About Wikipedia

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The Wikipedia Community

● Volunteers worldwide collaboratively write Wikipedia's articles ● 30 million articles 4.4 million articles in English

● 287 languages, including Albanian

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Wikipedia and why it is important: ● a massive funnel of open knowledge

● access for all races, genders, social and economic classes

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● 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

Contacts

Emails ● wikiacademy@openlabs.cc

● info@openlabs.cc

Website

wikiakademia.openlabs.cc