Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Wikimedia Österreich/November 2019

November 2019
Report

Editaton Prachatice 2 Edit

Basics in a nutshell: 3-days multi-lingual Wikipedia and Commons edit-a-thon in and about the city of Prachatice, Czechia; organised by WMČR with Wikimedians from Czechia, Austria and Germany what we contributed to this activity: translation/promotion in Austria, travel grant for 1 Austrian volunteer	Program Community Support Free Content
Metrics participants : 1 content pages without media files and pages using media files: 20 (8 new and 12 improved German-language Wikipedia articles by the Austrian Wikimedian)	More information → Project page in Czech Wikipedia → Media files on Wikimedia Commons

Legal workshop in Frankfurt Edit

Basics in a nutshell: further training in licensing and personal law issues for Wikimedians in Frankfurt, Germany what we contributed to this activity: travel grants for 2 Wikimedia volunteers from Austria	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 2	More information → Event page in German-language Wikipedia

Wikipedia vor Ort 2019 Edit

Basics

in a nutshell: As last year, WMAT, WMDE and WMCH co-designed a common campaign for all three countries, promoting simultaneous local open house events in 18 cities across the region, where interested Wikipedia readers can meet our communities, and learn how Wikipedia & Co. work. In Austria, we were present in 4 cities (last year: 2).
volunteer organizers: 80686, AleXXw, Asurnipal, Berlinschneid, Bjs, BotBln, Der Keks, EvK, Finanzer, Fridolin freudenfett, GodeNehler, Gustavf, Holder, IBits, Ireas, Neitram, Plani, Raboe001, Raymond, RudolfSimon, Sebastian Wallroth, Stobaios, Wuselig
what we contributed to this activity: planning, coordination, venues, info material

Program

Community Support

Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness

Metrics

participants : 1,021 (visitors at the locations)
newly registered : 163 (by banner campaign)

More information

→ Event page in German-language Wikipedia

→ Project page in German-language Wikipedia

→ Media files on Wikimedia Commons

Lecture at Keplersalon Edit

Basics

in a nutshell: As a fringe event to our Wikipedia vor Ort event, we joint forces with a local group in Linz, which organizes talks on current topics, the so-called Kepler-Salon. Our Executive Director Claudia Garád prepared a presentation on "Wikipedia and Truth" which then led to a wider discussion with the ~65 attendees, many of them from groups which might know Wikipedia but otherwise do not know much about the Wikimedia Movement or how content is created on the projects.
volunteer organizers: Magdalena Reiter
what we contributed to this activity: coordination, communication and a presentation by our ED

Program

Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness

Metrics

participants : 65
diversity : 25 (female, non-binary)

More information

→ event page

WikidataWednesday 2019-11-13 Edit

Basics

in a nutshell: monthly Wikidata meet up in Vienna

Discussions around association football data, and potential bridges between football.db − free open public domain football data and Wikidata
Introduction to Semantic MediaWiki as a potential alternative / complement to Wikidata
Discussion around TU Wien’s ReposiTUm and bridges to Wikidata

already 370 articles from reposiTUm available on Wikidata https://w.wiki/C24

Tools mentioned/presented: Property browser, QuickStatements, Wikidata Graph Builder, Wikidata reconciliation service for OpenRefinen

volunteer organizers: Jean-Frédéric
what we contributed to this activity: coordination, venue, snacks and drinks

Program

Community Support

Free Content

Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness

Metrics

participants : 9

More information

→ Wikidata Event page

GLAM meeting in Munich Edit

Basics in a nutshell: meeting of the Wikimedia GLAM communities of Germany, Austria and Switzerland for coordination and planning of activities in 2020, hosted by WMDE in Munich what we contributed to this activity: travel costs of 3 Austrian participants, contributions to the program	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 3 (participating Austrians)	More information → Event page in German-language Wikipedia → Media files on Wikimedia Commons

