WINTER WIKI CAMP IN AGHVERAN

13-01-2015 16:44:58 | | Science and Technology

The participants of Winter Wiki Camp boosted the Armenian Wikipedia
from the 42nd to the 41st place in global ranking On 7-11 January,
Wikimedia Armenia Scientific-Educational NGO organized a Winter
Wiki Camp in the “Voske Getak” holiday home in Aghveran for young
people of 14-20. The leading telecommunications operator in Armenia
VivaCell-MTS supported the organization of the camp by providing
high-quality internet connection.

On January 10, the participants of Winter Wiki Camp boosted the
Armenian Wikipedia from the 42nd to the 41st place in global ranking.

Wikipedia is a multilingual encyclopedia with free content that is
created by the users of the Wikipedia website in free editing format.

Wikipedia and its sister projects are among the top five of the
websites which offer free content.

Millions of people around the world use Wikipedia every day; hundreds
of thousands of people from every corner of the world are volunteer
editors of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is the best platform for creating
free high-quality educational materials and presenting one’s country
in all its diversity to the rest of the world. This is the reason why
using and adding materials to Wikipedia has become an important tool
for spreading the knowledge of our national identity and preserving
our mother tongue.

Wikipedia and Wiki projects are a mandatory part of the school
and university curriculum in a number of developed countries. As
this attitude has not been formed in Armenia yet, Wikimedia Armenia
Scientific-Educational NGO organizes various Wiki events which are
aimed at spreading the culture of creating high-quality free content
by widening the army of Wikipedia editors, teaching Wikipedia tools
and enrooting the Wiki ideas among the schoolchildren.

In 2014 Wikipedia Armenia organized a Wiki camp in Vanadzor which
surpassed all Wiki projects with its effectiveness and was recognized
as the best Wikimedia project in the annual Wikimania conference held
in London.

In 2015 Wikipedia Armenia plans to organize 4 Wiki camps, two of
which in international format.

Participants of the Winter Wiki camp 2015 were schoolchildren of
14-20. The participation fee was provided by their parents and active
Wikipedia editors. During the camp the young people added materials
to the Wiktionary, Wikidata, Wikipedia, learned Armenian songs and
took part in intellectual games.

– Science and Technology News from Armenia and Diaspora – Noyan Tapan –
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From: Baghdasarian