone understood that there was no final approval in Wikipedia and that everyone can contribute whenever new information was revealed.

Submissions in the Newsletters

In September Wikimedia Armenia activities were represented in 2 Newsletters. We had submissions in GLAM Newsletter and in Education Newsletter. In the GLAM Newsletter we have presented the WikiData edit-a-thon held at Ara Sargsyan & Hakob Kojoyan Museum as well as the exhibition at the Metropolitem Art Museum dedicated to Armenia, "Wiki Loves Yerevan" edit-a-thon organized in the WikiClubs and the collaboration with Erebuni Historical and Archaeological Museum-Reserve within Community Weekend. The article in the Education Newsletter tells about the literary events organized in the WikiClubs.

WikiClubs statistics

	Community population (1)	Active users (2)	Active users index (3)	New users	New users index (4)	Female/male ratio	Bytes NET sum (5)	Bytes index (6)
Alaverdi WikiClub*	13100	29	0.221%	6	0.046%	35/13	653878	22547.5
Arevatsag WikiClub	821	10	1.218%	0	0.000%	56/47	59583	5958.3
Gyumri WikiClub* (Khrimyan)	121976	3	0.002%	1	0.001%	17/18	122137	40712.3
Gyumri WikiClub* (KASA)	121976	3	0.002%	0	0.000%	5/7	38764	12921.3
Goris WikiClub*	20300	7	0.034%	4	0.020%	25/4	224041	32005.9
Ddmashen WikiClub	2806	19	0.677%	3	0.107%	35/31	1108670	58351.1
Yeghvard WikiGroup	11900	6	0.050%	0	0.000%	18/3	1540209	256701.5
Lernapat WikiClub	1661	26	1.565%	0	0.000%	119/115	2680303	103088.6
Koghb WikiClub	4530	16	0.353%	4	0.088%	36/13	366884	22930.3
Hatsik WikiClub	1044	13	1.245%	2	0.192%	19/6	480793	47526.1
Mrgavan WikiClub	1606	10	0.623%	0	0.000%	30/23	501660	50166.0
Spitak WikiClub*	13100	33	0.252%	20	0.153%	25/23	359460	10892.7
Stepanakert WikiClub*	55309	15	0.027%	8	0.014%	155/56	229765	15317.7
Vanashen WikiClub	2364	18	0.000%	0	0.000%	37/7	351436	19524.2
Vardenik WikiClub	9880	37	0.374%	9	0.091%	40/21	487947	13187.8
Togh WikiClub	700	18	2.571%	0	0.000%	43/27	142150	7897.2
Karvachar WikiClub	500	27	5.400%	8	1.600%	46/35	617839	22882.9
NET sum	370473	290	14.618%	65	2.311%		9965519	34363.9

General statistics of the Education program (7)		316					17590488
How many % of the Education program participants are comprised from Wikiclubbers		91.77%					56.65%

1 - Permanent population according to the population census (RA - 2011, NKR -2015)։
2 - Users who has done 1 edit during the month.
3 - Active users/population ratio expressed in %.
4 - New users/population ratio expressed in %.
5 - NET sum bytes added in Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikisource.
6 - NET sum bytes/active users ratio.
7 - Includes also Education program other users.
* - WikiClub established in a city.

Saturday workshops

Every Saturday Wikimedia Armenia organizes open workshops-edit-a-thons at the WMAM office where new editors are taught how to edit different wiki projects. 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-edit-a-thons.

	Saturday workshops
	September 1	September 8	September 15	September 22	September 29
participants	19	29	14	16	14
created/improved articles	16	6	5	10	4
edits	111	25	66	140	11
bytes (net sum)	74301	24137	60627	63876	14924

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This month in numbers


0	13048	3925	131	75
articles recorded for the Spoken Wikipedia project	pages digitized for the Digitization project	words pronounced for the Wiktionary project	vital articles improved for the I create a vital article campaign	new editors involved in all projects