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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
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