RUBEN SAFRASTYAN
aspects of the entire human civilization, contributes not only to the content in Armenian, but also to the upturn of awareness of the Armenian society. Surely, the content is created in accordance with the Armenian perception of the world. Thus, such content is added to the all-Armenian content.
I would like to mention another factor. As we have already noted, about two-third of all Armenians are still live in the Diaspora. Wikipedia, in the three above-mentioned languages, is a means of creating a particular Armenian area in cyberspace. The Wikipedia articles of special value should play an important role there. We can mention different attempts to publish articles both in Eastern Armenian version of the Armenian language, which is spoken in Armenia and in a certain part of the Diaspora, and the Western Armenian, which is used in some parts of the Diaspora. Thus, we can say that the Civilization Geopolitics of Armenia has more chances to succeed in the cyberspace than the traditional geopolitics in real life.
In the final part of the report I’ d like to focus on some specific cases that support our main points.
The Armenian Wikipedia is supported by the state. The issues related to its development are discussed at the government meetings. Another example: the country’ s president has recently visited the office of the“ Wikimedia” organization, which coordinates the activities of the Armenian sector in Wikipedia. Since 2014 the Armenian state has carried out a nationwide program called“ one Armenian- one article in Wikipedia”. It is supported by a variety of governmental agencies and their leaders. A number of ministers have announced that they are involved in this program and become the authors of the articles. Young people, mainly schoolchildren and students have increasingly been involved in the process of writing articles. Several times a year the most active of them are invited to special camps in the resort areas of the country. Along with having a rest they have been writing articles for Wikipedia for several hours a day in accordance with coordinated topics. By the way, the representatives of the diaspora are more and getting invited to such camps more often. This program makes it possible to increase the number of Armenian content in Wikipedia. So, after one of the
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