Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Wikimedia Österreich/July 2020

July 2020
Report

Open Letter: Internet Regulation

Basics

in a nutshell: The Austrian federal government planned a new internet regulation act; we were concerned that overly rigid deadlines backed by sanctions, as well as unilateral threats of punishment, could endanger community-based moderation models such as Wikimedia projects. We therefore joined epicenter.works in an open letter to two Austrian federal ministers.
volunteer organizers: UlliZ
what we contributed to this activity: co-drafting of the letter, press release

Program

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Basics in a nutshell: international video conference with Wikimedians exchanging their experiences with Wikimedian-in-Residence programs volunteer organizers: Layka100 what we contributed to this activity: organisation, video conference platform	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 8

Basics in a nutshell: writing contest for quality articles in German-language Wikipedia (Wikipedia:Schreibwettbewerb), held two times a year volunteer organizers: Ameisenigel, BotBln, Lutheraner, Medea7, Poupou l'quourouce, SpesBona, Tobias Nüssel (= members of the juries) what we contributed to this activity: prizes	Program Community Support Free Content
Metrics participants : 31 content pages without media files and pages using media files: 36 (new or improved German-language Wikipedia articles) quality : 16 (9 quality articles + 7 featured articles)	More information → Project Page on de.wikipedia

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 : 4 diversity : 5 (5 foreign women)	More information → project page Wikipedia-Stuttgart on de.wikipedia

Basics in a nutshell: considering the opportunities of a collaboration with an Austrian broadcasting archive, discussing which kind of radio contents can be useful for Wikipedia in which form what we contributed to this activity: technical platform and hosting, organisation	Program Free Content Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics participants : 3 diversity : 1 (1 foreigner)	More information → project page on de.wikipedia

Basics in a nutshell: video conference of one of WMAT's expert groups; planning the expert group's activities for the rest of the year volunteer organizers: UlliZ what we contributed to this activity: facilitation, video conference tool	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 5 diversity : 2 (1 women, 1 foreigner)	More information → WMAT's expert groups in members wiki (in German)

Basics in a nutshell: video conference of one of WMAT's expert groups; discussing and planning the pool of equipment for picture production and publishing volunteer organizers: Agruwie what we contributed to this activity: facilitation, video conference tool, equipment for photography	Program Community Support Free Content
Metrics participants : 2 diversity : 3 (3 women)	More information → WMAT's expert groups in members wiki (in German) → the collective portal of WMAT, WMDE and WMCH for available technical equipment (in German) → WMAT's list of available technical equipment (in German)

Basics in a nutshell: video conference of one of WMAT's expert groups; general update on global Wikimedia developments and inviting new expert group members from other countries volunteer organizers: Philip Kopetzky what we contributed to this activity: facilitation, video conference tool	Program Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics participants : 6 diversity : 2 (2 foreigners)	More information → WMAT's expert groups in members wiki (in German)

Basics

in a nutshell: supported media files uploaded on Wikimedia Commons from 2020-07-01 to 2020-07-31
volunteer organizers: Duke of W4, Haeferl, Isiwal, Henry Kellner, Clemens Mosch, Naturpuur, TheRunnerUp, Tsui, Johannes Maximilian; 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