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This Month in GLAM – Volume VIII, Issue XI, November 2018

Armenia report

Singing Wikipedia; Photographs by Vahan Kochar

Singing Wikipedia

In the frames of its "Preservation of culture" program, Wikimedia Armenia started a new project called "Singing Wikipedia". Nine Armenian popular and folk acapella songs have been recorded and uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons. The songs were performed by a Wikimedia Armenia volunteer and a folk singer Anoush Stepanian. Acapella performance made it possible to publish the songs under free license, as they are either folk songs or their authors have lived and worked in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In the second stage of the project the editors are going to create and improve the articles of those folk songs on Armenian Wikipedia, complete their WikiData pages, thus giving an opportunity to create articles in various languages as well.

Photographs by Vahan Kochar

The Armenian famous photographer - Vahan Kochar, has begun cooperation with Wikimedia Armenia, as a part of the popularization of Armenian photographs and Armenian photography history. Vahan Kochar has a big photo collection and has written two books on Armenian photography history. As a result of the collaboration, Vahan Kochar started uploading photos of famous Armenians from his own collection to Wikimedia Commons. The photographs will be used in many Wikipedia articles. The project is ongoing.

Zaven Sargsyan, author: Vahan Kochar
Vahan and Andranik Kocars, author: Vahan Kochar
Andranik Kocar, author: Vahan Kochar
Aleksandr Harutiunyan, author: Vahan Kochar