Wikimedia Armenia/Reports/2023-04

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2023

April

Mrgavan Wikiclub’s Visit to Wikimedia Armenia Office

On April 21, the new members of the Mrgavan Wikiclub visited the Wikimedia Armenia office. They got acquainted with the working atmosphere of the organization. During a short introductory course, Wikimedia Armenia employees Mher Bekaryan and Artashes Tadevosyan introduced the participants to the activities, goals and events of Wikimedia Armenia. They talked about various educational projects of the wiki movement and their overall importance.

Event in Jermuk

On April 16, the Wikimedia Armenia team was invited to the city of Jermuk, where the "Towards Jermuk" interregional event was held. One of the special guests of the event was the President of WMAM Arshak Shahenyan. He spoke about the active involvement of the youth in wiki movement, dissemination of free knowledge, and development of Wikipedia. Davit Sargsyan, coordinator of WMAM events, was included in the jury for selecting the best youth programs. More than 300 young people from different regions of Armenia participated in the event. The WMAM team also visited the office of the Jermuk Youth Center which was the organizer of the "Towards Jermuk" interregional event and learned about the possibilities of creating and operating a WikiClub there.

CEE Spring 2023

In April, Armenian Wikipedia editors actively joined the edit-a-thon of creating articles about Central and Eastern European countries within the framework of the CEE Spring 2023 competition. During the first 40 days of the competition, starting from March 21, 28 participants of the Armenian Wikipedia created 234 articles from the list provided on 23 topics covering 29 countries.

Training for Two Edit-a-thons

In April and early May, Wikimedia Armenia started two edit-a-thons, in the preparatory phase of which offline and online courses were organized for those who want to participate in the competitions of "Financial Economic Month 2023" from April 28 and "Presence of Museums in Wikipedia 2023" from May 3, but are not acquainted with Wikipedia editing tools.

110 participants with no experience in editing Wikipedia responded to the announcement for the Wikipedia training course for "Financial Economic Month 2023" annual competition.

Thirty of them attended the course that was launched on April 3. The course was held in 4 groups: 2 online and 2 in person (at the organization's office). New participants were introduced in detail to the five pillars of Wikipedia, the basic rules and tools for editing, the nuances of working in their sandbox and creating an article, the rules for registering and participating in the competition. Some of the participants started creating articles from April 28 within the framework of the "Financial Economic Month 2023" contest.

Fifteen people took part in the online course for the "Presence of Museums in Wikipedia 2023" edit-a-thon and 10 participants joined the course in person.

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences

Wikimedia Armenia organized training courses for the employees of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia in March and April, in order to create content about archaeological monuments, ancient sites, excavations and findings in the Armenian Wikipedia. Ten employees of the institute participated in the training courses. During the course, in addition to acquiring the skills to create an article in Wikipedia, the participants also learned how to upload photos to WikiCommons and work in WikiData. Information obtained during the excavations has been added to Wikidata, and photos of the excavating archaeologist uploaded to WikiCommons cover articles on archaeological topics at most.

Photos uploaded during the training course

Cooperation with the Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences

Wikimedia Armenia has resumed cooperation with the Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences. The library has started adding data to the new database-website dedicated to Armenian translators. The purpose of the cooperation is to create pages for all Armenian translators on the website of the Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences, to create articles about them on Armenian Wikipedia and add citations from the Library's website to Wikipedia and vice versa. Several researchers from the Library with the help of Wikimedia Armenia staff learned Wikipedia editing tools. Difficulties related to citations from one source to another were eliminated by joint forces. Cooperation is planned to be continuous.

Wikiclubs’ report April 2023

As of April 30, 111 members are registered in 6 currently active Wikiclubs (Goris, Ddmashen, Lernapat, Koghb, Hatsik, and Stepanakert).

In April 2023, members of Wikiclubs continued to write articles within the framework of “A Walk through the Continents” project during which they translated articles from other language Wikipedias and created articles on Armenian Wikipedia. Each decade of the month was dedicated to a continent. Within the framework of this project, in April, a total of 30 Wikiclub members created 104 new articles with a volume of 1,373,300 bytes. Overall, the project lasted two months and as a result 208 new articles with a volume of 2,523,730 bytes were created within its framework.

Members of Wikiclubs participated in the CEE Spring 2023 competition of Central and Eastern European countries, during which they created new articles.

Only in April, 47 out of 111 members of Wikiclubs edited on Wikipedia. In total, they created 211 articles and made 1199 edits. Contribution by volume: 2,616,422 bytes.

Fourteen of the Wikiclub members edited on Wikisource, where they made a total of 230 edits, creating 57 pages and proofreading 80 pages. Their contributions by volume: 171,825 bytes.