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December 2020
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Wiki Loves Folklore WPWP[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: contest to promote the use of digital media files collected from Wiki Loves Folklore photography contests, photowalks organized by the Wikimedia community, on Wikipedia article pages
  • what we contributed to this activity: fiscal sponsorship for Open Heritage Foundation
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.: 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: 2477 (improved pages)
More information
→ Wiki Loves Folklore WPWP Report

Wikicite: Improving Wikidata-Wikisource Integration[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: improving Wikidata-Wikisource integration (metadata and copyright information)
  • what we contributed to this activity: fiscal sponsorship for Open Heritage Foundation
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.: 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.: 4 (4 foreigners)
More information
→ Wikicite grant application page

WP20 website and press campaign[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: a website to advertise the WP20 activities in Austria throughout the year 2021; on the day of the website release WMAT also sent out a press release to inform about the activities and emphazised on the 20th birthday on January 15th
  • what we contributed to this activity: website content, Austrian WP20 symbols, press release
Program
Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
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.: 1 (1 woman)
More information
→ 20.wikipedia.at
→ Wikipedia 20 derivatives/AT on Wikimedia Commons

WP20 AT/CH/DE coordination group[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: regular online calls to update and inform the other chapters on the WP20 activities and progress.
  • what we contributed to this activity: staff time
Program
Community Support
Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
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.: 6
  • 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 (1 woman, 3 foreign woman, 1 foreign man)

Statement on the Austrian Copyright Reform[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: statement by WMAT and Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU on the upcoming Austrian copyright reform
  • volunteer organizers: Plani
  • what we contributed to this activity: coordination
Program
Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
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
More information
→ Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU

WMAT winter strategy meeting[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: online strategy meeting of WMAT's board and staff
  • what we contributed to this activity: staff time and technical platform
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.: 10
  • 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 (2 women, 1 male foreigner, 1 female foreigner)
More information
→ 2020 board announcements

Wikimedia Commons expert group meeting 2020-12-01[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: video conference of one of WMAT's expert groups to decide which pictures to use for the annually produced calendar representing photographers supported by Wikimedia Austria and the contributions to WikiDaheim
  • volunteer organizers: Agruwie
  • what we contributed to this activity: facilitation, video conference tool
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
→ WMAT's expert groups in members wiki (in German)
→ project page on Commons (in German)

Wikimedia Commons expert group meeting 2020-12-03[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: video conference of one of WMAT's expert groups to decide which pictures to use for the special calendar presenting some of the most prolific photographers supported by Wikimedia Austria
  • volunteer organizers: Agruwie
  • what we contributed to this activity: facilitation, video conference tool
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
→ WMAT's expert groups in members wiki (in German)
→ project page on Commons (in German)

WikiCup 2020[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: annual year-long writing competition in the German-language Wikipedia
  • what we contributed to this activity: prize trophy
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.: 46
  • 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: 5484 (new or improved German language Wikipedia articles)
  • 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.: 25 (5 featured articles, 15 quality articles, 5 featured lists)
More information
→ WikiCup 2020 in the German-language Wikipedia

WikiDienstag 2020-12-01[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: regular community meet-up, usually in WMAT's office but due to the pandemic in the form of an online conference; this time with our monthly public Wikipedia consultation for newbies with experienced users
  • volunteer organizers: Regio
  • what we contributed to this activity: online platform, technical hosting
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.: 2
More information
→ Archive of WikiDienstag in 2020 (in German)

WikiDienstag 2020-12-15[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: regular meet-up, usually in WMAT's office but due to the pandemic in the form of an online conference; this time also the annual meeting of the community before the christmas holidays
  • what we contributed to this activity: online platform, technical hosting
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.: 9
More information
→ project page on de.wikipedia
→ Archive of WikiDienstag in 2020 (in German)

Online workshop: Women in politics[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: meet-up of female Wikipedians focussing on women in politics; using WMAT's video conferencing platform
  • volunteer organizers: Leserättin
  • what we contributed to this activity: technical platform and hosting
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.: 9 (9 foreign women)
More information
→ project page Wikipedia-Stuttgart on de.wikipedia

