Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Wikimedia Österreich/August 2021

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August 2021
Report

WMAT strategy meeting[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: hybrid strategy ((remote and in-person) event to translate our new strategy into an implementation plan and annual plan for 2022
  • what we contributed to this activity: staff time, venue and catering for the group that met in person
Program
Community Support
Metrics
  • participants The number of people who attend our events, programs or activities, either in person or virtually. This definition does not include people organizing activities, social media followers, donors, or others not participating directly.: 8
  • diversity The number of unique participants and/or organizers who belong to underrepresented groups in the Wikimedia movement in Austria. These groups are defined as women, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, persons belonging to ethnic, language or religious minorities in Austria, foreigners and people with disabilities.: 2 (female)

ORF. Wie Wiki[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: press campaing around the elections for the new head of Austria's public broadcasting agency. The aim was to raise awareness and support for freely licensed footage
  • volunteer organizers: Regiomontanus, Arno Grumbeck (WMAT), Friedrich Schipper, Leonhard Dobusch
  • what we contributed to this activity: staff time, professional communication support, public relations
Program
Awareness and Change
Metrics
  • participants The number of people who attend our events, programs or activities, either in person or virtually. This definition does not include people organizing activities, social media followers, donors, or others not participating directly.: 5
  • diversity The number of unique participants and/or organizers who belong to underrepresented groups in the Wikimedia movement in Austria. These groups are defined as women, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, persons belonging to ethnic, language or religious minorities in Austria, foreigners and people with disabilities.: 2 (female)
More information
landing page on our website

Wikimania 2021: community support program[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: (technical) participation support program for this year's virtual Wikimania, for Austrians and Germans, developed together with WMDE
  • what we contributed to this activity: concept and implementation, technical equipment as support
Program
Community Support
Metrics
  • participants The number of people who attend our events, programs or activities, either in person or virtually. This definition does not include people organizing activities, social media followers, donors, or others not participating directly.: 1 (Austrian Wikimedian getting support)
More information
Wikimania support program in German-language Wikipedia

Wikimania 2021: The top 9 things to know about safety and inclusion at Wikimedia online events[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: Wikimania session of the Volunteer Supporters Network with 9 lightning talks
  • what we contributed to this activity: general coordination, hosting, one lightning talk
Program
Community Support
Metrics
  • participants The number of people who attend our events, programs or activities, either in person or virtually. This definition does not include people organizing activities, social media followers, donors, or others not participating directly.: 50
More information
Session description
Video of the session on YouTube

Concrete Matters workshop[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: Workshop on women* biographies for Wikipedia for and with the Institut für Medienarchäologie in Lower Austria.
  • what we contributed to this activity: Staff time
Program
Awareness and Change
Metrics
  • participants The number of people who attend our events, programs or activities, either in person or virtually. This definition does not include people organizing activities, social media followers, donors, or others not participating directly.: 8
  • newly registered The number of participants that create new accounts on a Wikimedia project. These include users who register up to two weeks before the start of the event.: 5
  • content pages A content page is an article on Wikipedia, an item on Wikidata, a content page on Wikisource, an entry on Wiktionary, and a media file on Commons, etc. This metric captures the total number of content pages created or improved across all Wikimedia projects. without media files and pages using media files: 1 (DE:WP)
  • diversity The number of unique participants and/or organizers who belong to underrepresented groups in the Wikimedia movement in Austria. These groups are defined as women, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, persons belonging to ethnic, language or religious minorities in Austria, foreigners and people with disabilities.: 5 (Non-male)
More information
website about the workshop in German
Outreach dashboard

Newcomers & diversity expert group meeting 2021-08-12[edit]

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 The number of people who attend our events, programs or activities, either in person or virtually. This definition does not include people organizing activities, social media followers, donors, or others not participating directly.: 4
  • diversity The number of unique participants and/or organizers who belong to underrepresented groups in the Wikimedia movement in Austria. These groups are defined as women, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, persons belonging to ethnic, language or religious minorities in Austria, foreigners and people with disabilities.: 2 (2 foreign women)
More information
WMAT's expert groups in members wiki (in German)

