Purpose of the report[edit]

This form is for organizations receiving Annual Plan Grants to report on their results to date. For progress reports, the time period for this report will the first 6 months of each grant (e.g. 1 January - 30 June of the current year). For impact reports, the time period for this report will be the full 12 months of this grant, including the period already reported on in the progress report (e.g. 1 January - 31 December of the current year). This form includes four sections, addressing global metrics, program stories, financial information, and compliance. Please contact APG/FDC staff if you have questions about this form, or concerns submitting it by the deadline. After submitting the form, organizations will also meet with APG staff to discuss their progress.

Global metrics overview - all programs[edit]

We are trying to understand the overall outcomes of the work being funded across our grantees' programs. Please use the table below to let us know how your programs contributed to the Global Metrics. We understand not all Global Metrics will be relevant for all programs, so feel free to put "0" where necessary. For each program include the following table and

Next to each required metric, list the outcome achieved for all of your programs included in your proposal.
Where necessary, explain the context behind your outcome.
In addition to the Global Metrics as measures of success for your programs, there is another table format in which you may report on any OTHER relevant measures of your programs success

For more information and a sample, see Global Metrics.

Metric	Achieved outcome	Explanation
1. # of active editors involved	523
2. # of new editors	514
3. # of individuals involved	more than 770
4. # of new images/media added to Wikimedia articles/pages	4056	Inculdes images/media from WLM and GLAM, as well as word pronunciations from WikiCamps and article recordings from Spoken Wikipedia.
5. # of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects	116951	Includes Wikipedia articles created/improved, Wiktionary entries (mostly created), and Wikisource proofread pages.
6. Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects	177,713,965	Includes Wikipedia articles created/improved, Wiktionary entries (mostly created), and Wikisource proofread pages.

Telling your program stories - all programs[edit]

Please tell the story of each of your programs included in your proposal. This is your chance to tell your story by using any additional metrics (beyond global metrics) that are relevant to your context, beyond the global metrics above. You should be reporting against the targets you set at the beginning of the year throughout the year. We have provided a template here below for you to report against your targets, but you are welcome to include this information in another way. Also, if you decided not to do a program that was included in your proposal or added a program not in the proposal, please explain this change. More resources for storytelling are at the end of this form. Here are some ways to tell your story.

We encourage you to share your successes and failures and what you are learning. Please also share why are these successes, failures, or learnings are important in your context. Reference learning patterns or other documentation.
Make clear connections between your offline activities and online results, as applicable. For example, explain how your education program activities is leading to quality content on Wikipedia.
We encourage you to tell your story in different ways by using videos, sound files, images (photos and infographics, e.g.), compelling quotes, and by linking directly to work you produce. You may highlight outcomes, learning, or metrics this way.
We encourage you to continue using dashboards, progress bars, and scorecards that you have used to illustrate your progress in the past, and to report consistently over time.
You are welcome to use the table below to report on any metrics or measures relevant to your program. These may or may not include the global metrics you put in the overview section above. You can also share your progress in another way if you do not find a table like this useful.

Education program[edit]

Summary[edit]

Wikipedia Education Program is one of the priority programs of Wikimedia Armenia and is essential for the spreading and developing the Armenian wiki movement, as well as for the usage of Wikimedia projects in education. Since the launching of Armenian Wikipedia Education Program in 2013 due to activities of Wikimedia Armenia more than 1100 users were involved from different educational institutions. During July 2015 - July 2016 on the average 84 participants were active on Wikipedia and 99 on Wiktionary (see detailed statistics on Outreach) providing more than 16% retention rate.

This result is due to the wide range of activities organized in the scope of Wikipedia Education Program, including Wikiseminars for teachers, workshops in different educational institutions, WikiCamps, WikiClubs etc. These activities are presented in details in the "Activities" and other programs section. During these activities, we encountered various inspiring stories. Some of them can be found in the "Stories" section. Lastly, the Education Program Team learned a lot while implementing the activities and the most important valuable learnings are given in the "Valuable learnings" section.

Measures of success[edit]

Sustain and increase the reach of wiki movement and educational projects in the regions of Armenia - (see "Activities" section for details).
6 (first 6 months) and 5 (second 6 months) new schools are added to the Education program. The number of schools which are involved in educational projects was increased from 16 to 27 by July 1, 2016.
13 schools maintained and are currently participating in Wikimedia Armenia Educational Programs from proposed 10.
24,352 articles (excluded WikiCamps) are created on Wikipedia from proposed 10,000. (the number of improved articles are unknown)^[1]
71,735 entries (excluded WikiCamps) are created on Wiktionary from proposed 8,000^[1].
More than 183 participants survived 12 months in the education program (made 1 edit).^[1]
More than 82 participants survived 12 months in the education program (made 5 edits).
11+ participants organized local events in their communities by July 1.

