Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Wikimedia Österreich/June 2020

June 2020
Report

WMAT general assembly and elections edit

Basics in a nutshell: WMAT's general assembly with elections of the board, the auditors and the good governance committee; both the assembly and the (earlier) elections were held online for the first time what we contributed to this activity: coordination, technical solutions	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 48 (active voters)	More information → Project page in members wiki (in German)

Community Survey edit

Basics in a nutshell: yearly anonymous online survey concerning WMAT's standing in the Austrian Wikimedia communities what we contributed to this activity: set-up, promotion, evaluation	Program Community Support Free Content Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics participants : 50	More information → Results

Selected results from all previous community surveys

Which of the following groups support you in your work in Wikipedia and/or other Wikimedia projects?

To what extent does this statement apply to you: I was supported by Wikimedia Austria directly and/or participated in activities supported by Wikimedia Austria (competitions, events ...) which motivated me to continue contributing content to Wikipedia and/or another Wikimedia project.

International Archives Week edit

Basics in a nutshell: multilingual campaign around the International Archives Week, led by WMCH, together with WMAT and WMDE, with a call to improve the presence of archives on Wikimedia projects what we contributed to this activity: co-organisation	Program Free Content Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics participants : 18 (users enrolled in outreach dashboard) content pages without media files and pages using media files: 20 (9 new dewiki articles, 1 new enwiki article, 10 improved dewiki articles)	More information → Campaign page on Meta → Outreach Dashboard → International Council on Archives: International Archives Week 2020

Wikiversity: Europaforum Wachau edit

Basics in a nutshell: university course in cooperation of the University of Vienna and Wikiversity Austria, the students learned about Wikipedia and writing articles volunteer organizers: Agruwie, Regiomontanus, K@rl what we contributed to this activity: consultation and visit/lecture by WMAT staff, technical help for the online conferencing	Program Free Content Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics participants : 20 newly registered : 20 content pages without media files and pages using media files: 3 (articles on de.wikipedia: Kate Marian Kenski, Patrick Donges, Kathleen Hall Jamieson) + 1 (improved: Europa-Forum Wachau) diversity : 4 (4 female students)	More information → project page at Wikiversity Austria

Wartungsbausteinwettbewerb Spring 2020 edit

Basics in a nutshell: seasonal writing competition to reduce cleanup messages in articles. volunteer organizers: HvW, Gripweed what we contributed to this activity: prizes	Program Community Support Free Content
Metrics participants : 45 content pages without media files and pages using media files: 870 (improved content pages on de.wikipedia)	More information → project page on de.wikipedia

Meet the board candidates online edit

Basics in a nutshell: online meeting with the candidates for the board of Wikimedia Austria what we contributed to this activity: organization, hosting, platform	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 15	More information → project page on de.wikipedia (archive of WikiDienstag)

WomenEdit online meeting 2020-06-03 edit

Basics in a nutshell: regular meet-up of female authors mostly from Germany, now using WMAT's technical platform for video conferencing and inviting participants from everywhere volunteer organizers: quirl what we contributed to this activity: technical platform and hosting	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 5	More information → project page Wikipedia:WomenEdit on de.wikipedia

Online workshop: women in politics (part 2) edit

Basics in a nutshell: meet-up of female Wikipedians focussing on women in politics; now using WMAT's video conferencing platform volunteer organizers: Leserättin what we contributed to this activity: technical platform and hosting	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 6 diversity : 7 (7 women)	More information → project page Wikipedia-Stuttgart

Online WikiDienstag 2020-06-09 edit

Basics in a nutshell: WMAT's weekly tuesday meet-up of the Austrian and as a video conference also the whole German speaking community; further development of the common page about video conferences for all German speaking communities on de.wikipedia what we contributed to this activity: organization, hosting	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 5	More information → WikiDienstag on de.wikipedia → project page Wikipedia:Online-Treffen

Online WikiDienstag 2020-06-16 edit

Basics in a nutshell: WMAT's weekly tuesday meet-up of the Austrian and as a video conference also the whole German speaking community; further development of the common page about video conferences for all German speaking communities on de.wikipedia what we contributed to this activity: organization, hosting	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 4	More information → WikiDienstag on de.wikipedia → project page Wikipedia:Online-Treffen

Online WikiDienstag 2020-06-23 edit

Basics in a nutshell: WMAT's weekly tuesday meet-up of the Austrian and as a video conference also the whole German speaking community; further development of the common page about video conferences for all German speaking communities on de.wikipedia what we contributed to this activity: organization, hosting	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 4	More information → WikiDienstag on de.wikipedia → project page Wikipedia:Online-Treffen

