Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Wikimedia Österreich/May 2019

May 2019
Report

Wikidata workshop @ Linuxtage Wien

Basics in a nutshell: half day wikidata workshop in cooperation with the Vienna Linux weeks volunteer organizers: Jean-Frédéric, Informatom what we contributed to this activity: coordination and communication, staff support, snacks	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 15 diversity : 4 (4 non-male)	More information → event page

Edit-a-thon Sommeruni

Basics in a nutshell: editing Wikiversity and Wikipedia as an integral part of a university course by the University of Vienna, on this occasion with an edit-a-thon to collectively write a new article volunteer organizers: Agruwie, Beppo Stuhl, JoKalliauer what we contributed to this activity: staff time, information material	Program Community Support Free Content
Metrics participants : 14 content pages without media files and pages using media files: 1 (Schloßbergbühne Kasematten) diversity : 9 (9 women)	More information → Course page in German-language Wikiversity

30th Wikipedia Writing Contest

Basics in a nutshell: writing contest for quality articles in German-language Wikipedia (Wikipedia:Schreibwettbewerb), held two times a year volunteer organizers: Atomiccocktail, DerHexer, Felistoria, Ghilt, Lutheraner, Pacogo7, Sargoth, Uwe G. (= members of the jurys) what we contributed to this activity: prizes	Program Community Support Free Content
Metrics participants : 30 content pages without media files and pages using media files: 33 (new or improved German-language Wikipedia articles)	More information → Wikipedia:Schreibwettbewerb in German-language Wikipedia

Creative Commons Summit in Lisbon

Basics

in a nutshell: our ED attended the CC Summit this year in order to network around the Strategy Process and learn from their stakeholders about their recent governance reform. The event was also useful to get new input and inspiration around equity, diversity and inclusion from a like-minded community and to catch up on common challenges such as the EU copyright reform
what we contributed to this activity: travel costs, staff time

Program

Community Support

Metrics

participants : 1

Commons Photography Workshop in Linz

Basics in a nutshell: our monthly meeting with and of the community in Upper Austria. On this saturday we offered to get to know WMAT's equipment for studio photography and used it to take pictures of bread an pastries. what we contributed to this activity: project lead, travel costs for staff, snacks and drinks	Program Community Support Free Content
Metrics participants : 5	More information → Category on Commons → Wikipedia workshops in Linz on WMAT website (in German) → Wikipedia:Oberösterreich/Wikipedia Café in German-language Wikipedia

WikidataWednesday

Basics

in a nutshell: as an addition to our Wikidata workshops and outreach events, our Wikidata group decided to host a monthly meeting for Wikidata newbies, enthusiats and everybody in between. They meet every months for an evening to work on Wikidata projects together, develop new ideas or help each other with questions and problems.
volunteer organizers: Jean-Frédéric
what we contributed to this activity: Venue, communication (social media etc.), snacks, staff support

Program

Community Support

Free Content

Metrics

participants : 6
content pages without media files and pages using media files: 4 (4 improved Wikidata items)
diversity : 2 (2 foreigners)

More information

→ WikidataWednesday on Wikidata

Wikimedia CEE Spring

Basics in a nutshell: annual competition for articles concerning every country in the region of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) on every Wikipedia volunteer organizers: Spiritia, Papuass, Philip Kopetzky, Magalia, Masti, Strainu what we contributed to this activity: fiscal sponsoring, prizes	Program Community Support Free Content
Metrics participants : 500 newly registered : 127 content pages without media files and pages using media files: 12410 (new or improved Wikipedia articles in 24 Wikipedia language versions) diversity : 48 (editors declaring to be female) retention : too early to collect the data	More information → Wikimedia CEE Spring 2019 on meta.wikimedia.org

lang.	count	lang.	count	lang.	count	lang.	count
el	331	ru	217	pl	1223	hu	902
eo	34	tt	54	be	4	ka	68
myv	180	tr	172	bg	688	sr	620
hy	1196	lv	865	ba	867	mk	163
et	274	lt	217	hr	474	be-tarask	370
az	347	ro	588	de	498	uk	2058