More detailed monthly stats with individual results in Armenian.

Activities[edit]

A number of activities have been carried out during the Education program which has given support to the program to a great extent.

Workshops

One of the activities are workshops organized in different schools by both teachers and Education program participants who after years of editing and supporting WM AM has now taken an initiative of organizing events in their schools to involve more students to the program. Each Saturday up to the present a workshop is organized in the AYB school by the librarian of the school and a student. The students of this school are assigned to do social work each year (about 40 hours) and many of them choose editing Wikiprojects as a part of their social work. A number of workshops have also been organized in other schools of Yerevan, Charentsavan, Artashat, Gyumri, Mrgavan, Lernapat, Arevatsag, Artsakh, etc.

Wikiseminar for teachers

Wikimedia Armenia organizes wikiseminar for teachers of different regions of Armenia twice a year during school holidays to spread the reach of wiki-movement throughout the country, to involve new editors and volunteers in the WM AM projects. The first wikiseminar was organized in Aghveran in October 2015 and the second one in Dilijan in June 2016. It should be noted that each time the number of applicants to take part in the seminar increased which means that more and more people are interested in learning and being involved in the Wikipedia Education program. We had 100 applicants for the first wikiseminar of which only 29 were chosen and from 146 applicants 51 were chosen for the second seminar.

During the seminars, the teachers learned about the wiki-movement, its ideology, wikiprojects, how to edit different wikiprojects, the main rules, and tools. Of course, there were teachers who run into difficulties during the first days while learning editing tools and main principles of Wikipedia but as soon as they mastered their skills they kept up with the rest of the teachers and began to improve and create articles. It is very significant to state that there were teachers who have applied to the seminar being inspired by their students and children (for more details please see the "Stories"). After the seminar, many of the teachers actively try to organize different events in their schools. As the criteria to be a participant of the wikiseminar was relatively low we have got many applicants. However, we decided to make the application form more detailed and increase the criteria for participating in the next seminar, thus we expect to have fewer participants.

Here is the metrics:

	Edits	Pages created	Bytes positive	Bytes negative
Wikipedia	9706	866	7599487	-306097
Wiktionary	2489	102	179047	-18456
Wikisource	167	83	207286	-355

Blogposts about wikiseminars in WMF Education newsletter:

Detailed metrics of the Education Program:

Cooperation with NCET

Within the frames of Wikiseminar since 2015 Wikimedia Armenia began to cooperate with the National Center of Educational Technologies. The NCET was established in 2004 with the mission to develop a contemporary educational environment in Armenia. The organization helps us in spreading the wikiseminar announcement in all the regional schools of Armenia thus fulfilling the role of the promoter at schools.

Collab, translation of education materials, and printing

Some of Wikimedia Armenia Education team are members of Wikipedia Education Collaborative (or Collab) which is a network of international education program leaders who volunteer to share their expertise and experience to support other education programs in achieving their goals. As a part of their volunteer work in Collab they have translated "Instructor Basics How to Use Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool" brochure which tells about the usage of Wikipedia as a teaching tool in higher education classrooms. In March 2016 the Collab members met in person in Stockholm, Sweden to discuss a number of issues like the critical reflection on previous two years, planning for a year ahead, documenting best practices and experiences and the future of the Collab. During the meeting, 12 videos were recorded where the educators from different countries shared their experience in using Wikipedia in their classroom and education program. The video series can be found under the following category.

To better support and promote Wikipedia Education program a number of materials were printed like stickers, banners, barnstars, brochures, etc.

Stories[edit]

Students inspire their teachers

During the first wikiseminar organized for teachers in Aghveran in October some of the teachers confessed that their students have inspired them to apply and join the program. Varsenik Danielyan from Mrgavan village secondary school said:

I have many students who want to learn editing Wikipedia and every time they ask me for help. I can't support them because I myself haven't edited before. I also have a very active student who all the time speaks about Wikipedia and tries to involve his classmates and when we learned that a wiki seminar is going to be organized he encouraged me to participate.

Gayane Gevorgyan - a Computer Science teacher from Stepanavan N1 high school revealed that about 4-5 years ago one of her students approached her and asked to help him create an article in Armenian Wikipedia. After some attempts they succeeded. Her former student has now become one of the active editors on the Armenian Wikipedia who created more than 1071 articles and having 5137+ global edits. And when she learned about wiki seminar she applied with great enthusiasm.

Children inspire their parents

At the second wikiseminar organized for teachers in Dilijan, among the participants, there were also parents whose children already actively edit Wikipedia in the frames of Wikipedia Education program. Seeing their children so active in editing they wanted to learn to edit themselves. One of the parents - Hamest Melikyan confessed:

I was worried that my son spent hours in front of the laptop. But now, seeing the important work he is doing by creating and sharing free knowledge, I'm more understanding. I'm so proud of him!

