Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Wikimedia Österreich/December 2020

December 2020
Report

Wiki Loves Folklore WPWP

Basics in a nutshell: contest to promote the use of digital media files collected from Wiki Loves Folklore photography contests, photowalks organized by the Wikimedia community, on Wikipedia article pages what we contributed to this activity: fiscal sponsorship for Open Heritage Foundation	Program Community Support Free Content
Metrics participants : 22 content pages without media files and pages using media files: 2477 (improved pages)	More information → Wiki Loves Folklore WPWP Report

Wikicite: Improving Wikidata-Wikisource Integration

Basics in a nutshell: improving Wikidata-Wikisource integration (metadata and copyright information) what we contributed to this activity: fiscal sponsorship for Open Heritage Foundation	Program Community Support Free Content
Metrics participants : 3 diversity : 4 (4 foreigners)	More information → Wikicite grant application page

WP20 website and press campaign

Basics in a nutshell: a website to advertise the WP20 activities in Austria throughout the year 2021; on the day of the website release WMAT also sent out a press release to inform about the activities and emphazised on the 20th birthday on January 15th what we contributed to this activity: website content, Austrian WP20 symbols, press release	Program Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics participants : 4 diversity : 1 (1 woman)	More information → 20.wikipedia.at → Wikipedia 20 derivatives/AT on Wikimedia Commons

WP20 AT/CH/DE coordination group

Basics in a nutshell: regular online calls to update and inform the other chapters on the WP20 activities and progress. what we contributed to this activity: staff time	Program Community Support Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics participants : 6 diversity : 5 (1 woman, 3 foreign woman, 1 foreign man)

Statement on the Austrian Copyright Reform

Basics in a nutshell: statement by WMAT and Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU on the upcoming Austrian copyright reform volunteer organizers: Plani what we contributed to this activity: coordination	Program Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics participants : 4	More information → Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU

WMAT winter strategy meeting

Basics in a nutshell: online strategy meeting of WMAT's board and staff what we contributed to this activity: staff time and technical platform	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 10 diversity : 4 (2 women, 1 male foreigner, 1 female foreigner)	More information → 2020 board announcements

Wikimedia Commons expert group meeting 2020-12-01

Basics in a nutshell: video conference of one of WMAT's expert groups to decide which pictures to use for the annually produced calendar representing photographers supported by Wikimedia Austria and the contributions to WikiDaheim volunteer organizers: Agruwie what we contributed to this activity: facilitation, video conference tool	Program Community Support Free Content
Metrics participants : 4 diversity : 3 (3 women)	More information → WMAT's expert groups in members wiki (in German) → project page on Commons (in German)

Wikimedia Commons expert group meeting 2020-12-03

Basics in a nutshell: video conference of one of WMAT's expert groups to decide which pictures to use for the special calendar presenting some of the most prolific photographers supported by Wikimedia Austria volunteer organizers: Agruwie what we contributed to this activity: facilitation, video conference tool	Program Community Support Free Content
Metrics participants : 4 diversity : 3 (3 women)	More information → WMAT's expert groups in members wiki (in German) → project page on Commons (in German)

WikiCup 2020

Basics in a nutshell: annual year-long writing competition in the German-language Wikipedia what we contributed to this activity: prize trophy	Program Community Support Free Content
Metrics participants : 46 content pages without media files and pages using media files: 5484 (new or improved German language Wikipedia articles) quality : 25 (5 featured articles, 15 quality articles, 5 featured lists)	More information → WikiCup 2020 in the German-language Wikipedia

WikiDienstag 2020-12-01

Basics in a nutshell: regular community meet-up, usually in WMAT's office but due to the pandemic in the form of an online conference; this time with our monthly public Wikipedia consultation for newbies with experienced users volunteer organizers: Regio what we contributed to this activity: online platform, technical hosting	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 2	More information → Archive of WikiDienstag in 2020 (in German)

WikiDienstag 2020-12-15

Basics in a nutshell: regular meet-up, usually in WMAT's office but due to the pandemic in the form of an online conference; this time also the annual meeting of the community before the christmas holidays what we contributed to this activity: online platform, technical hosting	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 9	More information → project page on de.wikipedia → Archive of WikiDienstag in 2020 (in German)

Online workshop: Women in politics

Basics in a nutshell: meet-up of female Wikipedians focussing on women in politics; using WMAT's video conferencing platform volunteer organizers: Leserättin what we contributed to this activity: technical platform and hosting	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 8 diversity : 9 (9 foreign women)	More information → project page Wikipedia-Stuttgart on de.wikipedia

Netpolitical Evenings (2nd half-year report)

Basics

in a nutshell: We co-hosted 9 netpolitical evenings as of December 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 (in case it is used) is an in-kind donation by the local hackspace Metalab.
volunteer organizers: (see June Report)
what we contributed to this activity: coordination, PR/social media

Program

Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness

Metrics

participants : 130
diversity : 40 (women)

More information

Netzpolitischer Abend AT (in German)

RegiowikiAT (2nd half-year report)

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 : 514 (registered and non-blocked RegiowikiAT users with contributions, excluding Karl Gruber – source, date: 2020-12-31) newly registered : 9 (new user accounts on Wikipedia from 2020-01-01 to 2020-12-31 due to parallel registration on RegiowikiAT) Free content beyond Wikimedia projects : 868 (new articles from 2020-07-01 to 2020-12-31)	More information → regiowiki.at

Total number of articles (source: https://regiowiki.at/wiki/Regiowiki:Statistik):

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
12/2020	11.994

Der Brauereiführer (2nd half-year report)

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 : 14 (new articles from 2020-07-01 to 2020-12-31)	More information → brauereifuehrer.com

Total number of articles:

until	# of articles
12/2014	47
06/2015	62
12/2015	67
06/2016	153
12/2016	200
06/2017	223
12/2017	229
06/2018	235
12/2018	256
06/2019	262
12/2019	275
06/2020	291
12/2020	305

source: https://www.brauereifuehrer.com/wiki/index.php?title=Spezial%3AAlle+Seiten&from=&to=&namespace=0&hideredirects=1

Sustainable outreach network

Basics

in a nutshell: our newsletter and social media channels
what we contributed to this activity: staff time

Facebook: WMAT: 1,032, WLE: 320, Wikidaheim: 108, WMAT advent calendar: 91, Wikidata-AT: 50, Wikipedia-AT: 84; Twitter: WMAT: 1,767, Wikidata: 342; Youtube: 25; Instagram: 214; Newsletter: 363, MeetUp: 904= 5,300 accounts reached

Program

Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness

Supported media files and pages using media files

Basics

in a nutshell: supported media files uploaded on Wikimedia Commons from 2020-12-01 to 2020-12-31
volunteer organizers: Granada, Tsui, Herzi Pinki, Sandro Halank, Marcus Cyron; Krd, Svema, Pistenwolf, MarkusFelix and 2eight for Festivalsommer
what we contributed to this activity: equipment from our tech pool, accreditations for events, travel grants, post-processing software, skill transfer activities and/or support related to other activities