greta doçi - wikiacademy albania
DESCRIPTION
"The goal of Wiki Academy is to improve the quality and quantity of online content on Albanian Culture to better represent Albania to the world. The WikiAcademy will bring together active online citizens and content experts and help them develop into skilled editors to write high quality articles and source high quality photos regarding Albania in categories such as culture, heritage, social issues, geography, institutions, economy and tourism."TRANSCRIPT
About Wikipedia
● Internet encyclopedia
● Collaboratively edited, multilingual, free
● Supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikipedia Community
● Volunteers worldwide collaboratively write Wikipedia's articles ● 30 million articles 4.4 million articles in English
● 287 languages, including Albanian
● Mobile version and apps
Wikipedia and why it is important: ● a massive funnel of open knowledge
● access for all races, genders, social and economic classes
● published using Creative Commons licenses
● information/knowledge sharing
Wikipedia in Albanian
● started on October 12, 2003
● contains 50,271 articles
● 57,611 registered users
● albanian Wikipedia is the 63rd largest Wikipedia
Wikipedia in Albanian: why work on it?
Quantity we need more articles
Quality 'ë' & 'ç' missing few photos and multimedia per article generally short articles
What can we do to change this?
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WikiAkademia Shqiptare
WikiAkademia Shqiptare
a tour of presentations and workshops to universities, high schools, NGOs,public administration, cultural organizations andto every place that can host these activities in Albania and not only.
WikiAkademia Shqiptare: goals
● promote the importance of open knowledge projects such as Wikipedia
● improve the quality and quantity of online content of articles related to Albania through...
● higher number of contributors
● better representation of Albanian culture and heritage
WikiAkademia Shqiptare (pilot project) Activities so far:
Wikipedia workshop at Open Labs
Wikipedia workshop at Open Labs
WikiAkademia pilot program Universiteti Shtetëror i Tetovës
WikiAkademia pilot program Tetovo High School
Ahmet Dakli Hight School, Elbasan
Jusuf Puka, Durres
Aleksander Moisiu University, Durres
@Radio Travel
Kostandin Kristoforidhi Hight School , Elbasan