Photo project at Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art depotedit
Basics
in a nutshell: following a visit and an edit-a-thon at the museum one year ago we now had the opportunity to organize a photo project at the depot to take pictures of objects there
what we contributed to this activity: organization, photo equipment, 1 staff
WAF on Tour: 300 years principality of Liechtensteinedit
Basics
in a nutshell: workshop in Liechtenstein hosted by WMCH, for better Wikipedia/Commons content about the principality of Liechtenstein, with Wikimedians from from Germany, Switzerland and Austria
Wikipedia for Peace at Europride 2019 in Viennaedit
Basics
in a nutshell: support of the Wikipedia4Peace spin-off, very productive international multi-day editing event in Vienna on LGBT+ issues, additionally meetings on movement strategy and future development of the LGBT+ user group (possibilities of staff support, conference in 2020)
what we contributed to this activity: travel costs for participants without other affiliate support, administrative support, visa support, coordination, catering, venue
113 new articles, 5 improved articles; in 10 language versions (ar, de, en, es, fa, fr, it, myv, nl, sr)
Wikidata
21 new Wikidata items, 9 improved Wikidata items
Wikimedia Commons
1112 new media files on Wikimedia Commons, 124 distinct images used in main namespace of Wikimedia projects, with 134 total image usages
last checked: 2019-06-28
Wikiversity: Digital Media in History and Political Educationedit
Basics
in a nutshell: university course by professors Andrea Brait, Christopher Treiblmayr and Christian Wagner at the University of Vienna, with students learning Wikipedia editing and writing articles together
what we contributed to this activity: consultation and visit/lecture by WMAT staff
content pages without media files and pages using media files: 3 (2 short new dewiki articles at the beginning, 1 major improved dewiki article for the final)
in a nutshell: site visit by the WMF with the obligatory due dilligence check which gives us the opportunity to showcase our programs and projects and WMF staff to understand our local context better. This time we had a focus on our diversity-related projects (e.g. wiki♥vielfalt, EuroPride) and our governance reform (expert groups)
what we contributed to this activity: staff and volunteer time, organisation and preparation, catering
in a nutshell: WMAT's general assembly with elections of the board, the auditors and the good governance committee. Also discussing topics like the growth of number of members and the regulations of future elections of the board.
what we contributed to this activity: coordination, venue, catering, travel costs for board members
in a nutshell: a wiki with CC BY-SA 3.0 licensed German-language content about Austria, serves as free knowledge hub for encyclopedic articles not relevant or suitable for Wikipedia
in a nutshell: We co-hosted 6 netpolitical evenings as of June 2019, with an average of 50 participants, covering topics from EU advocacy to state of the art research around AI, open data or 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
Selected results from all previous community surveys
Which of the following groups support you in your work in Wikipedia and/or other Wikimedia projects?
To what extent does this statement apply to you: I was supported by Wikimedia Austria directly and/or participated in activities supported by Wikimedia Austria (competitions, events ...) which motivated me to continue contributing content to Wikipedia and/or another Wikimedia project.
in a nutshell: regular community meet-up in WMAT's office; this time with the offer to review the results of last weeks photo project. Since no guests appeared the time was used to do some research for the image descriptions.
what we contributed to this activity: equipped room in our office, snacks/drinks, one staff member
in a nutshell: regular community meet-up in WMAT's office; this time about the ideas for a further development of WMAT's photographic equipment to use it for video production; concerning useful software Davinci Resolve was reviewed.
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
* the tool GLAMorous 2 is not working for more than a year now; therefore this number is only a calculation based upon the results from Jan to Jun 2018: 1 useful content ≙ 1.84 pages with files
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