Wikimedia Hackathon 2019 in Prague

Basics in a nutshell: travel support for interested members of the Austrian Wikidata group to foster international cooperation and better inclusion in the wider movement, our particpants either contributed to showcase projects or served as mentors at the Hackathon what we contributed to this activity: travel support for five participants Jampo001, Pebaryan, Simon04, Thomas Ledl, Tobias1984	Program Community Support Free Content
Metrics participants : 6 content pages : 63 (2 dewiki improved, 18 new Wikimedia Commons files, 4 Wikidata items created, 39 Wikidata items created)	More information → Results and reports → Media files on Wikimedia Commons

International Museums Day campaign

Basics in a nutshell: CentralNotice awareness campaign (English, German, French, Italian) by WMCH, WMAT and WMDE around the International Museum Day; including a map with missing content about museums in Switzerland, Austria and Germany based on Wikidata what we contributed to this activity: coordination for Austria	Program Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics participants : 4 (people involved in partner chapters)	More information → English landing page

Geographic Museums Map

landing page	page views from 2019-05-06 to 2019-05-22
Wikimedia DACH/Museum Day 2019 (en)	674
Wikimedia DACH/Museum Day 2019/de	1119
Wikimedia DACH/Museum Day 2019/fr	83
Wikimedia DACH/Museum Day 2019/it	64
total	1940

WikiGap in Swedish Embassy

Basics in a nutshell: A WikiGap event with panel discussion and edit-a-thon at the Embassy of Sweden in Vienna. Organized in cooperation with the embassy and the students of SAGE (Students Advocating Gender Equality). volunteer organizers: ClaraBohman (SAGE) what we contributed to this activity: Preparations for the event and especially the edit-a-thon, two staff members	Program Community Support Free Content Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics participants : 40 (approximately) newly registered : 13 content pages without media files and pages using media files: 4 (new: 1, 2, 3, 4) diversity : 32 (women, different heritages/nationalities/languages) retention : too early to collect the data	More information → WikiGap at the Embassy of Sweden in Vienna → WikiGap on meta

WikiDienstag 2019-05-07

Basics in a nutshell: regular community meet-up in WMAT's office; this time with our monthly public Wikipedia consultation for newbies with experienced users volunteer organizers: Nadine 13131 what we contributed to this activity: equipped room in our office, snacks/drinks	Program Community Support Free Content
Metrics participants : 6	More information → WikiDienstag in the German-language Wikipedia

WikiDienstag 2019-05-14

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

WikiDienstag 2019-05-21

Basics in a nutshell: regular community meet-up in WMAT's office; this time scanning old photographs for Wikimedia Commmons with WMAT's A3 scanner volunteer organizers: Funke what we contributed to this activity: equipped room in our office, snacks/drinks	Program Community Support Free Content
Metrics participants : 5	More information → WikiDienstag in the German-language Wikipedia

WikiDienstag 2019-05-28

Basics

in a nutshell: regular community meet-up in WMAT's office; this time we discussed WMAT's selection for the affiliate selected board seats and input from our community on the scoping documents of the movement strategy process (part of the input was prepared by the expert group for international affairs)
what we contributed to this activity: equipped room in our office, snacks/drinks, staff time

Program

Community Support

Metrics

participants : 6

More information

→ WikiDienstag in the German-language Wikipedia

Supported media files and pages using media files

Basics

in a nutshell: supported media files uploaded on Wikimedia Commons from 2019-05-01 to 2019-05-31
volunteer organizers: Jean-Frédéric, Simon04, Braveheart, Ailura, Sandro Halank; 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 : 15,034
pages with files : 482*
quality : 0
useful content : 262
versatile content : 460

– 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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