Partners, projects, international finances expert group meeting 2021-08-26[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: expert group on international affairs, preparing input around movement strategy and international partnerships. This meeting was focussed on feedback around WMAT's new strategy
  • volunteer organizers: Braveheart
  • what we contributed to this activity: staff and volunteer time
Program
Community Support
Metrics
  • participants The number of people who attend our events, programs or activities, either in person or virtually. This definition does not include people organizing activities, social media followers, donors, or others not participating directly.: 3
  • diversity The number of unique participants and/or organizers who belong to underrepresented groups in the Wikimedia movement in Austria. These groups are defined as women, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, persons belonging to ethnic, language or religious minorities in Austria, foreigners and people with disabilities.: 2 (non-Austrian)

ED Call 2021-08-18[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: regular exchange among movement staff leaders, this time with a focus on movement strategy
  • what we contributed to this activity: staff time
Program
Community Support
Metrics
  • participants The number of people who attend our events, programs or activities, either in person or virtually. This definition does not include people organizing activities, social media followers, donors, or others not participating directly.: 4
  • diversity The number of unique participants and/or organizers who belong to underrepresented groups in the Wikimedia movement in Austria. These groups are defined as women, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, persons belonging to ethnic, language or religious minorities in Austria, foreigners and people with disabilities.: 4 (female)

WikiVibrance[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: A meeting aimed at commemorating International Youth Day (IYD) 2021 in the movement by working with young people to mobilize and engage particularly young Wikimedians.
  • volunteer organizers: CaliBen, James Moore200, Ndahiro derrick, Ptinphusmia
  • what we contributed to this activity: technical support, providing the meeting platform
Program
Community Support
Free Content
Metrics
  • participants The number of people who attend our events, programs or activities, either in person or virtually. This definition does not include people organizing activities, social media followers, donors, or others not participating directly.: 71
  • diversity The number of unique participants and/or organizers who belong to underrepresented groups in the Wikimedia movement in Austria. These groups are defined as women, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, persons belonging to ethnic, language or religious minorities in Austria, foreigners and people with disabilities.: 71 (participants from the global south)
More information
The WikiVibrance on Meta

Wikimedia CEE Spring 2021[edit]

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: Kiril Simeonovski, Papuass, Philip Kopetzky, Magalia, Zblace
  • what we contributed to this activity: fiscal sponsoring, prizes
Program
Community Support
Free Content
Metrics
  • participants The number of people who attend our events, programs or activities, either in person or virtually. This definition does not include people organizing activities, social media followers, donors, or others not participating directly.: 621
  • newly registered The number of participants that create new accounts on a Wikimedia project. These include users who register up to two weeks before the start of the event.: 22
  • content pages A content page is an article on Wikipedia, an item on Wikidata, a content page on Wikisource, an entry on Wiktionary, and a media file on Commons, etc. This metric captures the total number of content pages created or improved across all Wikimedia projects. without media files and pages using media files: 16,099 (15,366 new and 733 improved Wikipedia articles in 26 Wikipedia language versions)
  • diversity The number of unique participants and/or organizers who belong to underrepresented groups in the Wikimedia movement in Austria. These groups are defined as women, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, persons belonging to ethnic, language or religious minorities in Austria, foreigners and people with disabilities.: 62 (declaring to be female)
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project page
lang. count lang. count lang. count lang. count
el 364 ru 249 pl 727 hu 778
eo 79 tt 50 sq 270 kk 2
myv 131 tr 1026 bg 1045 sr 615
hy 1122 lv 688 ba 199 mk 160
et 549 sk 128 hr 285 be-tarask 898
az 747 ro 584 de 840 uk 3928
mt 111 sl 524

Wartungsbausteinwettbewerb Summer 2021[edit]

Basics
Program
Community Support
Free Content
Metrics
  • participants The number of people who attend our events, programs or activities, either in person or virtually. This definition does not include people organizing activities, social media followers, donors, or others not participating directly.: 35
  • quality High quality – the number of community decorations for media files (featured, quality, valued) and articles (quality, featured) – and improved quality – the number of improved main namespace pages tagged as having quality issues.: 1,049 (1,049 improved German-language Wikipedia articles)
More information
project page on de.wikipedia

