Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Wikimedia Österreich/July 2020

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July 2020
Report

Open Letter: Internet Regulation[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: The Austrian federal government planned a new internet regulation act; we were concerned that overly rigid deadlines backed by sanctions, as well as unilateral threats of punishment, could endanger community-based moderation models such as Wikimedia projects. We therefore joined epicenter.works in an open letter to two Austrian federal ministers.
  • volunteer organizers: UlliZ
  • what we contributed to this activity: co-drafting of the letter, 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.: 12
More information
→ Open Letter on wikimedia.at (in German)

Video conference: Wikimedians in Residence[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: international video conference with Wikimedians exchanging their experiences with Wikimedian-in-Residence programs
  • volunteer organizers: Layka100
  • what we contributed to this activity: organisation, video conference 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.: 8

32nd Wikipedia Writing Competition[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.: 31
  • 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: 36 (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.: 16 (9 quality articles + 7 featured articles)
More information
→ Project Page on de.wikipedia

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.: 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.: 5 (5 foreign women)
More information
→ project page Wikipedia-Stuttgart on de.wikipedia

Radio Contents for Wikipedia, online meeting[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: considering the opportunities of a collaboration with an Austrian broadcasting archive, discussing which kind of radio contents can be useful for Wikipedia in which form
  • what we contributed to this activity: technical platform and hosting, organisation
Program
Free Content
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.: 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.: 1 (1 foreigner)
More information
→ project page on de.wikipedia

Organisational development expert group meeting 2020-07-23[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: video conference of one of WMAT's expert groups; planning the expert group's activities for the rest of the year
  • volunteer organizers: UlliZ
  • 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.: 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 (1 women, 1 foreigner)
More information
→ WMAT's expert groups in members wiki (in German)

Wikimedia Commons expert group meeting 2020-07-30[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: video conference of one of WMAT's expert groups; discussing and planning the pool of equipment for picture production and publishing
  • volunteer organizers: Agruwie
  • what we contributed to this activity: facilitation, video conference tool, equipment for photography
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.: 2
  • 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)
→ the collective portal of WMAT, WMDE and WMCH for available technical equipment (in German)
→ WMAT's list of available technical equipment (in German)

Partners, projects, international finances expert group meeting 2020-07-22[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: video conference of one of WMAT's expert groups; general update on global Wikimedia developments and inviting new expert group members from other countries
  • volunteer organizers: Philip Kopetzky
  • what we contributed to this activity: facilitation, video conference tool
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.: 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.: 2 (2 foreigners)
More information
→ WMAT's expert groups in members wiki (in German)

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.: 13,005
  • pages with files The number of pages in the main namespace of Wikimedia projects using new media files.: 1,593
  • 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.: 98 (featured: 3, quality: 93, valued: 2)
  • useful content Number of distinct new media files used in the main namespace of Wikimedia projects.: 1,048
  • versatile content Number of total usages of new media files files in main namespace.: 2,581

– last checked: 2021-02-12

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