Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Wikimedia Österreich/January 2020

January 2020
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Austrian Award for Free Knowledge

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in a nutshell: For the first time Wikimedia Austria awarded the Austrian Award for Free Knowledge. The Association Open Knowledge Maps was awarded the price in the category for active citizenship for free knowledge. Institution of the year 2020 is the FWF Wissenschaftsfond (science fond) and Prof. Hermann Maurer was awarded with the special category for his life time achievements. The ceremony was part of the Vienna Ball of Sciences on January 25th at the Vienna City Hall. The awards were handed out by Vienna's mayor and governor Michael Ludwig and the Minister of Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology Leonore Gewessler.
what we contributed to this activity: hosting and design for website freieswissen.net, award medals and certificates, organization

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Basics in a nutshell: award ceremony "Best of 2019" at Hofburg palace for WikiDaheim, Monuments Day, and Denkmal-Cup competitions and kick-off event for the new year what we contributed to this activity: organization in cooperation with Federal Monuments Office, catering, prizes	Program Community Support Free Content Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics participants : 43	More information → Page in members wiki → Images on Wikimedia Commons → wikidaheim.at

Basics in a nutshell: university course at the Department of Communication at the University of Vienna, about Free Knowledge, with Wikiversity and Wikipedia editing as integral part volunteer organizers: Agruwie, JoKalliauer, Regiomontanus what we contributed to this activity: co-organisation, information material	Program Community Support Free Content Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics participants : 19 newly registered : 18 content pages without media files and pages using media files: 7 (7 new dewiki articles) diversity : 11 (11 female students)	More information → Course page in German-language Wikiversity → Course description, University of Vienna (in German)

Basics in a nutshell: Austria got a new government and together with our partners in the netpolitical sphere we organized a coordination meeting to analyse the government program regarding common challenging (e.g. transposition of EU copyright reform, plans to prohibit anonymous handles on media platforms etc) what we contributed to this activity: staff time	Program Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics participants : 12 diversity : 3 (female)

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 : 6 diversity : 3 (3 women)	More information → Wikipedia:Oberösterreich/Wikipedia Café in German-language Wikipedia

Basics in a nutshell: workshop and peer-to-peer mentoring to support people from marginalized groups to become tech conference speakers volunteer organizers: Ramon what we contributed to this activity: venue and drinks	Program Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics participants : 6 diversity : 6 (non-male, non-Austrian, ethnic minorities)	More information → Event page → Twitter

Basics in a nutshell: panel on open data in Austria and Europe what we contributed to this activity: staff time (Executive Director as panelist)	Program Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics participants : 65 diversity : 23 (non-male, non-Austrian)	More information → Event page and summary in German

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in a nutshell: sporadic Wikidata volunteers meeting at the WMAT office
volunteer organizers: JeanFred
what we contributed to this activity: coordination, equipped room in our office, snacks/drinks

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Basics in a nutshell: regular community meet-up in WMAT's office; this time open meet-up after Christmas break volunteer organizers: Funke 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: presentation of contents from a workshop in Germany about image licensing and personality rights, additionally about specific issues in Austria, and Q&A with the expert present. volunteer organizers: Ailura, Agruwie, UlliZ what we contributed to this activity: equipped room in our office, snacks/drinks; travel support for the participants of the workshop in Germany	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 8 diversity : 3 (3 women)	More information → WikiDienstag in the German-language Wikipedia

Basics in a nutshell: regular community meet-up in WMAT's office; this time preparing an edit-a-thon for International Women's Day volunteer organizers: Ailura what we contributed to this activity: equipped room in our office, snacks/drinks	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 5	More information → WikiDienstag in the German-language Wikipedia

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in a nutshell: supported media files uploaded on Wikimedia Commons from 2020-01-01 to 2020-01-31
volunteer organizers: Martin Rulsch, Naturpuur, Sandro Halank, Tsui; 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