Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Wikimedia Österreich/September 2019

September 2019
Report

WMAT strategy meeting Edit

Basics

in a nutshell: Every year in summer, the WMAT board and some of the staff go on a strategy offsite in order to check how the year has been progressing and to prepare the annual plan and budget for the next year. This year we tackled some additional tasks regarding organisational development: The general assembly tasked us with reforming our election process.
what we contributed to this activity: Travel costs, accomodation and venue, food, staff time

Program

Community Support

Metrics

participants : 10
diversity : 2 (female and non-Austrian)

More information

→ The results of our planning are discussed with our community in the context of planning labs

WikiProject Traditional Crafts: The Pocketknives of Trattenbach Edit

Basics in a nutshell: start of the new German-language WikiProject Traditional Crafts with documenting (text, photo, video) the intangible cultural heritage of the pocketknives in Trattenbach, Upper Austria volunteer organizers: Geolina163 what we contributed to this activity: project coordination, travel grants	Program Community Support Free Content
Metrics participants : 15 content pages without media files and pages using media files: 18 (see table below)	More information → Project page in German-language Wikipedia → Media files on Wikimedia Commons → Final report (PDF, in German)

Results
new or improved German-language Wikipedia articles	18 (new: 14, improved: 4)
new media files on Wikimedia Commons	697
new RegiowikiAT articles	31

Upper Austrian Townscape Fair 2019 in Ternberg Edit

Basics in a nutshell: presentation of Wikipedia and of Wikimedia Austria's projects related to regional culture like WikiDaheim volunteer organizers: 1971markus, Agruwie, Dromedar61, Geolina163, Haeferl, Regiomontanus what we contributed to this activity: organization of and costs for fair booth	Program Community Support Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics participants : 117 (direct contacts with fair visitors and exhibitors)	More information → Event page in German-language Wikipedia → Media files on Wikimedia Commons → Municipality of Ternberg: Townscape Fair 2019 (in German) → Upper Austrian State Federation of Village and Urban Development Associations: Townscape Fair 2019 (in German)

Wikipedia Café in Linz Edit

Basics

in a nutshell: monthly get-together of the Upper Austrian Wikimedia community in Linz, Upper Austria.
what we contributed to this activity: project lead, travel costs for staff

Program

Community Support

Metrics

participants : 3

More information

→ Wikipedia:Oberösterreich/Wikipedia Café in German-language Wikipedia

Photo project at the International Motor Show IAA in Germany Edit

Basics in a nutshell: photography at the International Motor Show Germany (Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung IAA) volunteer organizers: Johannes Maximilian what we contributed to this activity: travel costs, equipment for photography	Program Free Content
Metrics participants : 2	More information → Commons category of images

project	results
Wikimedia Commons	811 new media files on Wikimedia Commons, 377 distinct images used in main namespace of Wikimedia projects, with 1192 total image usages

WikidataWednesday 2019-09-18 Edit

Basics in a nutshell: work on Austria-related databases Work on a Mix'n'match catalogue for RegiowikiAT (Q32752205) Identification of an Austria-related database of movies: sixpackfilmdata (Q67883980) (property proposal) volunteer organizers: Jean-Fred what we contributed to this activity: coordination, venue, snacks and drinks	Program Community Support Free Content Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics participants : 2 content pages without media files and pages using media files: 431 (10 new items)	More information → WikidataWednesday on Wikidata

Wikiversity: Europaforum Wachau Edit

Basics in a nutshell: Wikiversity and Wikipedia editing as integral part of a university course by the University of Vienna in cooperation with Europa-Forum Wachau volunteer organizers: Agruwie, Karl Gruber, JoKalliauer, Regiomontanus what we contributed to this activity: co-organisation, information material, travel costs for volunteer organizers	Program Community Support Free Content Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics participants : 24 newly registered : 20 content pages without media files and pages using media files: 11 (5 new dewiki articles, 3 improved dewiki articles, 1 improved enwiki article, 1 improved frwiki article, 1 improved rowiki article) diversity : 17 (17 female participants) retention : 19 – last checked: 2020-03-26	More information → Course page in German-language Wikiversity → Media files on Wikimedia Commons

Monuments Day Edit

Basics

in a nutshell: presenting Wikipedia and Wikimedia Austria, especially our projects to reach new authors and contributors and the photo contest WikiDaheim, as guests of Federal Monuments Office at their rooms at Vienna Hofburg; additionally supporting photographers who travelled through Austria to take pictures of monuments
volunteer organizers: Regiomontanus
what we contributed to this activity: staff time, technical equipment, promotional material

Program

Community Support

Free Content

Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness

Metrics

participants : 700 contacts at Hofburg (200 conversations)

More information

→ Official website of Tag des Denkmals, archive 2019

WikiDienstag 2019-09-03 Edit

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: Nadine 13131 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 2019-09-10 Edit

Basics in a nutshell: regular community meet-up in WMAT's office; this time review of WikiProject Traditional Crafts: The Pocketknives of Trattenbach volunteer organizers: Agruwie 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 2019-09-17 Edit

Basics in a nutshell: regular community meet-up in WMAT's office; this time in preparation of Tag des Dankmals 2019 (Monuments Day) volunteer organizers: Regiomontanus what we contributed to this activity: equipped room in our office, snacks/drinks; material for the event	Program Community Support Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics participants : 4	More information → WikiDienstag in the German-language Wikipedia

WikiDienstag 2019-09-24 Edit

Basics in a nutshell: regular community meet-up in WMAT's office; this time open meeting volunteer organizers: Funke what we contributed to this activity: equipped room in our office, snacks/drinks	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 1	More information → WikiDienstag in the German-language Wikipedia

Supported media files and pages using media files Edit

Basics

in a nutshell: supported media files uploaded on Wikimedia Commons from 2019-09-01 to 2019-09-30
volunteer organizers: Haeferl, Alexander-93, 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