Wikimedia Armenia organizes winter Wiki camp in Aghveran

YEREVAN, January 13. / ARKA /. On 7-11 January, Wikimedia Armenia Scientific-Educational NGO organized a Winter Wiki Camp in the “Voske Getak” holiday home in Aghveran for young people of 14-20. The leading telecommunications operator in Armenia VivaCell-MTS supported the organization of the camp by providing high-quality internet connection. On January 10, the participants of Winter Wiki Camp boosted the Armenian Wikipedia from the 42nd to the 41st place in global ranking. Wikipedia is a multilingual encyclopedia with free content that is created by the users of the Wikipedia website in free editing format. Wikipedia and its sister projects are among the top five of the websites which offer free content. In 2014 Wikipedia Armenia organized a Wiki camp in Vanadzor which surpassed all Wiki projects with its effectiveness and was recognized as the best Wikimedia project in the annual Wikimania conference held in London. In 2015 Wikipedia Armenia plans to organize 4 Wiki camps, two of which in international format. Participants of the Winter Wiki camp 2015 were schoolchildren of 14-20. T he participation fee was provided by their parents and active Wikipedia editors. During the camp the young people added materials to the Wiktionary, Wikidata, Wikipedia, learned Armenian songs and took part in intellectual games. -0-

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