Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Wikimedia Österreich/January 2021

January 2021
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WP20 birthday party Austria

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

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)

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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

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

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

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

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)

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)

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

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in a nutshell: supported media files uploaded on Wikimedia Commons from 2021-01-01 to 2021-01-31
volunteer organizers: Granada, Robert Heilinger, Sandro Halank, Isiwal, TheRunnerUp, 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