Wikimedia Armenia/Reports/2023-07
Wikicamp 2023 edit
Wikimedia Armenia organized a 7-day Wikicamp for teenagers in Tsaghkadzor on 7-14 July. 35 teenagers aged 13-17 took part in Wikicamp. The campers contributed to Wikipedia and Wikidata during the 7 days of the camp. In 7 days, 28 campers contributed to Armenian Wikipedia by creating 478 articles, in total 3,357,581 bytes. The other 7 participants contributed to Wikidata by translating item labels with a volume of 210,000 bytes and 5723 edits. 318 out of 478 articles created during the Wikicamp were dedicated to Armenian football - players, clubs and coaches. This topic was chosen in order to fill the gap of articles about Armenian sports in Armenian Wikipedia. In order to encourage the editors working on this topic, a “football day” was organized in Wikicamp. During this day football players from the Youth football team of Armenia visited the campers. The guests gave their jerseys to the most active campers-editors after which a friendly game was played between the Wikicamp and the Youth football team players. Besides editing, the participants also took part in sports, intellectual, and cultural games. Sports included volleyball, dodgeball, football, table tennis, tug of war and Sportlandia, and Fort Wiki. The latter includes 8 trials - editing, hammering a nail, darts, solving a metal disentangle puzzle in water, answering an intellectual question, finding the next trial inside containers filled with different items, remembering color sequence, finding the way with closed eyes.
The participants also played a “Brain ring” intellectual game answering 20 intellectual questions. The campers were assigned to prepare a video about Wikicamp starting from day one until the end of the camp. The Wikicamp participants also had music and dancing lessons. On the third day of the Wikicamp, the participants visited Tsaghkadzor ropeway.
Training for “Explore philosophy” Wikiproject edit
On August 1, 2023 Wikimedia Armenia launched the “Explore philosophy” Wikiproject. For those who wanted to participate in the project but were beginners, Wikimedia Armenia organized a training on 19-25 July at the WMAM office. During the training, the participants were introduced to Wikipedia history, 5 pillars of Wikipedia, the structure of articles, as well as editing tools. 155 people registered for the training, 37 out of which visited the WMAM office. Everyone created user accounts and began working in their sandboxes. During the training participants created articles in Armenian Wikipedia. Starting from August 1 the training participants will create and improve articles within the framework of the “Explore philosophy” project.
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2023 edit
In 2023, Wikimedia Armenia joined the WPWP project which is gaining momentum year by year. The project aims to enrich pages of different language Wikiprojects with existing and newly uploaded pictures. The project conditions are to add pictures to those articles which do not have pictures and to add description to added pictures. Articles can be in any language Wiki project. During the month of July, 12 wiki editors from Armenia joined the project and added already existing 1821 pictures to 755 pages of 19 different wikiprojects.
Wikiclubs’ report edit
In July, the activities of Stepanakert Wikiclub were stopped. Instead Kirants Wikiclub was reopened. During the month of July, there were 157 members registered in all 7 active Wikiclubs (Goris, Ddmashen, Lernapat, Kirants, Koghb, Hatsik, and Jermuk).
Wikicamp 2023 (13-17 ages) edit
28 Wikiclub members took part in Wikicamp which was organized on 7-14 July in Tsaghkadzor. During the camp, club members created articles and contributed to Wikidata. Many of them were granted certificates and awards for their active participation.
Digitalization of articles from the Encyclopedia “Armenian Typography and Book Art” edit
In July, Wikiclub members continued to participate in the project of creating articles by using the “Armenian Typography and Book Art” encyclopedia (“Armenian Encyclopedia” Publishing House, 2015) which was released under the Commons BY-SA 3.0 license. Wikiclub members either created the missing items of the corresponding pages in Wikidata or linked the created articles with already existing items. Within the framework of this project 267 articles with a volume of 769,074 bytes were created in July. The project ended in July. And during the 3 months of the project 787 articles were created with a total volume of 1,777,847 bytes.
Wikiedits edit
Throughout July, out of 157 Wikiclub members 78 contributed to Wikipedia. In total, they have created 776 articles and made 3214 edits with a volume of 5,169,696 bytes. During the month of July, 70 Wikiclub members contributed to Wikidata, by making 9099 edits in total. 13 of Wikiclub members contributed to Wikisource where they made 55 edits creating 30 pages and proofreading 38. Their contribution was 78,494 bytes.
Other events edit
Besides editing, the following events were organized in Wikiclubs: In Koghb Wikiclub, a movie screening was organized after which the club members wrote an article about the movie. One of Wikiclub members wrote an article about an oriental sweets and then baked it herself. Lernapat Wikiclub summarized the results of an interclub edit-a-thon and the best editors received awards. Within the framework of Hatsik Wikiclub’s 5th anniversary club members cleaned the area near the club and later organized a picnic during which they had the chance to get to know each other better and to play various intellectual games. At the end of the month a Wikidata competition was held and the winners received small souvenirs. In Ddmashen Wikiclub, translation works are constantly being carried out, during which the members get to know some translation nuances that need to be taken into account when using foreign language Wikipedias. A discussion of the mistakes made by the younger participants takes place. There is a “green corner” in Ddmashen Wikiclub where plants are cultivated and cared for by club members.