Hamest's son - user:7Vendetta7 is a high school student, one of the active editors of Armenian Wikipedia. Editing for only 1 year and 3 months, he has already 4023 edits in different wikiprojects and 795 articles on Armenian Wikipedia 2 of which (Dennis Bergkamp, Dean Martin) have been chosen as featured and good articles in Armenian Wikipedia. 7Vendetta7 was also one of the editors of Armenian Wikipedia Education Program, who had been selected by Wikimedia Armenia to participate in WikiCamp Portugal organized for Western Armenian students and the Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2016 organized in Dilijan, Armenia.

The other student who has inspired her mother - Anahit Vardanyan to join Wikiseminar and Wikipedia is the user:Enirack who reveals:

I have told a lot my mom about Wikipedia, WikiCamps and wiki-environment in general, before the wiki seminar. When I learned that there will be a seminar for teachers I immediately told my mom about it. At first, she thought that it would be difficult but then told that would like to get acquainted with wiki world.

Wikipedia is a wonderful way to get and share knowledge for Anahit. The wiki skills she got during the seminar help her to manage her free time in wiki world. Anahit Vardanyan has created 147 articles and done 1119 edits while her daughter Enirack has created 645 articles and done 3604 global edits. Mother and daughter have also participated in 100wikidays challenge.

Charentsavan school story

Narine Muradyan the psychologist of the Mesrop Mashtots school of Charentsavan applied to participate to the very first wikiseminar organized in May 2015 in Aghveran. Returning home Narine continued actively edit Wikipedia mainly on art themes creating a number of articles and templates about paintings. A few months later, Narine began teaching her students wiki-editing tools and soon they were involved in Wikipedia Education program. Her students edit so actively that 6 of them were chosen to participate in WikiCamp 2016. Narine on involving her students in editing process:

When I have been editing for a couple of months and have already mastered my editing skills, I decided to involve my students in editing Wikipedia as well. At the Winter WikiCamp 2016, I was a team leader and seeing the campers unity and solidarity, I decided to involve my students in this cool program. After talking to the head of the school who positively responded to my offer we did our first steps. Wikipedia is one of the best ways of self-perfection for me.

Narine Muradyan has created 74 articles and done 1857 global edits. She was also one of the teachers to be chosen to participate in Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2016 organized in Dilijan, Armenia.

Valuable learnings[edit]

Wiktionary based education program

In 2015 the Education Team initiated the Wiktionary based education program for the secondary school students, which brings one of the major changes in the Armenian education program.

As the wish to edit Wikipedia and its sister projects among secondary school students was enormous, Education Team decided to involve these students in editing Wiktionary. Editing Wiktionary doesn’t have the same requirements as writing an encyclopedic article; the editors just fill the necessary fields using the provided dictionaries. Helpful guides, word lists, dictionary links made the editing process much easier for secondary school students. As the Armenian Wiktionary did not have active users, Wiktionary tutorials were created for them. Also, different free dictionaries have been found and digitized, word lists were created and provided to the students, all of which gave a foundation to begin enriching Armenian Wiktionary with words.

The process was simple: students were asked to write the word’s definition, examples of usage, etymology, expressions, synonyms, derived forms, and translations. Before the start of the Education program, there was a major gap in Armenian-language content and no complete free dictionary. This gap inspired the Education team and was the main reason why the focus was solely on Armenian content.^[2]

Wikisource as a part of education program

The main breakthrough after the Wiktionary based education program was realizing that other Wikimedia projects could be as effective education tools as Wikipedia, so there were attempts to implement other iterations. Wikisource was the next one, it was initially used in June 2016 during the WikiCamp. On the basis of digitized materials from the Digitization program, several books were chosen which were provided to the education program participants, who after learning the basics of Wikisource, started to proofread. At the initial stages, the Education Team tried to choose easy books because Armenian OCR is not of the best quality so there is usually a lot to proofread.

After the official and successful launching at the Summer WikiCamp 2015, proofreading process continued mainly in the WikiClubs thus increasing the number of digitized and proofread content on Armenian Wikisource and using Wikisource as a tool in the education program.

Teachers as the main center of wiki-movement at their schools

At the beginning of our education program, most of the workshops and promotion of the program was done by the Wikimedia Armenia's volunteers and/or staff members. As the education program enlarges, Wikimedia Armenia started to need more human resources to implement workshops, assess, promote and maintain the education program in different institutions of Armenia. Mostly because of this lack, Education Team proposed to launch teacher training seminars, where teachers from different regions and institutions of Armenia will learn Wikipedia and Education program basics, try to promote the program in their institutions thus involving new students and spreading the wiki movement. This is a valuable learning for us because it gave us the possibility to increase the reach of the wiki projects even more and involve new educators.