Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Wikimedia Österreich/June 2018

June 2018
Report

Austrian community survey 2018

Basics in a nutshell: yearly anonymous online survey concerning WMAT's standing in the Austrian Wikimedia communities what we contributed to this activity: set-up, promotion, evaluation	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 77 community motivation : 83 %	More information → Results in members wiki

Community exchange visit from Armenia

Basics in a nutshell: Gardmanahay won a journey to Vienna for winning a writing competition about Austria in the Armenian Wikipedia. The Viennese community joined him to visit the Viennese historic city center, Schönbrunn Palace, Schönbrunn Zoo, and the Vienna Woods. what we contributed to this activity: organiziation, meals, hotel	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 14 diversity : 7 (6 women, 1 foreigner)

Alpenforum meeting in Bern

Basics in a nutshell: meeting of WikiAlpenforum, a cooperation project of Wikipedians in the Alpine countries, in Bern, Switzerland. what we contributed to this activity: travel costs for 2 Wikimedians	Program Community Support Free Content
Metrics participants : 2	More information → Images on Wikimedia Commons → Projekt WikiAlpenforum (WAF) in the German-language Wikipedia → Report in our memberswiki in German

WMAT General Assembly

Basics

in a nutshell: WMAT's general assembly with elections of the board, the auditors and the good governance committee. WMAT also passed substantial changes to the bylaws so they match our reality in terms of roles and responsibilities and also include inclusive, gender-neutral language in the bylaws and a link to our friendly space policy, so these two documents conflict as little as possible.
what we contributed to this activity: coordination, venue, catering, travel costs for board members

Program

Community Support

Metrics

participants : 22
diversity : 6 (5 women, 1 male foreigner)

More information

→ Minutes in German

→ Images on Wikimedia Commons

WMAT's 10th Birthday Summer Party

Basics in a nutshell: 10 years anniversary celebration with our community, like-minded communities, and partners of the last ten years what we contributed to this activity: coordination, venue, catering	Program Community Support Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics participants : 50 diversity : 15 (13 women, 2 male foreigners)	More information → Event page in German

Night of Science

Basics in a nutshell: Wikipedia booth and writing/photography project at Night of Science, Frankfurt, Germany what we contributed to this activity: travel grant for 1 Austrian participant	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 1	More information → Project page in the German-language Wikipedia → Images on Wikimedia Commons

wiki ♥ vielfalt Edit-a-thon

Basics in a nutshell: monthly event series for inclusive community building in Linz, Upper Austria what we contributed to this activity: organization (incl. travel costs for 2 staff members), snacks and drinks, give-aways	Program Community Support Free Content Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics participants : 8 content pages without media files and pages using media files: 2 diversity : 4 (4 women)	More information → Project page in the German language Wikipedia

Genealogenstammtisch Wilhelmsburg

Basics in a nutshell: introduction to Wikimedia projects at regular meet-up of Lower Austrian genealogists in Wilhelmsburg volunteer organizers: Manfred Kuzel what we contributed to this activity: information material, travel costs for 1 Wikimedian	Program Community Support Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics participants : 40	More information → Report in members wiki (in German)

Wikipedia workshop at Volkskundemuseum

Basics in a nutshell: Wikipedia workshop for museum staff; follow-up to KulTour Volkskundemuseum what we contributed to this activity: organization	Program Community Support Free Content Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics participants : 18 newly registered : 1 content pages without media files and pages using media files: 2 (new Wikipedia article de:Telfer Schleicherlaufen, improved Wikipedia article de:Österreichisches Museum für Volkskunde) diversity : 16 (16 women) retention : too early to collect data	More information → Images on Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia ED Meeting in Vienna

Basics

in a nutshell: the affiliate EDs and WMF staff met in Vienna in order to prepare input for phase 2 of the strategy process. This was necessary as most EDs will not attend Wikimania in Cape Town this year, so a meeting in the context of an international event was not an option this time. Most EDs will participate in the various working groups and during the meeting common challenges and process questions were discussed. WMAT served as a host and coordinator.
what we contributed to this activity: coordination, facilitation, venue, catering.

