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● Volunteers worldwide collaboratively write Wikipedia's articles ● 30 million articles 4.4 million articles in English
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Wikipedia and why it is important: ● a massive funnel of open knowledge
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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