Volunteer Supporters Network meeting in Switzerland Edit

Basics in a nutshell: meeting of the Volunteer Supporters Network (VSN) hosted by WMCH, with 12 participants from 9 Wikimedia affiliates, main topics: skill sharing, new editor retention, Wikimedia 2030 strategy what we contributed to this activity: travel costs of our community manager, program coordination and contributions to the program	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 1	More information → Event page on Meta → Media files on Wikimedia Commons

Community communication training in Vienna Edit

Basics in a nutshell: 2-days offline training for Austrian Wikipedians by an external trainer (paid by WMDE), for a better handling of conflicts in Wikipedia what we contributed to this activity: coordination, equipped room in our office, catering	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 8	More information → Event page in German-language Wikipedia

Edit-a-thon at Free Knowledge course, University of Vienna Edit

Basics in a nutshell: our board member Fritz Schipper held a course about Free Knowledge at the University of Vienna; the edit-a-thon was an introduction to Wikipedia editing for the students volunteer organizers: Agruwie, JoKalliauer, Regiomontanus what we contributed to this activity: concept and realization (staff time)	Program Community Support Free Content Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics participants : 19 content pages without media files and pages using media files: 1 (German-language Wikipedia article de:Gertrude Langer created during the workshop) diversity : 11 (11 female participants)	More information → Course pages in German-language Wikiversity

Wikipedia workshop in Vienna Edit

Basics in a nutshell: afternoon Wikipedia workshop for new editors as a follow-up activity to Wikipedia vor Ort what we contributed to this activity: concept, coordination and execution; equipped room in our office	Program Community Support Free Content
Metrics participants : 4 newly registered : 3 content pages without media files and pages using media files: 1 (German-language Wikipedia article de:Weghuberpark created during workshop) diversity : 2 (2 women) retention : 2 – last checked: 2020-03-17	More information → de:Weghuberpark

Wartungsbausteinwettbewerb Autumn 2019 Edit

Basics in a nutshell: recurring German-language Wikipedia writing contest for removing cleanup templates what we contributed to this activity: awards	Program Community Support Free Content
Metrics participants : 35 content pages without media files and pages using media files: 749 (improved German-language Wikipedia articles)	More information → Project page in German-language Wikipedia

Denkmal-Cup 2020 Edit

Basics in a nutshell: Denkmal-Cup ("Monuments Cup") is an annual German language Wikipedia writing competition for cultural heritage monuments volunteer organizers: Braveheart what we contributed to this activity: original concept, prizes	Program Community Support Free Content
Metrics participants : 18 content pages without media files and pages using media files: 433 (new or improved articles in German-language Wikipedia)	More information → Denkmal-Cup 2019 in the German-language Wikipedia

WikiDienstag 2019-11-05 Edit

Basics in a nutshell: regular community meet-up in WMAT's office; this time with the monthly public Wikipedia consultation for newbies with experienced users volunteer organizers: Herzi Pinki, Nadine 13131 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 → Wikipedia-Beratung (in German)

WikiDienstag 2019-11-12 Edit

Basics in a nutshell: regular community meet-up in WMAT's office; this time with a review of the past open doors event Wikipedia vor Ort what we contributed to this activity: equipped room in our office, snacks/drinks	Program Community Support Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics participants : 6	More information → WikiDienstag in the German-language Wikipedia → Notes of the discussion (in German)

WikiDienstag 2019-11-19 Edit

Basics in a nutshell: regular community meet-up in WMAT's office; this time discussing issues of topography in Austria related to Wikipedia, Commons and Wikidata (missing images, correct names, data objects ...) volunteer organizers: Agruwie 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 2019-11-26 Edit

Basics in a nutshell: regular community meet-up in WMAT's office; this time discussing the possibility and the challenges of organizing the WikiCon 2021 in Linz what we contributed to this activity: equipped room in our office, snacks/drinks	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 7	More information → WikiDienstag in the German-language Wikipedia → Transcript (in German)

Supported media files and pages using media files Edit

Basics

in a nutshell: supported media files uploaded on Wikimedia Commons from 2019-11-01 to 2019-11-30
volunteer organizers: Isiwal, 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