Online WikiDienstag 2020-06-30 edit

Basics in a nutshell: WMAT's weekly tuesday meet-up of the Austrian and as a video conference also the whole German speaking community; this time dedicated to the beginning of Wikimedia Austria's annual photography competition WikiDaheim on July 1st. volunteer organizers: Braveheart what we contributed to this activity: organization, hosting	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 6	More information → wikidaheim.at

Supported media files and pages using media files edit

Basics

in a nutshell: supported media files uploaded on Wikimedia Commons from 2020-06-01 to 2020-06-30
volunteer organizers: Tsui, Johann Jaritz, Naturpuur, BugWarp; Krd, Svema, Pistenwolf, MarkusFelix and 2eight for Festivalsommer
what we contributed to this activity: equipment from our tech pool, travel grants, post-processing software, skill transfer activities and/or support related to other activities

Program

Free Content

Metrics

new files : 2434
pages with files : 152
quality : 11 (quality: 11)
useful content : 74
versatile content : 167

– last checked: 2020-07-13

More information

→ Category:Supported by Wikimedia Österreich on Wikimedia Commons

Netpolitical Evenings edit

Basics

in a nutshell: We co-hosted 6 netpolitical evenings as of June 2020 (since March as online events), with an average of 50 participants, covering topics from EU advocacy to state of the art research around AI, open data or e-privacy. The event also has a loyal remote audience via live stream and broadcasting of various free radio stations across Austria. In addition, it became a valuable platform to find partners, participants, or multipliers for WMAT activities. The initiative is mainly volunteer run and cost neutral, the venue is an in-kind donation by the local hackspace Metalab.
volunteer organizers: NetzPAT volunteer team:

Roland Alton
Meral Akin-Hecke
Alexander Baratsits
Konrad Becker
Tano Bojankin
Paolo Budroni
Wolfie Christl

Andreas Czák
Andreas Demmelbauer
Leonhard Dobusch
Helge Fahrenberger
Sonja Fischbauer
Claudia Garád
Herbert Gnauer

Ingrid Gogl
Werner Illsinger
Stefan Kasberger
Sylvia Kuba
Christoph Lampert
Nicole Lieger
Thomas Lohninger

Joachim Losehand
Astrid Mager
Katja Mayer
Stefan Pawel
Sylvia Petrovic-Majer
Magdalena Reiter
Us(c)hi Reiter

Sarah Spiekermann
Felix Stalder
Paul Stepan
Brigitte Theissl
Barbara Wimmer
Michela Vignoli

what we contributed to this activity: coordination, PR/social media

Program

Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness

Metrics

participants : 300

More information

→ Netzpolitischer Abend AT (in German)

Project Social Topics on Wikipedia (half-year report) edit

Basics

in a nutshell: Together with Caritas Österreich / Caritas Wien, one of the biggest volunteer organisations in the German-speaking world, we launched this project in November 2019: a group of Wikipedia newbies contributes and improves content about social topics on Wikipedia. At the heart of the project are regular offline meetings, which had to be discontinued in March.
what we contributed to this activity: concept, coordination; equipped room in our office, snacks/drinks

Program

Community Support

Free Content

Metrics

participants : 10
content pages : 694 (124 Wikipedia articles created, 560 Wikipedia articles improved, 10 uploaded files; from 2020-01-01 to 2020-06-30)

More information

→ Project page in German-language Wikipedia

→ Outreach dashboard

→ Images on Wikimedia Commons

RegiowikiAT (half-year report) edit

Basics in a nutshell: a wiki with CC BY-SA 3.0 licensed German-language content about Austria, serves as free knowledge hub for encyclopedic articles not relevant or suitable for Wikipedia volunteer organizers: Karl Gruber what we contributed to this activity: legal and technical website hosting and consulting; information/promotion material	Program Community Support Free Content
Metrics participants : 406 (registered and non-blocked RegiowikiAT users with contributions, excluding Karl Gruber – source, date: 2020-06-30) Free content beyond Wikimedia projects : 941 (new articles from 2020-01-01 to 2020-06-30)	More information → regiowiki.at

Total number of articles:

until	# of articles
12/2014	3,783
06/2015	5,324
12/2015	5,542
06/2016	5,910
12/2016	6,206
06/2017	7,042
12/2017	7,713
06/2018	8,312
12/2018	8,880
06/2019	9,781
12/2019	10,185
06/2020	11,126

source: https://regiowiki.at/wiki/Regiowiki:Statistik

Der Brauereiführer (half-year report) edit

Basics in a nutshell: a wiki with CC BY-SA 3.0 licensed German-language content about breweries in Austria volunteer organizers: Geiserich77 what we contributed to this activity: financial support for website hosting	Program Community Support Free Content
Metrics Free content beyond Wikimedia projects : 16 (new articles from 2020-01-01 to 2020-06-30)	More information → brauereifuehrer.com