Translations:Wikimedians of the Levant/2020/7/en

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We expanded the 'Open Jordanian Heritage' project[edit]

A historically-active station of the Hejaz railway at Al-Jizah (south of Amman). The photo was donated as part of the Open Jordanian Heritage project.

Since 2019, Wikimedia Levant has been co-running a project to promote the Jordanian heritage on Wikimedia websites. The project is a partnership with the American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) and the Jordan Open Source Association (JOSA), and has successfully contributed hundreds of photos and articles to Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. Throughout this year, the project gained a far wider scope by recruiting Jordan's first ever Wikimedians in residence, as two volunteers serving at ACOR for three months each. The Wikimedians in residence, Wikimedia Levant and partners collaborated together to organize three edit-a-thons in this year (one was face-to-face in early 2020, the rest virtual). A total of around one hundred participants joined these events, contributing than 45,000 words and adding about 100 sources to Wikipedia articles on the cultural and historical heritage of Jordan.

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