Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Wikimedia Österreich/September 2021

September 2021
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Edit-a-thon Female Arts Historians in BlueEdit

Basics in a nutshell: 11-days edit-a-thon around articles about female art historians in German-language Wikipedia, stating with a full-day Wikipedia workshop for newcomers, organised together with the Austrian Association of Art Historians what we contributed to this activity: organisation, conduction	Program Community Support Free Content Awareness and Change
Metrics participants : 8 newly registered : 5 content pages without media files and pages using media files: 12 (4 new and 8 improved dewiki articles) diversity : 7 (women)	More information → Project page in German-language Wikipedia → Announcement on the Austrian Association of Art Historians' website (in German)

Basics in a nutshell: follow-up meeting for the participants of the Concrete Matters Wikipedia workshop conducted with IMA Institut für Medienarchäologie in August 2021 what we contributed to this activity: conduction	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 10 diversity : 9 (female participants)	More information → Concrete Matters workshop on the IMA website

Basics in a nutshell: blog series on WMAT's website featuring selected images uploaded to our running WikiDaheim photo competition, focussing on 35 new editors and experimenting to use this blog series as a reason for starting a direct communication with them (unsuccessfully, no answers to our wikimails) what we contributed to this activity: organisation	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 4 (WMAT's newcomers & diversity expert group)	More information → Discovered at WikiDaheim #1 → Discovered at WikiDaheim #2 → Discovered at WikiDaheim #3 → Discovered at WikiDaheim #4 → Discovered at WikiDaheim #5 → Discovered at WikiDaheim #6 → Discovered at WikiDaheim #7

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in a nutshell: Giving lectures in two graduation classes about the legal frameworks of sharing photographies online, on Wikimedia Commons and elsewhere. The event was accompanying the Wiki project "100 Years Burgenland" of the school. Additionally Wikimedia Austria's popup exhibition "20 Years of Wikipedia" at the school was opened.
volunteer organizers: Karl Gruber
what we contributed to this activity: preparation, lecture, exhibition

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Basics in a nutshell: Hybrid birthday event for Wikipedia hosted by the community of Albert-Schweitzer-Haus what we contributed to this activity: staff time	Program Awareness and Change
Metrics participants : 5 diversity : 5 (female)	More information → Albert-Schweitzer-Haus website (in German)

Basics in a nutshell: course of the University of Vienna, the University of Graz and the University of Salzburg about cultural heritage, including a Wikipedia course and Wikipedia editing by the students, held online (start date: 2021-07-19, end date: 2021-09-06) volunteer organizers: Agruwie what we contributed to this activity: conducting workshops and lectures, video conference platform	Program Community Support Awareness and Change
Metrics participants : 3 (students) newly registered : 3 (students)	More information → Course page in German-language Wikiversity

Basics in a nutshell: Wikimedia booth at a fair in rural Upper Austria, photography project in the surrounding municipalities volunteer organizers: Dromedar61, Haeferl, Karl Gruber, Pfeifferfranz, Regiomontanus what we contributed to this activity: participation fee, travel costs, presentation materials	Program Community Support Free Content Awareness and Change
Metrics participants : 93 (direct communications with fair visitors)	More information → Project page in German-language Wikipedia → Media files on Wikimedia Commons → Townscape Fairs, Government of Upper Austria (in German)

Basics in a nutshell: Austrian edition of the worldwide photography contest Wiki Loves Earth as one of the contests combined in WikiDaheim (October). volunteer organizers: Ailura, Haeferl what we contributed to this activity: technical help for meetings, prizes for winners	Program Community Support Free Content
Metrics participants : 5 (members of the jury) newly registered, content pages etc. are part of WikiDaheim in October	More information → project page Wiki Loves Earth 2021 in Austria

Basics in a nutshell: exchange among movement staff leaders, this time a meeting with WMF's director for grantmaking what we contributed to this activity: staff time (preparation, coordination)	Program Community Support
Metrics participants : 8 diversity : 7 (female)