Wikimedia Armenia/Reports/2021-01

2021
January

Wikipedia's 20th birthday

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On 15 June 2021, Armenian wiki community celebrated the 20th anniversary of Wikipedia. Because of COVID-19 pandemic this annual event was celebrated online this year.

A month before the birthday, Wikimedia Armenia had organised an edit-a-thon on creation of gift-articles. The idea was to create 20 articles as a gift to Wikipedia’s 20th anniversary. Within the frameworks of the edit-a-thon each participant aimed at creating 20 articles (each article up to 10.000 bytes) in a month.

Overall, 64 participants created 671 articles; 23 out of 64 participants created 20 and more articles.

In Armenian Wiki community the Wikipedia birthday has traditionally been a day to summarize different Wiki programs, to honor the remarkable community members, and to give prizes.

The journey of 20 long years of Wikipedia was presented and summarised with an interesting presentation. After telling the story of Wikipedia, we presented the most remarkable Wiki projects of the previous year, the winners of those projects, competitions and edit-a-thons.

Editors stood out for their contributions (amount of articles, bytes of contributions), activity shown in community and those with the best results were also presented during the event.

Wikiclubs' report

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In January the Wikiclubs kept working with the same enthusiasm. Clubs worked both online and offline. During the month, the participants worked on Wikipedia, Wikisource and other wiki projects. Various events were held inside the clubs.

On 28 January 2021, a meeting dedicated to famous Armenian actor Vahram Papazian’s life and career was organised in the frames of the event called “Meeting the Art” by Karvachar Wikiclub. The topic was presented by one of the editors of the Wikiclub.

On 15 January, the 20th anniversary of Wikipedia was celebrated in Lernapat Wikiclub. The results of the previous year were summarized, the names of the Wikiclub editors with the best results in 2020 were announced, “An article per week” project for the Wikiclub was summarised. In 2020 during this project almost 10 participants created an article per week.

During the month the members of Goris Wikiclub had a video call with the students in their senior year of 189 school in Yerevan. The students learned about the Wiki projects.

Many club members participated in the “20 articles on Wikipedia’s 20th birthday” project and created a lot of articles.

In January, wikiclubs have contributed 78,200 bytes to Wikisource․ With 6,133 edits on Wikipedia 790 articles were created, in general 9,607,845 bytes.

In January 14 newcomers joined the Wikiclubs.

Wikiclubs' statistics

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Wikiclubs Participants Community population Bytes+ (Wikipedia) Articles Bytes+ (Wiktionary) Articles Bytes+ (Wikisource) Created Proofread Confirmed
Alaverdi Wikiclub 70 13000 1157617 101 5881 10 105551 31 1 36
Arevstsag Wikiclub 66 960 576281 62 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gyumri (Khrimyan Hayrik 46) 33 121976 121451 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
Goris Wikiclub 38 20300 883331 124 2 0 0 0 0 0
Ddmashen Wikiclub 25 2876 605484 46 0 0 278225 99 172 21
Lernapat Wikiclub 101 2279 2794086 187 0 0 261751 55 53 19
Kogh Wikiclub 36 5300 150556 20 7351 15 69694 19 0 66
Hatsik Wikiclub 17 1044 888706 67 0 0 0 0 0 0
Spitak Wikiclub 58 13000 517799 23 0 0 50005 23 29 0
Stepanakert Wikiclub 23 55200 105863 9 0 0 0 0 0 0
Karvachar Wikiclub 27 500 795063 79 0 0 0 0 0 0
Archis Wikiclub 11 1109 220471 24 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gosh Wikiclub 14 1218 8690 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Noyemberyan Wikiclub (high school) 16 5000 169170 8 0 0 0 0 0 0
Verin Karmiraghbyur Wikiclub 8 1837 395962 22 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kirants Wikiclub 12 298 30096 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mrgavan Wikiclub 61 1725 66573 5 0 0 4750 1 1 0
Total 812 382051 9607836 790 18707 32 772296 229 257 142