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March 2019 Report

Wikidata Workshop at Elevate Festival

Basics in a nutshell: WMAT has been collaborating with the Elevate Festival in Graz for many years now, this year we hosted a Wikidata Workshop to raise awareness for open data and free knowledge volunteer organizers: JeanFred what we contributed to this activity: staff time, travel costs for staff	Program Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics participants : 6 diversity : 2 (women, non-Austrian)	More information → event webpage

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Wartungsbausteinwettbewerb Winter 2019

Basics in a nutshell: contest for removing cleanup templates in the German-language Wikipedia, held four times a year what we contributed to this activity: prizes	Program Community Support Free Content
Metrics participants : 38 content pages without media files and pages using media files: 737 (737 improved Wikipedia articles)	More information → Wartungsbausteinwettbewerb Winter 2019 in the German-language Wikipedia

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Wikipedia Blackout - Media Campaign around Copyright Reform

Basics in a nutshell: supporting the DE:WP blackout with a local awareness campaign on how copyright affects free knowledge: press interviews in all major newspapers and many smaller on- and offline news outlets, social media campaign, joint statement to politicians with other netpolitical players, supporting political rallies and giving speeches, cooperation with pladge2019.eu volunteer organizers: Thomas Planinger what we contributed to this activity: staff and volunteer time

Program Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness More information → Information page on wikimedia.at → Press review

Project Social Topics on Wikipedia

Basics in a nutshell: Together with Caritas Österreich / Caritas Wien, one of the biggest volunteer organisations in the German-speaking world, we launched a project last November: a group of Wikipedia newbies contributes and improves content about social topics on Wikipedia. The first round ended in March, the project will be continued and expanded. what we contributed to this activity: concept, coordination; equipped room in our office, snacks/drinks

Program Community Support Free Content

Metrics participants : 7 newly registered : 7 content pages : 329 (312 improved or new German-language Wikipedia articles, 17 new media files on Wikimedia Commons included liberated content by Caritas) diversity : 3 (3 women) retention : 7

More information → Final report (PDF, in German) → Outreach dashboard → Project page in German-language Wikipedia → Interviews with participants (in German) → Images on Wikimedia Commons

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Wikimedia Summit

Basics in a nutshell: WMAT supports the Wikimedia Movement Strategy process with volunteer and staff time. Our chair and executive director (ED) were our representatives at this conference. We provided input to the strategy process and hosted discussions. Our ED also attended several meetings before the conference, e.g. the ED meeting and several working meetings with WMF representatives (regarding branding/communication, grant making etc.) what we contributed to this activity: travel costs, staff time

Program Community Support More information → Reports from the WMAT participants (in German)

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WikiDACH and Photo workshop in Nuremberg

Basics in a nutshell: meeting of members of the German-speaking communities and a contemporaneous photo workshop what we contributed to this activity: travel costs for four participants from Austria.	Program Community Support Free Content
Metrics participants : 4 (supported by WMAT)	More information → Project page on de.wikipedia → Media files on Wikimedia Commons

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wiki♥vielfalt meeting in Linz

Basics in a nutshell: monthly event series for inclusive community building in Linz, Upper Austria; this time in cooperation with WikiGap what we contributed to this activity: organization (incl. travel costs for one staff member), snacks and drinks, give-aways	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 7 newly registered : 4 diversity : 5 (4 women, 2 foreigners)	More information → Project page in the German-language Wikipedia

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WMAT IdeaLab 2019

Basics in a nutshell: WMAT's annual workshop for incorporating community ideas into WMAT's short-term and mid-term planning; one major topic was the final community consultation phase for WMAT's revised support guidelines which then came into effect in April 2019; other topics included the Wikipedia blackout in March, the improvement of our monthly consultation for Wikipedia newbies and several photography projects what we contributed to this activity: equipped room in our office, snacks/drinks

Program Community Support

Metrics participants : 6

More information → WMAT IdeaLab in our members wiki (in German)

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WikiDienstag 2019-03-05

Basics in a nutshell: regular community meet-up in WMAT's office; this time including the monthly public Wikipedia consultation for newbies with experienced users. volunteer organizers: Tsui what we contributed to this activity: equipped rooms in our office, snacks and drinks	Program Community Support Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics participants : 4	More information → WikiDienstag in the German-language Wikipedia

WikiDienstag 2019-03-12

Basics in a nutshell: regular community meet-up in WMAT's office; this time advice for Wikipedia newbies 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 2019-03-26

Basics in a nutshell: regular community meet-up in WMAT's office; this evening dedicated to the finalization of Wikipedia articles from Wikiversity Austria projects volunteer organizers: Funke what we contributed to this activity: equipped room in our office, snacks/drinks	Program Free Content Community Support
Metrics participants : 3 content pages without media files and pages using media files: 3 (1 new, 2 improved German-language Wikipedia articles)	More information → WikiDienstag in the German-language Wikipedia → Wikiversity Austria

Wikipedia workshop at the Austrian Amnesty Academy

Basics in a nutshell: a workshop in cooperation with Amnesty International Austria to introduce volunteers to Wikipedia/Wikimedia in general as well as to editing and creating articles, contributing images etc. what we contributed to this activity: staff, concept and contents.	Program Community Support Free Content Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics participants : 14 newly registered : 4 (at least) content pages without media files and pages using media files: 1, 2 (two new articles in de.wikipedia) diversity : 9 (9 women)	More information → Media files on Wikipedia Commons → Project page of User:Amnesty_International_Österreich on de.wikipedia

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Supported media files and pages using media files

Basics in a nutshell: supported media files uploaded on Wikimedia Commons from 2019-03-01 to 2019-03-31 volunteer organizers: Braveheart, Jean-Frédéric, Ailura, Granada, Manfred Kuzel, Sandro Halank, Liberaler Humanist, 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

Program Free Content

Metrics new files : 25,802 pages with files : 1,179* quality : 64 (quality: 64) useful content : 641 versatile content : 1,620 – last checked: 2019-08-02 * 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

More information → Category:Supported by Wikimedia Österreich on Wikimedia Commons

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