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    news.am, Armenia
    Aug 6 2011


    Number of Wikipedia contributors in Armenia remains unchanged



    August 06, 2011 | 09:00

    Wikipedia, free online encyclopedia, is losing authors, said Wikipedia
    founder Jimmy Wales speaking with the Associated Press.

    The average age of a Wikipedia contributor is 26. People grow up, find
    interesting job get married and leave, he said adding there are fewer
    new entries to add after 10-year work of the website.

    The company plans to launch a new program which will attract
    professors and students particularly from in India, Brazil, Canada,
    Germany and Britain.

    Armenian representatives of the encyclopedia are also engaged in
    increasing the number of articles in the Armenian language and
    involvement of new young authors.

    One of the admins of the Armenian version of Wikipedia Aleksey
    Chalabyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am - Innovations they are
    negotiating with Education and Science Ministry to raise the issue in
    schools and colleges of Armenia.

    Thus, they will try to involve new contributors, he said stressing
    that work in the encyclopedia must remain voluntary.

    Chalabyan noted that the number of authors in Armenia neither
    increases nor reduces.

    `At the moment there are ten active contributors,' he said noting it
    is difficult to specify the correct number of authors.

    He stressed that the Armenian version has been recently updated with
    sport articles referring to soccer and chess written mainly by young
    authors. On average contributors write for Wikipedia for 2-3 years and
    then leave the website.

    Wikipedia was created in 2001 as nonprofit project. At the moment
    encyclopedia has about 9,25 million articles in 250 languages. The
    Armenian-language articles have been created for six years totaling
    over 14,000.

    According to Google, Wikipedia.org is the fifth most visited website
    in the world after Facebook.com, YouTube.com, Yahoo.com and Live.com

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