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2021

October

A Walk Around the World: Africa

The second stage of “A Walk Around the World” edit-a-thon was organized in October. This stage was dedicated to Africa. During this stage, the participants have created articles on the cities of different countries located in Africa.

Twenty-five participants took part in the second stage of the project. Altogether they created articles on Armenian Wikipedia about cities located in 23 countries. In total, 121 articles about different cities were created. They were mostly translated from English and Russian.

Not only Wikiclub members but also different wiki editors who were greatly interested in the topic joined the project and actively created articles from the very first day.

Articles created during the second stage of the project added 1,007,781 bytes in total to Armenian Wikipedia.

Awards ceremony of “Wiki Campaign on Armenian Topics”

External images

On the award ceremony

From Wikimedia Armenia Facebook page,

On October 8, the results of the edit-a-thon organized by the "Internet Society of Armenia" and "Wikimedia Armenia" scientific-educational non-governmental organizations within the framework of the events dedicated to the 5th anniversary of the ".հայ" domain were summarized.

The event took place in the conference hall of the "Holiday Inn" hotel. Representatives of organizations, winners, and other interested people took part in the event.

Cash prizes were awarded to the top three editors who created quality articles, the authors of the top three articles, the best wiki trainer who taught Wikipedia during the three months of the competition, and then helped the new participants to edit and publish the articles.

The award ceremony was organized by the "Internet Society of Armenia" non-governmental organization, which provided certificates of participation, small gifts, and gift cards in the amount of 50 to 100 thousand drams.

During the competition, more than 40 participants wrote 722 articles about the history of Armenia, monuments, settlements, and people. The speakers positively assessed the results of the competition, expressed hope that it will become a tradition and it will be continuous.

Education around the World

This month within our Summer Wikipedia training course which started in July an edit-a-thon was held called “Education around the World” in order to motivate the participants. The aim of the edit-a-thon was to develop educational topics on Armenian Wikipedia with the help of Wikipedia training’s participants as well as teachers from the Wikimedia community and other editors.

The edit-a thon was launched on October 4 and lasted till October 12. Seventeen participants registered for the edit-a-thon. Twenty-three articles have been created (not including the improvements to various articles).

Preparation for CEE Online Meeting 2021

On November 5-7, the CEE Online Meeting 2021 was planned to be organized and Wikimedia Armenia decided to join the meeting to present Wikipedia courses for different target groups. The Wikimedia Armenia staff chose a 45-minute lecture as the format of their speech to provide a more detailed and comprehensive overview of Wikipedia training courses.

It was planned that each speaker would present the different aspects of Wikipedia courses: background, target groups, extension to other projects, comparative analysis of best practices and failures of different years’ courses, the advantages and disadvantages of Covid-19 changes. After distributing the topics among the speakers, each speaker began to work on a meaningful presentation of their topic.

According to the CEE online meeting guide, it was possible to present the speech in a pre-recorded version. It was decided to make a pre-recorded video by Wikimedia Armenia.

Wikiclubs' report

In October, the Wikiclub members actively participated in "A Walk around the World" project, during which they created articles about the cities of Africa, the club members also participated in the "Education around the World" project. During the month, the club members were active in other projects, as well and they have organized and carried out numerous intra-club events.

Lernapat Wikiclub held an edit-a-thon dedicated to Teacher’s Day on October 5. On October 8, a game-competition was held in the club, during which the participants corrected the mistakes in different articles of the Armenian Wikipedia.

Alaverdi Wikiclub had a video meeting with members of the Charentsavan wiki group. They talked about the importance of editing Wikipedia, the Wikiclub and its activities were introduced, and as a summary, participants played an interesting wiki game. At the end of the video meeting, teams were formed to guide the new members of the club as mentors within the framework of the "Wikifriend 2" project, to teach newcomers to edit. During the month, the mentors worked intensively with beginners, helping them to take their first steps in the wiki world. At the beginning of the month, the three best articles of the previous month were selected in Alaverdi Wikiclub, which are: Vermiphobia, Flag of New Mexico, Charles Macintosh.

The Goris Wikiclub members continued to write articles on the Armenian Wikipedia, also, they had two meetings with students from other schools to whom they introduced Wikipedia and Wikiclubs.

The Stepanakert Wikiclub members started improving the articles about Artsakh this month. During the month the articles about Hadrut, Aygestan, Sarinshen, and Vank village of Hadrut region, Garnakar and Chldran were improved.

The Wikiclubs were also active on Wikisource during the month. New members have joined the Wikiclubs this month, four of whom continue their work on Wikisource.

Wikiclubs	Bytes+ (Wikipedia)	Bytes- (Wikipedia)	Edits (Wikipedia)	Articles	Bytes+ (Wikisource)	Bytes- (Wikisource)	Edits	Created	Proofread	Confirmed
Alaverdi Wikiclub	231623	-10237	154	22	0	0	0	0	0	0
Arevstsag Wikiclub	49994	-563	105	3	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gyumri (Khrimyan Hayrik 46)	1168	-184	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Goris Wikiclub	205532	-7095	191	19	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ddmashen Wikiclub	302216	-31385	131	24	165196	-1253	119	51	74	44
Lernapat Wikiclub	1327099	-110607	954	128	20665	-1156	11	6	7	0
Kogh Wikiclub	41282	-241	8	7	53465	-3726	29	13	0	27
Hatsik Wikiclub	337403	-2088	102	35	0	0	0	0	0	0
Stepanakert Wikiclub	192655	-508	53	17	0	0	0	0	0	0
Karvachar Wikiclub	152237	-199	32	17	0	0	0	0	0	0
Archis Wikiclub	42101	-4	21	5	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gandzakar Wikiclub	41865	0	36	8	0	0	0	0	0	0
Verin Karmiraghbyur Wikiclub	174378	-128	46	11	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kirants Wikiclub	41141	-177	36	5	263012	-910	108	89	106	0
TOTAL	3141296	-163416	1884	301	502938	-7045	269	159	187	71