Netpolitical Evenings (2nd half-year report)[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: We co-hosted 9 netpolitical evenings as of December 2020 (since March as online events), with an average of 50 participants, covering topics from EU advocacy to state of the art research around AI, open data or e-privacy. The event also has a loyal remote audience via live stream and broadcasting of various free radio stations across Austria. In addition, it became a valuable platform to find partners, participants, or multipliers for WMAT activities. The initiative is mainly volunteer run and cost neutral, the venue (in case it is used) is an in-kind donation by the local hackspace Metalab.
  • volunteer organizers: (see June Report)
  • what we contributed to this activity: coordination, PR/social media
Program
Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness
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.: 130
  • 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.: 40 (women)
More information
Netzpolitischer Abend AT (in German)

RegiowikiAT (2nd half-year report)[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: a wiki with CC BY-SA 3.0 licensed German-language content about Austria, serves as free knowledge hub for encyclopedic articles not relevant or suitable for Wikipedia
  • volunteer organizers: Karl Gruber
  • what we contributed to this activity: legal and technical website hosting and consulting; information/promotion material
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.: 514 (registered and non-blocked RegiowikiAT users with contributions, excluding Karl Gruber – source, date: 2020-12-31)
  • 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.: 9 (new user accounts on Wikipedia from 2020-01-01 to 2020-12-31 due to parallel registration on RegiowikiAT)
  • Free content beyond Wikimedia projects Freely licensed content pages in Non-Wikimedia projects (e.g. RegioWiki).: 868 (new articles from 2020-07-01 to 2020-12-31)
More information
→ regiowiki.at

Total number of articles (source: https://regiowiki.at/wiki/Regiowiki:Statistik):

until # of articles
12/2014 3,783
06/2015 5,324
12/2015 5,542
06/2016 5,910
12/2016 6,206
06/2017 7,042
12/2017 7,713
06/2018 8,312
12/2018 8,880
06/2019 9,781
12/2019 10,185
06/2020 11,126
12/2020 11.994

Der Brauereiführer (2nd half-year report)[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: a wiki with CC BY-SA 3.0 licensed German-language content about breweries in Austria
  • volunteer organizers: Geiserich77
  • what we contributed to this activity: financial support for website hosting
Program
Community Support
Free Content
Metrics
  • Free content beyond Wikimedia projects Freely licensed content pages in Non-Wikimedia projects (e.g. RegioWiki).: 14 (new articles from 2020-07-01 to 2020-12-31)
More information
→ brauereifuehrer.com

Total number of articles:

until # of articles
12/2014 47
06/2015 62
12/2015 67
06/2016 153
12/2016 200
06/2017 223
12/2017 229
06/2018 235
12/2018 256
06/2019 262
12/2019 275
06/2020 291
12/2020 305

source: https://www.brauereifuehrer.com/wiki/index.php?title=Spezial%3AAlle+Seiten&from=&to=&namespace=0&hideredirects=1

Sustainable outreach network[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: our newsletter and social media channels
  • what we contributed to this activity: staff time

Facebook: WMAT: 1,032, WLE: 320, Wikidaheim: 108, WMAT advent calendar: 91, Wikidata-AT: 50, Wikipedia-AT: 84; Twitter: WMAT: 1,767, Wikidata: 342; Youtube: 25; Instagram: 214; Newsletter: 363, MeetUp: 904= 5,300 accounts reached

Program
Reach / Free Knowledge Awareness

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.: 1,179
  • pages with files The number of pages in the main namespace of Wikimedia projects using new media files.: 242
  • 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.: 120 (featured: 1, quality: 119)
  • useful content Number of distinct new media files used in the main namespace of Wikimedia projects.: 124
  • versatile content Number of total usages of new media files files in main namespace.: 293

– last checked: 2021-02-13

More information
→ Category:Supported by Wikimedia Österreich on Wikimedia Commons
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