Wiki Takes Südburgenland preparation meeting[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: Meeting of participants in preparation of a Wiki Takes ... photography excursion to the southern Burgenland.
  • volunteer organizers: Ailura, Haeferl
  • what we contributed to this activity: organizational, technical and financial support
Program
Community Support
Free Content
Metrics
  • participants The number of people who attend our events, programs or activities, either in person or virtually. This definition does not include people organizing activities, social media followers, donors, or others not participating directly.: 4
  • diversity The number of unique participants and/or organizers who belong to underrepresented groups in the Wikimedia movement in Austria. These groups are defined as women, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, persons belonging to ethnic, language or religious minorities in Austria, foreigners and people with disabilities.: 3 (3 women)
More information
project page on de.wikipedia

Wiki Takes Südburgenland[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: "Wiki Takes" activity for Wikimedia Commons in the Southern part of the state of Burgenland, Austria
  • what we contributed to this activity: getting external funding, organisation, technical equipment
Program
Community Support
Free Content
Metrics
  • participants The number of people who attend our events, programs or activities, either in person or virtually. This definition does not include people organizing activities, social media followers, donors, or others not participating directly.: 8
  • diversity The number of unique participants and/or organizers who belong to underrepresented groups in the Wikimedia movement in Austria. These groups are defined as women, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, persons belonging to ethnic, language or religious minorities in Austria, foreigners and people with disabilities.: 3 (female)
More information
Project page in German-language Wikipedia
Media files on Wikimedia Commons
uploaded media files 2,097
distinct files used in main namespace 590
pages in main namespace using files 606
total file usages in main namespace 840

(last check: 2021-11-04)

WikiDienstag 2021-08-03[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: regular community meet-up, usually in WMAT's office but due to the pandemic still in the form of an online conference; this time as an open meeting with no given topic
  • volunteer organizers: Tsui
  • what we contributed to this activity: online platform, help with organization
Program
Community Support
Metrics
  • participants The number of people who attend our events, programs or activities, either in person or virtually. This definition does not include people organizing activities, social media followers, donors, or others not participating directly.: 1
More information
WikiDienstag on de.wikipedia

WikiDienstag 2021-08-17[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: regular community meet-up, usually in WMAT's office but due to the pandemic still in the form of an online conference; this time in preparation of a Wiki Takes ... photography excursion to the southern Burgenland.
  • volunteer organizers: Funke
  • what we contributed to this activity: online platform, help with organization
Program
Community Support
Free Content
Metrics
  • participants The number of people who attend our events, programs or activities, either in person or virtually. This definition does not include people organizing activities, social media followers, donors, or others not participating directly.: 4
  • diversity The number of unique participants and/or organizers who belong to underrepresented groups in the Wikimedia movement in Austria. These groups are defined as women, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, persons belonging to ethnic, language or religious minorities in Austria, foreigners and people with disabilities.: 2 (2 woman)
More information
WikiDienstag on de.wikipedia

KulturWikiDienstag 2021-08-31[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: In our series of cooperations with cultural institutions in the form of online events the Landesmuseum Burgenland presented "Archaeology in Burgenland".
  • what we contributed to this activity: online platform, organization
Program
Community Support
Metrics
  • participants The number of people who attend our events, programs or activities, either in person or virtually. This definition does not include people organizing activities, social media followers, donors, or others not participating directly.: 17
  • diversity The number of unique participants and/or organizers who belong to underrepresented groups in the Wikimedia movement in Austria. These groups are defined as women, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, persons belonging to ethnic, language or religious minorities in Austria, foreigners and people with disabilities.: 9 (1 Austrian woman, 4 female foreigners, 4 male foreigners)
More information
project page on de.wikipedia

Supported media files and pages using media files[edit]

Basics
Program
Free Content
Metrics
  • new files The number of new media files uploaded on Wikimedia Commons.: 5.898
  • pages with files The number of pages in the main namespace of Wikimedia projects using new media files.: 1.170
  • quality High quality – the number of community decorations for media files (featured, quality, valued) and articles (quality, featured) – and improved quality – the number of improved main namespace pages tagged as having quality issues.: 42 (featured: 1, quality: 41)
  • useful content Number of distinct new media files used in the main namespace of Wikimedia projects.: 841
  • versatile content Number of total usages of new media files files in main namespace.:1.390

– last checked: 2022-03-04

More information
Category:Supported by Wikimedia Österreich on Wikimedia Commons
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