Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2024/Submissions/The Best Day of My Life "Arhavi WikiCamp"

ID : 28
Author(s):		Username(s): Onerhoca	Type of submission: lecture
		Affiliation: Wikimedia Türkiye	Theme(s): Education
Abstract: We observed intense interest and participation in the VikiCamp Arhavi 2024 Georgia-Turkey joint camp, which took place in Artvin/Arhavi between 17-18 May 2024, hosted by our school, Arhavi College. The partners of this participation came together in a local, national and international conjuncture. During the program, we hosted many valuable speakers, listened to inspiring presentations and deeply felt the sincerity and warmth of the wiki family. Thanks to the atmosphere created, negative prejudices initially held in minds quickly transformed into a mindset of "Be brave!" and embraced learning, practicing, and experiencing. These small steps have created brand new Wikipedia enthusiasts. Now we want to tell the world how this seed of curiosity sprouted, and this time we want to be brave about it.			Slides:
			Level of advancement: Basic
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How will this session be beneficial for the communities in the region of CEE? Through our presentation, the reflections of an event organized at this scale, perhaps for the first time in our country, will be introduced to the guests in all its aspects. By this way, holding such events will be encouraged, and through the transfer of experience, negative prejudices that existed before will be prevented. Thus the developing, integrative and friendly climate of the resulting atmosphere will be encouraged. We will share our previous experiences with all participants in a concrete way. In this way, the Wikipedia family will be both correctly recognized and correctly introduced. Thanks to the dialogue we will have established, a brand-new excitement will emerge and the seeds of this excitement will spread from country to country through the participants. We believe that everyone will be part of this excitement, and the synergy that has brought us this far will give all participants great courage.

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