Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2015/Programme/Wiki Events/How to organize a WikCamp in another country. WikiCamp in Lebanon

Title of your proposal edit

Name(s) and/or username(s)
Susanna Mkrtchyan / User:SusikMkr
David Saroyan / User:David Saroyan
Type of submission (Please choose one)
  • Lecture (one-to-many)
Summary

In August 2015 Wikimedia Armenia organized a WikiCamp in Beirut, Lebanon for Western Armenian speaker community in the scope of "Western Armenian" project. Though WM AM have already organized 5 WikiCamps in Armenia, this was our first experience to organize a WikiCamp in another country. We want to share our experience how to organize a WikiCamp in another country, what problems, challenges we faced and how we solved them.

Preliminary preparation (if necessary)
Expected outcomes

CEE Communities will acquire knowledge on how to organize a WikiCamp. We'll try to find opportunities and discuss the possibility to organize WikiCamp in collaboration with other CEE Communities.

Duration (without Q&A)

20-25

Specific requirements
Slides or further information
Interested attendees (Please add yourself, and you may indicate your questions to the presenter).
  1. Violetova (talk) 18:25, 25 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  2. --Olena Zakharian (talk) 17:47, 26 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  3. --Mikheil Talk 15:35, 7 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]