Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Wikimedia Österreich/January 2021


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January 2021
Report


WP20 birthday party AustriaEdit

Basics
  • in a nutshell: Online meeting of the Austrian community to celebrate Wikipedia's 20th birthday.
  • what we contributed to this activity: organization, technical infrastructure
Program
Community Support
Metrics
  • participants  : 27
  • diversity  : 7 (7 women)
More information
Event page on de.wikipedia

WP20 Global Birthday JauntEdit

Basics
  • in a nutshell: on January 15th, many Wikimedia communities worldwide celebrated Wikipedia's birthday in their own video conferences – this particular video conference brought some of these singular online meetings together just for 15 mins to say hello to each other and to sing Happy Birthday together, with communities from Austria, Benin, Chile, France, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Serbia
  • what we contributed to this activity: organization (in collaboration with WMPL within the context of the Volunteer Supporters Network)
Program
Community Support
Metrics
  • participants  : 87
  • diversity  : 75 (5 women AT, 19 foreign women, 51 foreign men)
More information
Event page on Meta

WP20 Secret SantaEdit

Basics
  • in a nutshell: A game of "Engerl Benger" (AT), "Wichteln" (DE) or "Secret Santa" where members of the community could place wishes for content on Wikimedia projects and fulfill others wishes.
  • volunteer organizers: Haeferl
  • what we contributed to this activity: Help with the organization, technical infrastructure and goodies for the participants.
Program
Community Support
Free Content
Metrics
  • participants  : 12
  • content pages   without media files and pages using media files: 62 (15 articles, 47 images)
  • diversity  : 4 (2 women, 2 foreigners)
More information
project page on de.wikipedia

Wikiversity Austria: Free Knowledge courseEdit

Basics
  • in a nutshell: regular course at the University of Vienna about Free Knowledge, including a Wikipedia course and Wikipedia editing by the students, held online (start date: 2020-10-16, end date: 2021-01-29)
  • volunteer organizers: Agruwie, Regiomontanus
  • what we contributed to this activity: conducting workshops and lectures, information material, video conference platform
Program
Awareness and Change
Metrics
  • participants  : 8
  • newly registered  : 7
  • content pages   without media files and pages using media files: 2 (2 improved dewiki articles)
  • diversity  : 5 (5 female students)
More information
Course pages in German-language Wikiversity

Wikiversity Austria: Public Relations courseEdit

Basics
  • in a nutshell: regular course at the University of Vienna about public relations, including a Wikipedia course and Wikipedia editing by the students, held online (start date: 2020-10-16, end date: 2021-01-29)
  • volunteer organizers: Agruwie, Regiomontanus
  • what we contributed to this activity: conducting workshops and lectures, information material, video conference platform
Program
Awareness and Change
Metrics
  • participants  : 10
  • newly registered  : 10
  • content pages   without media files and pages using media files: 5 (5 new dewiki articles)
  • diversity  : 8 (8 female students)
More information
Course pages in German-language Wikiversity

Global Strategy ConversationsEdit

Basics
  • in a nutshell: supporting the global strategy conversations by hosting and facilitating a session on the plans and selection process for a Global Council
  • what we contributed to this activity: staff time, facilitation
Program
Community Support
Metrics
  • participants  : 20
  • diversity  : 20 (non-Austrian)
More information
summary of the events on Meta

Organisational development expert group meeting 2021-01-07Edit

Basics
  • in a nutshell: video conference of one of WMAT's expert groups; ammendment to the internal rules of procedure regarding friendly spaces, planing the finalisation of the strategy process
  • volunteer organizers: Plani
  • what we contributed to this activity: facilitation, video conference tool
Program
Community Support
Metrics
  • participants  : 4
  • diversity  : 1 (1 Non-Austrian)
More information
WMAT's expert groups in members wiki (in German)
WMAT's rules of internal procedure (in German)


WikiDienstag 2021-01-26Edit

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: Regiomontanus
  • what we contributed to this activity: online platform, technical hosting
Program
Community Support
Metrics
  • participants  : 7
  • diversity  : 3 (3 women)
More information
WikiDienstag (in German)

WikiDienstag 2021-01-19Edit

Basics
  • in a nutshell: online event for librarians active in dewiki within the context of #1lib1ref (a project with a limited grasp in Austria because the #1lib1ref rules don't match with dewiki's rules).
  • what we contributed to this activity: organization, hosting, video conference platform
Program
Community Support
Awareness and Change
Metrics
  • participants  : 6
  • diversity  : 2 (1 woman, 1 foreigner)
More information
#1lib1ref in German-language Wikipedia

Supported media files and pages using media filesEdit

Basics
Program
Free Content
Metrics
  • new files  : 391
  • pages with files  : 150
  • quality  : 3 (featured: 1, quality: 2)
  • useful content  : 78
  • versatile content  : 226

– last checked: 2021-07-26

More information
Category:Supported by Wikimedia Österreich on Wikimedia Commons


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