Program

Community Support

Metrics

participants : 15

Press conference with Katherine Maher

Basics

in a nutshell: on 1 July, Austria took over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union. It means that Austria will lead the trilogue negotiations of the EU copyright reform. Thus the Austrian Government and the Parliament will negotiate the whole package, including “upload filters” (Art. 13), the press publishers right (Art. 11), and the exceptions that Wikimedia is advocating for. WMAT used the fortunate timing of Katherine Maher's visit in order to hold a press event and to raise awareness for the issue, together with partners from the Austrian netpolitical scene.

what we contributed to this activity: coordination, press release concept and distribution, venue, catering.

Program

Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness

Metrics

participants : 20

More information

→ Announcement on wikimedia.at (in German)

→ Photos and audio recordings on Commons

WikiDienstag 2018-06-05

Basics in a nutshell: regular community meet-up in WMAT's office; this time the monthly public Wikipedia consultation for newbies with experienced users volunteer organizers: Gugerell what we contributed to this activity: equipped room in our office, snacks/drinks	Program Community Support Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics participants : 7	More information → WikiDienstag in the German-language Wikipedia

WikiDienstag 2018-06-12

Basics in a nutshell: regular community meet-up in WMAT's office; this time preparing for Wikimania 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

WikiDienstag 2018-06-19

Basics in a nutshell: regular community meet-up in WMAT's office; this time planning of photography projects volunteer organizers: Ailura what we contributed to this activity: equipped room in our office, snacks/drinks	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 4	More information → WikiDienstag in the German-language Wikipedia

WikiDienstag 2018-06-26

Basics in a nutshell: regular community meet-up in WMAT's office; this time summer barbecue with WMAT staff what we contributed to this activity: equipped room in our office, snacks/drinks	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 14	More information → WikiDienstag in the German-language Wikipedia

Ruby Habits meetings

Basics

in a nutshell: As a result of our networking activities with like-minded tech communities around the Wikimedia Hackathon, we started a cooperation with the Viennese coder group Ruby Habits, who now regularly use our office for their community meetings. As a result they now include Wikimedia projects in their activities and some community members became part of our Wikidata Austria group and activities.
volunteer organizers: Ramon
what we contributed to this activity: venue

Program

Community Support

Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness

Metrics

participants : 50
diversity : 20 (19 women, 1 male foreigner)

More information

→ Ruby Habits homepage

Netpolitical Evenings

Basics

in a nutshell: We co-hosted 6 netpolitical evenings as of June 2018, with an average of 50 participants, covering topics from EU advocacy to state of the art research around 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 is an in-kind donation by the local hackspace metalab.

volunteer organizers: NetzPAT volunteer team:

Roland Alton
Meral Akin-Hecke
Alexander Baratsits
Konrad Becker
Tano Bojankin
Paolo Budroni
Wolfie Christl

Andreas Czák
Andreas Demmelbauer
Leonhard Dobusch
Helge Fahrenberger
Sonja Fischbauer
Claudia Garád
Herbert Gnauer

Ingrid Gogl
Werner Illsinger
Stefan Kasberger
Sylvia Kuba
Christoph Lampert
Nicole Lieger
Thomas Lohninger

Joachim Losehand
Astrid Mager
Katja Mayer
Stefan Pawel
Sylvia Petrovic-Majer
Magdalena Reiter
Us(c)hi Reiter

Sarah Spiekermann
Felix Stalder
Paul Stepan
Brigitte Theissl
Barbara Wimmer
Michela Vignoli

what we contributed to this activity: coordination, PR/social media

Program

Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness

Metrics

participants : 300

More information

→ Netzpolitischer Abend AT (in German)

Supported media files and pages using media files

Basics

in a nutshell: supported media files uploaded on Wikimedia Commons from 2018-06-01 to 2018-06-30
volunteer organizers: 1971markus, Braveheart, DerHexer, Geiserich77, Granada, Herzi Pinki, Isiwal, Karl Gruber, Sandro Halank, Steindy, Thomas Ledl, 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