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More than 3000 kilometers in less than two weeks, 40 presentations around eight different municipalities, 10 workshops, hundreds of working hours and many sleepless nights are now paid off with 78 new articles about Kosovo and 1450 photo published in Wikipedia.
We started the second edition of Wiki Academy Kosovo strongly believing that our mission will be accomplished with the help of our community. We were right.
More than 500 applications were received in four weeks of application period for the article contest and after a careful review 270 applicants were invited to become participants of the Academy and write in teams with the help of our 12 mentors, 78 great articles. In the same time, 98 photographers posted more than 1450 pictures in Wikimedia Commons as part of the photo contest of the Academy.
Three months after, all those who made this an outstanding academy gathered in the Red Hall of the Youth Palace in Prishtina to celebrate their success. Online Content in Kosovo was never better.
Although the ceremony and the awards given marked the peak of this project, for sure were not the most important part for the new wikipedians. During the camps, it was great to know that a lot of them did not actually know that prizes would be given to the best of the academy. For our participants, the strongest incentive to partake was the mission of this project – making real Kosovo visible in the internet. This is amazing and all that matters.
Listed below you can see the winning articles and pictures for each category:
Best Article for Wikipedia
1st place: Historical monuments in Prishtina
2nd place: Rugova mountains
3d place: Health Care in Kosovo
Gjakova
1st place: The Hadum Mosque
2nd place: Culture of Gjakova
3d place: Historical Monuments in Gjakova
Ferizaj
1st place: History of Ferizaj
2nd place: Demographics of Ferizaj
3d place: Archaeology of Ferizaj
Shterpca
1st place: Brezovica Ski Resort
2nd place: Historical Monuments in Štrpce
2nd place: Tourism in Shterpca
Peja
1st place: Rugova mountains
2nd place: Peja Bath
3d place: Events and festivals in Peja
Prizren
1st place: List of monuments in Prizren
2nd place: Orthodox Seminary of Prizren(Bogoslovija)
3d place: Women of Krusha e Madhe
Prishtina
1st place: Historical monuments in Prishtina
2nd place: Health Care in Kosovo
3d place: Tourism in Prishtina
Mitrovica
1st place: Vushtrria
2nd place: Monuments in Mitrovica
3d place: Archaeological sites of Mitrovica Region
Gjilan
1st place: Flaka e Janarit
2nd place: Economy of Gjilan
3d place: Notable People of Gjilan
Significant contribution
Pristina International Airport
Best Pictures of Wiki Academy II
1st place: Valltaret – Agron Beqiri
2nd place: Jumping from the Fshejt Bridge – Shkelzen Rexha
3d place: Djathi i Sharrit – Violeta Myftari
Best overall from Peja
Arben Islami
Best contributions from Gjakova
1st place: Shkelzen Rexha
2nd place: Nëntor Oseku
Best contributions from Mitrovica
Agron Beqiri
Best contributions overall
1st place: Violeta Myftari
2nd place: Shkelzen Rexha
3d place: Arben Llapashtica