Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Wikimedia Österreich/March 2020

March 2020
Report

International Women's Day edit

Basics in a nutshell: workshop and edit-a-thon focussing on women's biographies in Wikipedia volunteer organizers: Haeferl what we contributed to this activity: equipped room in our office, snacks/drinks	Program Community Support Free Content
Metrics participants : 6 content pages without media files and pages using media files: 1 new article (Frieda Nödl); corrections and additions in several other biographies diversity : 5 (5 women)	More information → projekt page on de.wikipedia → project page and registration on wikimedia.at → images on commons

Basics

in a nutshell: first strategy meeting of the year (held online) to review and update our budget (closure of the financial year, audit), to prepare a new staff structure due to our ED's maternity leave, report to the board on the movement strategy process and preparing for the year 2020 including the online general assembly with online voting
what we contributed to this activity: video conference tool, staff time

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Basics in a nutshell: meeting of Wikipedians who are working on collaborations with public broadcasters what we contributed to this activity: travel costs for two participants from Austria	Program Free Content Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics participants : 2 (supported by WMAT)	More information → project page on de.wikipedia

Basics in a nutshell: WLM International team meeting in San Francisco, our ED joined remotely for parts of the meeting in order to discuss the current plans and budgets and to plan the future of the collaboration and grantmaking. She also provided input on movement strategy particularly the latest round of recommendations what we contributed to this activity: staff time	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 9	More information → wikilovesmonuments.org

Basics in a nutshell: annual seasonal writing competition on de.wikipedia focussing on winter sports volunteer organizers: Toni what we contributed to this activity: organizing prizes from the Austrian Skiing Federation	Program Community Support Free Content
Metrics participants : 11 content pages without media files and pages using media files: 271 (new articles and lists on de.wikipedia)	More information → project page on de.wikipedia

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 : 36 quality : 449 (improved content pages on de.wikipedia)	More information → project page on de.wikipedia

Basics in a nutshell: monthly get-together of the Upper Austrian Wikimedia community in Linz, Upper Austria. what we contributed to this activity: project lead, travel costs for staff	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 5 diversity : 3 (3 women)	More information → Wikipedia:Oberösterreich/Wikipedia Café in German-language Wikipedia

Basics in a nutshell: coordination meeting with other netpolitical organisations and partners in order to create a coordinated input and response to the plans of the new government regarding transpostion of the EU copyright regulation into national law what we contributed to this activity: staff time	Program Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics participants : 6 diversity : 2 (Non-male, non-Austrian)

Basics in a nutshell: Queering Wikipedia is the first conference organized by the Wikimedia LGBT+ Usergroup, WMAT acts as fiscal sponsor for this conference. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic the conference was postponed to 2021. volunteer organizers: Kawayashu and Thomas Schallhart what we contributed to this activity: organization and coordination	Program Community Support Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics participants : 16 (Coordination team, communication team, program committee, scholarship committee, logistic team) diversity : 18 (LGBT+ community)	More information → Queering Wikipedia project page on Meta

Basics in a nutshell: this time with the monthly public Wikipedia consultation for newbies with experienced users volunteer organizers: Nadine 13131 what we contributed to this activity: equipped room in our office, snacks/drinks	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 3	More information → WikiDienstag in the German-language Wikipedia

Basics in a nutshell: regular community meet-up in WMAT's office; this time meeting of the Social Topics on Wikipedia project team what we contributed to this activity: equipped room in our office, snacks/drinks	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 7	More information → WikiDienstag in the German-language Wikipedia → Social Topics on Wikipedia project in the German-language Wikipedia

Basics

in a nutshell: supported media files uploaded on Wikimedia Commons from 2020-03-01 to 2020-03-31
volunteer organizers: Isiwal, DerHexer, Naturpuur, Sandro Halank, Robert Heilinger, Stepro; Krd, Svema, Pistenwolf, MarkusFelix and 2eight for Festivalsommer
what we contributed to this activity: equipment from our tech pool, post-processing software, skill transfer activities and/or support related to other activities