Wikimedia Armenia/Reports/2017-02

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The Brief Story of Mrgavan WikiClub[edit]

In February WMAM team has written the story of the establishment of a WikiClub called Mrgavan WikiClub, located in Mrgavan village, Armenia in WMF Education Newsletter. This could not happen if a student from the Mrgavan High School - Christian Ginosyan did not propose to open a WikiClub in his village.

Wiki Loves Science[edit]

WLS group photo, February, 2017

Wikimedia Armenia has organized a two day “Wiki Loves Science” editathon that ran from 24th till 26th of February. 32 people have participated in WLS editathon. During the two days participants have enriched the Armenian Wikipedia with their professional articles. A total of 151 articles has been created during this editathon.

Wiki Loves Science

(February 24-26)

Number of participants Wikipedia
participants 32
created/improved

articles/entries

151
edits 1540
bytes (net sum) 1,877,136

Saturday Workshops[edit]

Saturday Workshop, February, 2017

Every Saturday Wikimedia Armenia organizes open workshops edit-a-thons at the WM AM office where new editors are taught how to edit different wiki projects and the experienced editors participate in edit-a-thons dedicated to different themes. Anyone interested in wiki projects, Wikipedia, wiki editing and needing assistance, as well as wiki editors, who want to edit in pleasant atmosphere participate in these workshops. We have about 15-20 participants in each workshop. Among them there are also active wiki editors of hywiki, hywiktionary, hywikisource, Wikidata who help to conduct the workshops.