Let’s contribute to Wikipedia

This year we started organizing a Wikipedia course at the summer school. This course was held in order to train schoolchildren to write and edit articles in accordance with the requirements of the encyclopedia, to increase their interest in the native language.During the course, students got acquainted with the rules and requirements for writing articles. Edited articles are in the Kazakh language and linked to articles.


The head of the club, Aidar Toktargazin, a 12th grade student, used videos as a guide to write articles for Wikipedia. Alikhan Muratkazy, an active member of the club, shared his knowledge with the participants, such as uploading sources, uploading images, adding translations, working with dictionaries and media files.


Course participant Dayana Amanova: I think the Wikipedia Club provides great opportunities to develop writing and analysis skills. Our leader A. Ibragimova taught how to write an encyclopedic article. And we have put what we have learned into practice. These skills will be needed by students in the future, because it is always useful to be able to write short and concise articles. So far, we have started writing articles in the laboratory on the page. After a few edits, we get permission to write an article. Through this course, we learned about the Wikipedia site system and how it works, “ she said.


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