in a nutshell: WMAT's general assembly with elections of the board, the auditors and the good governance committee; both the assembly and the (earlier) elections were held online for the first time
what we contributed to this activity: coordination, technical solutions
Selected results from all previous community surveys
Which of the following groups support you in your work in Wikipedia and/or other Wikimedia projects?
To what extent does this statement apply to you: I was supported by Wikimedia Austria directly and/or participated in activities supported by Wikimedia Austria (competitions, events ...) which motivated me to continue contributing content to Wikipedia and/or another Wikimedia project.
in a nutshell: multilingual campaign around the International Archives Week, led by WMCH, together with WMAT and WMDE, with a call to improve the presence of archives on Wikimedia projects
what we contributed to this activity: co-organisation
in a nutshell: university course in cooperation of the University of Vienna and Wikiversity Austria, the students learned about Wikipedia and writing articles
in a nutshell: regular meet-up of female authors mostly from Germany, now using WMAT's technical platform for video conferencing and inviting participants from everywhere
in a nutshell: WMAT's weekly tuesday meet-up of the Austrian and as a video conference also the whole German speaking community; further development of the common page about video conferences for all German speaking communities on de.wikipedia
what we contributed to this activity: organization, hosting
in a nutshell: WMAT's weekly tuesday meet-up of the Austrian and as a video conference also the whole German speaking community; further development of the common page about video conferences for all German speaking communities on de.wikipedia
what we contributed to this activity: organization, hosting
in a nutshell: WMAT's weekly tuesday meet-up of the Austrian and as a video conference also the whole German speaking community; further development of the common page about video conferences for all German speaking communities on de.wikipedia
what we contributed to this activity: organization, hosting
in a nutshell: WMAT's weekly tuesday meet-up of the Austrian and as a video conference also the whole German speaking community; this time dedicated to the beginning of Wikimedia Austria's annual photography competition WikiDaheim on July 1st.
what we contributed to this activity: equipment from our tech pool, travel grants, post-processing software, skill transfer activities and/or support related to other activities
in a nutshell: We co-hosted 6 netpolitical evenings as of June 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 is an in-kind donation by the local hackspace Metalab.
volunteer organizers: NetzPAT volunteer team:
Roland Alton
Meral Akin-Hecke
Alexander Baratsits
Konrad Becker
Tano Bojankin
Paolo Budroni
Wolfie Christl
Andreas Czák
Andreas Demmelbauer
Leonhard Dobusch
Helge Fahrenberger
Sonja Fischbauer
Claudia Garád
Herbert Gnauer
Ingrid Gogl
Werner Illsinger
Stefan Kasberger
Sylvia Kuba
Christoph Lampert
Nicole Lieger
Thomas Lohninger
Joachim Losehand
Astrid Mager
Katja Mayer
Stefan Pawel
Sylvia Petrovic-Majer
Magdalena Reiter
Us(c)hi Reiter
Sarah Spiekermann
Felix Stalder
Paul Stepan
Brigitte Theissl
Barbara Wimmer
Michela Vignoli
what we contributed to this activity: coordination, PR/social media
Project Social Topics on Wikipedia (half-year report)[edit]
Basics
in a nutshell: Together with Caritas Österreich / Caritas Wien, one of the biggest volunteer organisations in the German-speaking world, we launched this project in November 2019: a group of Wikipedia newbies contributes and improves content about social topics on Wikipedia. At the heart of the project are regular offline meetings, which had to be discontinued in March.
what we contributed to this activity: concept, coordination; equipped room in our office, snacks/drinks
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
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