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You need to request an account in order to edit or add pages to Armeniapedia.org. Anyone willing to help is welcome to join. We need people who are simply willing to start going through all the pages of the site and bring better organization to the information, people who can add new information from books and articles, people who can rewrite and edit texts into cohesive articles and people who can translate from Armenian to English. Please, email armeniapedia ((at)) gmail.com know if you are willing to help!
Help Editing Armeniapedia.org
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If you have a specific question for the administrator, just ask Raffi
How to Help Armeniapedia.org
- One of the biggest helps would be to help get this site linked to from other Armenian sites, as well as non-Armenian web link directories so that more people can find the site.
- Another way to help is if you can translate from Armenian to English. If so, take a stab at the following pages: Category:Needs Translation to English
- Pages needing editing to become "fair use". In otherwords they contain copyright material that should be rewritten to only use the factual/fair use portions, so that they are ok to use. See the list.
Eventually it would be nice to have an automated way of tracking which pages need:
- Pages needing formatting work
- Pages needing more content
- Pages needing photos
- Pages needing editing
Another big step that needs to be taken is to upgrade the script, and perhaps make some alterations. It would be great if certain articles which should have the same content as Wikipedia (for example, Duduk) could automatically be crosslinked to Wikipedia in order to automatically import the pages from there every so often, and to redirect those wanting to edit the page to wikipedia.
Banner and Linking
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<a href="http://www.armeniapedia.org"><img src="http://www.armeniapedia.org/images/d/dd/Mainlogo.png" border=0></A>
It will display the image on the top left corner of this window, and link it to Armeniapedia's main page. Thanks!
How to add an Armeniapedia search box to your site
Paste the code below this paragraph into the code of your website or blog, and an Armeniapedia.org searchbox will allow your visitors to search for anything related to Armenia. Search results come up in a new window, so you don't lose any visitors.
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Live examples
You can see an example of the search box in action on: