Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Wikimedia Österreich/September 2020

September 2020
Report

Wikiversity: Summer University

Basics in a nutshell: Wikiversity and Wikipedia editing as integral part of a university course by the University of Vienna volunteer organizers: Agruwie what we contributed to this activity: co-organisation, information material, technical platform and hosting	Program Community Support Free Content Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics participants : 2 newly registered : 2 diversity : 2 (2 women)	More information → project page at de.wikiversity (German)

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 held a two-day-online meeting due to the Austrian Covid-19 development

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Basics in a nutshell: upgrading our annual Wikimania scholarships to a permanent support program, matching WMAT's and WMDE's scholarship guidelines and processes what we contributed to this activity: development together with WMDE	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 5	More information → Wikimania scholarship program (German version) → Wikimania scholarship program (English version)

Basics in a nutshell: recurring German-language Wikipedia writing contest for removing cleanup templates volunteer organizers: HvW what we contributed to this activity: awards	Program Community Support Free Content
Metrics participants : 35 quality : 2,825 (2,825 improved German-language Wikipedia articles) content pages : 2,825	More information → project page on de.wikipedia (German)

Basics in a nutshell: regular online meeting on how to reach, hold and welcome Wikipedia/Commons newcomers and to broaden the Austrian community's diversity volunteer organizers: Regiomontanus what we contributed to this activity: facilitation, video conference tool	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 4 diversity : 3 (1 woman, 2 foreign women)	More information → WMAT's expert groups in members wiki (in German)

Basics in a nutshell: video conference of one of WMAT's expert groups; discussing a new text for WMAT's rules of internal procedure about the coordination of longer absences of board members (e.g. parental leave) volunteer organizers: UlliZ what we contributed to this activity: facilitation, video conference tool	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 5 diversity : 2 (1 women, 1 foreigner)	More information → WMAT's expert groups in members wiki (in German) → WMAT's rules of internal procedure (in German)

Basics in a nutshell: video conference of one of WMAT's expert groups; discussing input for the Wikimedia 2030 transition events volunteer organizers: Philip Kopetzky what we contributed to this activity: facilitation, video conference tool	Program Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
Metrics participants : 6 diversity : 2 (2 foreigners)	More information → WMAT's expert groups in members wiki (in German)

Basics

in a nutshell: supported media files uploaded on Wikimedia Commons from 2020-09-01 to 2020-09-30
volunteer organizers: Isiwal, Uoaei1, Tsui, Tigerente; 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