2024:Program/“Financial-Economic Wikimonth” connects Wikimedia Armenia with the Central Bank of Armenia
Session title: “Financial-Economic Wikimonth” connects Wikimedia Armenia with the Central Bank of Armenia
- Session type: Lightning talk
- Track: Partnerships
- Language: en
Wikimedia Armenia has a very strong annual partnership with the Central Bank of Armenia (CBA) aiming at creating and improving financial-economic topics on Armenian Wikipedia. The “Financial-Economic Wikimonth” is one of the outstanding projects that WMAM holds annually with the CBA with a grant provided by the bank. Finding common ground and mutually beneficial topics to work on with external institutions is not usually an easy task. However, Wikimedia Armenia was able to combine efforts with the CBA to fill the content gap for the financial and economic topics on Armenian Wikipedia.
Description
[edit | edit source]The aim of this presentation is to showcase a good example of partnership between a Wikimedia organisation and an external institution. Wikimedia Armenia has been closely collaborating with the Central Bank of Armenia since 2019; the joint project “Financial-Economic Wikimonth” gradually improved and became one of the most important annual projects implemented by Wikimedia Armenia. In 2023, this project reached a new level incorporating an active edit-a-thon with a three-day gathering leading to an outstanding outcome compared to previous years - 281 articles. One of the most important grounds for cooperation was the mutual understanding of the gap of financial-economic topics on Armenian Wikipedia and the need to fill this gap to improve financial literacy of Armenians. The whole project is implemented with a grant provided by the Central Bank of Armenia which is also an important achievement for Wikimedia Armenia.
- How does your session relate to the event theme, Collaboration of the Open?
In order to create open and accessible knowledge for everyone it is vital to cooperate with various institutions which may give a new perspective and trustworthy sources. Within the framework of this, our lightning talk about "Financial-Economic Wikimonth" is a good example of how Wikimedians can join efforts with external organizations to create free knowledge which will benefit everyone.
- What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?
Everyone can participate in this session
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[edit | edit source]Speakers
[edit | edit source]- Mari Avetisyan
- My name is Mari. I am from Armenia and I represent Wikimedia Armenia. I joined the Wikimedia Movement in 2018 and I am active on Armenia Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons andWikidata.