WIKIMEDIA ARMENIA ORGANIZES WINTER WIKI CAMP IN AGHVERAN
YEREVAN, January 13. / ARKA /. 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. 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. T he 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. -0-
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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