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    Armenia: Citizens urged to write Wikipedia entry each

    31 July 2014 Last updated at 16:00


    By News from Elsewhere... ...media reports from around the world,
    found by BBC Monitoring
    National heritage is getting a boost via a flurry of articles on
    Armenian Wikipedia


    Armenians are being urged to do their patriotic duty - by each writing
    an article on Wikipedia, it seems.

    The campaign - One Armenian, One Article, dreamed up by the government
    - hopes to increase the number and quality of articles in the Armenian
    language and script, promote Armenian culture, and perhaps compete
    with neighbouring Georgia and Azerbaijan in the Wikipedia stakes,
    according to an advertisement running on EU Armenia TV.

    The ad started out as a YouTube clip, but it's recently been given a
    new lease of life running on satellite TV to Armenians all over the
    world. The Armenian diaspora - thought to number some eight million
    people - far outnumbers the country's resident population of about 3
    million.

    High profile artists, musicians and politicians are getting in on the
    act. Education minister Armen Ashotyan says in the clip: "One
    Armenian, one article - I will definitely do that and believe you will
    too." The Defence Minister, Seyran Ohanyan, says he's already added an
    article about the Armenian army. Articles by celebrities and ordinary
    citizens are equally valued, the ad says. A young person is shown
    writing an article about radishes.

    There may be a competitive edge in the promotion. Reporting the number
    of Wikipedia articles has been on the agenda of Armenian TV and news
    agencies since the campaign began in March, and it seems Armenian
    Wikipedia is currently outstripping its neighbours in page numbers,
    racking up more than 125,000 articles compared to around 102,000 in
    Azerbaijan and almost 84,000 in Georgia.

    Use #NewsfromElsewhere to stay up-to-date with our reports via Twitter.


    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-28588188

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