"The goal of Wiki Academy is to improve the quality and quantity of online content on Albanian Culture to better represent Albania to the world. The WikiAcademy will bring together active online citizens and content experts and help them develop into skilled editors to write high quality articles and source high quality photos regarding Albania in categories such as culture, heritage, social issues, geography, institutions, economy and tourism."

3. About Wikipedia
● Internet encyclopedia
● Collaboratively edited,
multilingual, free
● Supported by the non-profit
Wikimedia Foundation

4. The Wikipedia Community
● Volunteers worldwide
collaboratively write
Wikipedia's articles
● 30 million articles
4.4 million articles in
English
● 287 languages, including
Albanian
● Mobile version and apps

5. Wikipedia and why it is important:
● a massive funnel of
open knowledge
● access for all races, genders,
social and economic classes
● published using
Creative Commons licenses
● information/knowledge sharing

6. Wikipedia in Albanian
● started on October 12, 2003
● contains 50,271 articles
● 57,611 registered users
● albanian Wikipedia is the
63rd largest Wikipedia

7. Wikipedia in Albanian: why work on it?
Quantity
we need more articles
Quality 'ë' & 'ç' missing
few photos and multimedia
per article generally short articles

8. What can we do to change this?
?

9. WikiAkademia Shqiptare

10. WikiAkademia Shqiptare
a tour of presentations and workshops to
universities, high schools, NGOs,
public administration, cultural organizations and
to every place that can host these activities in
Albania and not only.

11. WikiAkademia Shqiptare: goals
● promote the importance of open knowledge
projects such as Wikipedia
● improve the quality and quantity of online content of
articles related to Albania through...
● higher number of contributors
● better representation of Albanian culture and
heritage

12. WikiAkademia Shqiptare
(pilot project)
Activities so far:

13. Wikipedia workshop at Open Labs

14. Wikipedia workshop at Open Labs

15. WikiAkademia pilot program
Universiteti Shtetëror i Tetovës

16. WikiAkademia pilot program Tetovo
High School

17. Ahmet Dakli Hight School, Elbasan

18. Jusuf Puka, Durres

19. Aleksander Moisiu University,
Durres

20. @Radio Travel

21. Kostandin Kristoforidhi Hight School
, Elbasan

23. Contacts
Emails
● wikiacademy@openlabs.cc
● info@openlabs.cc
Website
wikiakademia.openlabs.cc