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Wikipedia Day is celebrated today

January 15 is Wikipedia Day. Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.

Wikipedia Day is celebrated today

Wikipedia Day is celebrated today

STEPANAKERT, JANUARY 15, ARTSAKHPRESS:Wikipedia has 285 language versions. Armenian occupies 34th place.

The co-founder and coordinator of Stepanakert's wiki club, Irina Safaryan, told Artsakhpress that today Wikipedia has a wide circle of readers.

She informed that the Armenian version of Wikipedia was created in 2004 and has 237 thousand articles at the moment.

''We have 11 wiki clubs in Artsakh and Armenia. In 2015 the first wiki club was founded in Artsakh's capital city of Stepanakert. Subsequently wiki clubs were opened in Togh, Hadrut region, and Karvachar, Shahumyan region. More than 1,000 articles have been edited over the three years; more than 300 of them are about Artsakh,'' Irina Safaryan said. She added that they take part in different workshops and meet with famous people to discuss issues concerning Wikipedia.

In Artsakh and Armenia the project of Wikipedia free encyclopedia is sponsored by ''Wikimedia Armenia'' nonprofit scientific-educational NGO.

Presidemt of the ''Wikimedia Armenia'' NGO, Susanna Mkrtchyan, attached importance to the role of Wikipedia free encyclopedia in social life.


     

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