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Statement by Sen. Barack Obama Commemorating the Armenian Genocide April 28, 2008
Mr. President, last week, we paused in remembrance of the Armenian genocide , which was carried out by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923. Nearly 2 million Armenians were deported, and approximately 1.5 million of those deported were killed.
It is imperative that we recognize the horrific acts carried out against the Armenian people as genocide and I will continue to stand with the Armenian American community in calling for the Government of Turkey to acknowledge it as such. The occurrence of the Armenian genocide is a widely documented fact supported by an overwhelming collection of historical evidence.
More can be found on Barak Obama's commitment to Armenian Genocide here:
http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Sen._Obama_vs._Speaker_Hastert:Integrity_vs._Immorality
ATTENTION: do NOT link to Lragir.am !!!
Կարեն Կարապետյան 8 weeks 4 days ago
Armik, I see that this is the first article/link that you posted on Khosq. Thanks!
There is just one minor note, that every khosq user should bare in mind: Do not link to Lragir.am articles!!!
Why not? Because Lragir.am website is structured in a such weird way that their artciles don't actually have a URL permalink. Every article on Lragir.am appears on the same address http://www.lragir.am/src/index.php?lang=eng#top , which is the link that you provided. And if someone clicks on your link a few days later, there will be a different article there.
What can be done? Please EDIT this article and remove the URL link. Leave it blank for Lragir.am articles!!!
In the future, an alternative soluton is to link to ArmTown.com articles -- they provide Lragir articles at http://www.armtown.com/news/en/lra and you can link to those article no problem!
Also remember that according to Khosq rules, the same URL link cannot be submitted twice!!! So if you try to submit a URL link that has already been submitted by someone else, khosq system will not let you do that and will tell you that it has already been submitted. The reason for this, is so that all votes go for the same scoop pointing at that link -- so that votes for every URL are properly cast -- all in one place.
That's also why we encourage that people link to each particular article, and not to the general website as a whole.
Is that better?
Armik 8 weeks 3 days ago
Here is a more specific reference to Barack Obama's commitment to recognizing Armenian Genocide, with a link to more details of his efforts in the US Senate.
Thanks Armik
Կարեն Կարապետյան 8 weeks 3 days ago
Yes, that's a lot better. Though this is a totally different article now -- poses some very minor ethical concerns about the previous 3 votes who voted for Lragir article ;) Users on Khosq vote (I hope) for the quality and relevance of content, not for opinion (otherwise we're gonna descend into groupthink populism). But anyway...
When we started re-designing Khosq as a portal to help Armenian news readers to share and discover interesting links, news and videos (and thus to connect all of the Armenian-related web), the first problem that we encountered was that Armenian web was very poorly designed and organised. Especially in diasporan websites. One can undersand the reason behind such unprofessionalism: most such websites are made by volunteer web-enthusiasts and activists who do it in spare time, rather than paid professionals.
To deal with this setback, we allowed a more lax submission policy:
A) people don't have to submit the URL link (which allows them to preproduce the article text locally on khosq.com),
B) there is no limitation to the body text of the article,
C) Rich-text formating (bold, italics, etc) is allowed
D) the articles can be edited until they are promoted to the front-page.
In effect, people can reproduce/reprint their favourite articles on Khosq.com if they want to (which, at least in technological terms, is a good practice as far as Armenian Web, News a Views are concerned). The obvious issue, with such modus operandi, however, is obviously the question of Copyright. I know that A1+, ArmeniaNow and many other Armenian news sites allow the reproduction of their articles, as long as they are referenced as the source (which Khosq does automatically). But khosq is just an open-publishing and voting platform and we decided to leave it up to the user's discretion to make sure that they do not violate any copyrights. (it's in the Submission Guidelines).
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