What I Learned: Improving the Armenian Wiktionary with the help of students « Wikimedia blog

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-02-03

Summary:

"WikiCamp is an education program that aims to get young students editing Armenian-language content on Wikimedia sites. National identity, recreation and knowledge are at the core of this program, as participant Shahen Araboghlian states: 'WikiCamp is a new experience, a chance to meet other people, self-develop and enrich Western Armenian language in the Internet'. This exciting initiative, which aims to get young Armenian Education Program participants aged 14 to 20 to edit the Armenian Wikipedia, has been around since July 2014—since which there have been five WikiCamps. The return from the camps is surprisingly high, and they are well known in Armenia—having been covered by Aravot and News.am in January 2015, along with several others. The camp has also increased in popularity among students, increasing the number of participants from 59 in the first camp to 76 in the second edition, and growing ..."

Link:

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/02/01/wikicamp-armenia-student-editors/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.armenia oa.armenian oa.languages oa.wikipedia oa.events

Date tagged:

02/03/2016, 10:05

Date published:

02/03/2016, 05:05