GLAM/Newsletter/July 2020/Contents/Albania report
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Wikimedia CEE Spring 2020 in Albania and Kosova
Wikimedia CEE Spring 2020 - 2 day edit-a-thon
On May 9-10, 2020, Wikimedias of Albanian Language UG, held online - Cee Spring 2020 - edit-a-thon, where Albania and Kosovo participated in the competition organized by the Wikimedians of Central and Eastern Europe. During the two days, the focus was on writing new articles about the culture and history of Central and Southern European countries on Albanian Wikipedia. We had the participation of 11 people from Albania and Kosovo who worked individually online from home for the event. All In two days, a total of 113 new articles were written and a total of 123 articles were improved for the culture of Central and Southern European countries.
Results
In Wikipedia Albania during 2 months we had a total of 265 articles. To thank the contributor we bought gift card, so they could buy books they liked. We bought the card and left them to the shop, to make sure everyone would be safe of COVID-19. Also, we asked them to write to us the most interesting things they learned during the competition, and we shared the "facts" on our social media.