Wikimedia Armenia/Reports/2021-12

2021
December

A Walk Around the World։ Europe․ Summarizing the Project edit

The fourth and final stage of the “Walk Around the World” project was implemented in December. This stage was dedicated to the cities and towns of Europe. In total, fifteen people took part in the final project creating 80 articles on the cities of different countries of Europe.

Along with this stage, the results of the whole project were summarized. The project kicked off in September and each month was dedicated to the cities and towns of the countries located in different continents. Each stage was accepted with different levels of interest considering the participation rate.

As a result of the project, 365 articles were created about different cities and towns of the world. In total, 41 people participated in the four stages of the project adding 3,141,199 bytes to Armenian Wikipedia.

Extraordinary General Assembly 2021 edit

On December 2-3, 2021 the Extraordinary General Assembly of Wikimedia Armenia was organized. Due to COVID-19, the General Assembly was held online. Fourteen days before the Assembly the members of the organization were notified and were given the opportunity to nominate themselves as members of the Board, the Chair and the Secretary of the General Assembly, and members of the Counting Committee.

In order to nominate, to ask questions, and to open discussion a special page was created on the Meta-Wiki page where each member could nominate themselves, raise questions and discuss issues, as well as become familiar with the schedule of the whole General Assembly. We used all possible social media platforms for notifying the members about the Extraordinary General Assembly: Facebook, Instagram, the website of the organization, Meta-Wiki page, Telegram. Besides this, we sent notifications to the members about the whole process and voting via email.

A day before the General Assembly on December 1, a video call was organized during which the candidates introduced themselves and the participants asked questions. Per our request, the Vice-Chair of the Affiliations Committee and a representative of the Wikimedia Foundation also participated in the video call. The participants of the meeting asked questions about the ongoing situation of Wikimedia Armenia.

On December 2-3, the members of the organization participated in the Extraordinary General Assembly by voting via the Google forms specially created for the two stages of the Assembly. On the first day, the members voted for the agenda, the Chair and the Secretary of the General Assembly, and the Counting Committee. On the second day, they voted for the members of the Board. As a result, the new Board consisting of six members was formed.

WikiClubs' report edit

 
 

In December, the Wikiclubs actively participated in various projects and were active on wiki platforms. In the last month of the year, the clubs held intra-club events, as well as participated in other projects.

Lernapat Wikiclub members continued cooperation with Lernapat secondary school․ In the framework of Wikiclassroom, fifth graders improved the Circle and Disk (mathematics) articles, and seventh graders improved the article about Friction.

On December 10, Lernapat Wikiclub launched an edit-a-thon dedicated to the New Year and Christmas, within the framework of which the club members created fifteen articles dedicated to the holidays.

Hatsik Wikiclub members have been involved in various projects over the month and have organized many workshops, during which they have learned to work more skillfully by using different wiki tools.

The Alaverdi Wikiclub chose the best articles of the last month: the best articles of November were: Hypochondriasis, Iceberg theory, and Belle.

On the occasion of the International Volunteer Day, the Alaverdi club members had a video meeting with the head of the Lori branch of the "Children of Regions" (MEM) social non-governmental organization. The club members have made a unique watch, on which the important values of the club are summarized.

The club members continued to create interesting and important articles. The Crete article was recognized as the “Article of the Week". The club members have recently written about singers of Armenian origin who are well known on Instagram.

On December 16, Stepanakert Wikiclubs hosted Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Artsakh Gegham Stepanyan, with whom we spoke about ways to professionally improve articles about Artsakh. An article about him was created by one of the club members.

The Wikiclubs had 3 new participants during the month. They showed good results during the month creating more than 248 articles.



Wikiclubs Bytes+ (Wikipedia) Bytes- (Wikipedia) Edits (Wikipedia) Articles Bytes+ (Wikisource) Bytes- (Wikisource) Edits Created Proofread Confirmed
Alaverdi Wikiclub 229066 -9075 166 36 0 0 0 0 0 0
Charentsavan Wiki group 59047 -724 24 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Arevstsag Wikiclub 242070 -569 97 14 0 0 0 0 0 0
Goris Wikiclub 141531 -1152 217 18 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ddmashen Wikiclub 44134 -316 20 3 114954 0 62 41 61 0
Lernapat Wikiclub 1100615 -28373 1148 88 6514 0 2 2 0 0
Kogh Wikiclub 0 0 1 0 31994 -855 18 5 0 13
Hatsik Wikiclub 207081 -3115 90 29 0 0 0 0 0 0
Stepanakert Wikiclub 365673 -2583 96 27 0 0 0 0 0 0
Karvachar Wikiclub 83713 0 29 10 0 0 0 0 0 0
Archis Wikiclub 2754 0 7 1 239 -112 106 0 0 106
Berd Wikiclub 0 0 0 0 14043 -317 40 0 35 0
Verin Karmiraghbyur Wikiclub 265753 -672 37 11 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kirants Wikiclub 45026 -439 44 6 70169 -102 33 23 32 0
TOTAL 2786463 -47018 1976 248 237913 -1415 263 71 128 119