Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Wikimedia Österreich/May 2019

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May 2019
Report

Wikidata workshop @ Linuxtage Wien[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: half day wikidata workshop in cooperation with the Vienna Linux weeks
  • volunteer organizers: Jean-Frédéric, Informatom
  • what we contributed to this activity: coordination and communication, staff support, snacks
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.: 15
  • 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 non-male)
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event page

Edit-a-thon Sommeruni[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: editing Wikiversity and Wikipedia as an integral part of a university course by the University of Vienna, on this occasion with an edit-a-thon to collectively write a new article
  • volunteer organizers: Agruwie, Beppo Stuhl, JoKalliauer
  • what we contributed to this activity: staff time, information material
Program
Community Support
Free Content
Metrics
More information
Course page in German-language Wikiversity

30th Wikipedia Writing Contest[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.: 30
  • 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: 33 (new or improved German-language Wikipedia articles)
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Wikipedia:Schreibwettbewerb in German-language Wikipedia

Creative Commons Summit in Lisbon[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: our ED attended the CC Summit this year in order to network around the Strategy Process and learn from their stakeholders about their recent governance reform. The event was also useful to get new input and inspiration around equity, diversity and inclusion from a like-minded community and to catch up on common challenges such as the EU copyright reform
  • what we contributed to this activity: travel costs, 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.: 1

Commons Photography Workshop in Linz[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: our monthly meeting with and of the community in Upper Austria. On this saturday we offered to get to know WMAT's equipment for studio photography and used it to take pictures of bread an pastries.
  • what we contributed to this activity: project lead, travel costs for staff, snacks and drinks
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.: 5
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Category on Commons
Wikipedia workshops in Linz on WMAT website (in German)
Wikipedia:Oberösterreich/Wikipedia Café in German-language Wikipedia

WikidataWednesday[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: as an addition to our Wikidata workshops and outreach events, our Wikidata group decided to host a monthly meeting for Wikidata newbies, enthusiats and everybody in between. They meet every months for an evening to work on Wikidata projects together, develop new ideas or help each other with questions and problems.
  • volunteer organizers: Jean-Frédéric
  • what we contributed to this activity: Venue, communication (social media etc.), snacks, staff 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.: 6
  • 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: 4 (4 improved Wikidata items)
  • 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
WikidataWednesday on Wikidata

Wikimedia CEE Spring[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: Spiritia, Papuass, Philip Kopetzky, Magalia, Masti, Strainu
  • 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.: 500
  • 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.: 127
  • 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: 12410 (new or improved Wikipedia articles in 24 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.: 48 (editors declaring to be female)
  • retention The number of new editors still active 12 weeks after registration.: too early to collect the data
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Wikimedia CEE Spring 2019 on meta.wikimedia.org
lang. count lang. count lang. count lang. count
el 331 ru 217 pl 1223 hu 902
eo 34 tt 54 be 4 ka 68
myv 180 tr 172 bg 688 sr 620
hy 1196 lv 865 ba 867 mk 163
et 274 lt 217 hr 474 be-tarask 370
az 347 ro 588 de 498 uk 2058

Wikimedia Hackathon 2019 in Prague[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: travel support for interested members of the Austrian Wikidata group to foster international cooperation and better inclusion in the wider movement, our particpants either contributed to showcase projects or served as mentors at the Hackathon
  • what we contributed to this activity: travel support for five participants Jampo001, Pebaryan, Simon04, Thomas Ledl, Tobias1984
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.: 6
  • 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.: 63 (2 dewiki improved, 18 new Wikimedia Commons files, 4 Wikidata items created, 39 Wikidata items created)
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Results and reports
Media files on Wikimedia Commons

International Museums Day campaign[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: CentralNotice awareness campaign (English, German, French, Italian) by WMCH, WMAT and WMDE around the International Museum Day; including a map with missing content about museums in Switzerland, Austria and Germany based on Wikidata
  • what we contributed to this activity: coordination for Austria
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 (people involved in partner chapters)
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English landing page
Geographic Museums Map
Geographic Museums Map
landing page page views
from 2019-05-06
to 2019-05-22
Wikimedia DACH/Museum Day 2019 (en) 674
Wikimedia DACH/Museum Day 2019/de 1119
Wikimedia DACH/Museum Day 2019/fr 83
Wikimedia DACH/Museum Day 2019/it 64
total 1940

WikiGap in Swedish Embassy[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: A WikiGap event with panel discussion and edit-a-thon at the Embassy of Sweden in Vienna. Organized in cooperation with the embassy and the students of SAGE (Students Advocating Gender Equality).
  • volunteer organizers: ClaraBohman (SAGE)
  • what we contributed to this activity: Preparations for the event and especially the edit-a-thon, two staff members
Program
Community Support
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.: 40 (approximately)
  • 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.: 13
  • 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: 4 (new: 1, 2, 3, 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.: 32 (women, different heritages/nationalities/languages)
  • retention The number of new editors still active 12 weeks after registration.: too early to collect the data
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WikiGap at the Embassy of Sweden in Vienna
WikiGap on meta

WikiDienstag 2019-05-07[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: regular community meet-up in WMAT's office; this time with our monthly public Wikipedia consultation for newbies with experienced users
  • volunteer organizers: Nadine 13131
  • what we contributed to this activity: equipped room in our office, snacks/drinks
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.: 6
More information
WikiDienstag in the German-language Wikipedia

WikiDienstag 2019-05-14[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: regular community meet-up in WMAT's office; this time open meeting
  • volunteer organizers: Regiomontanus
  • what we contributed to this activity: equipped room in our office, snacks/drinks
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
More information
WikiDienstag in the German-language Wikipedia

WikiDienstag 2019-05-21[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: regular community meet-up in WMAT's office; this time scanning old photographs for Wikimedia Commmons with WMAT's A3 scanner
  • volunteer organizers: Funke
  • what we contributed to this activity: equipped room in our office, snacks/drinks
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.: 5
More information
WikiDienstag in the German-language Wikipedia

WikiDienstag 2019-05-28[edit]

Basics
  • in a nutshell: regular community meet-up in WMAT's office; this time we discussed WMAT's selection for the affiliate selected board seats and input from our community on the scoping documents of the movement strategy process (part of the input was prepared by the expert group for international affairs)
  • what we contributed to this activity: equipped room in our office, snacks/drinks, 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.: 6
More information
WikiDienstag in the German-language 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.: 15,034
  • pages with files The number of pages in the main namespace of Wikimedia projects using new media files.: 482*
  • quality The number of community decorations (featured, quality, valued) for new media files on Wikimedia Commons.: 0
  • useful content The number of distinct new media files used in the main namespace of Wikimedia projects.: 262
  • versatile content The number of total usage of new media files in the main namespace of Wikimedia projects.: 460

– last checked: 2019-08-02

* the tool GLAMorous 2 is not working for more than a year now; therefore this number is only a calculation based upon the results from Jan to Jun 2018: 1 useful content ≙ 1.84 pages with files
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Category:Supported by Wikimedia Österreich on Wikimedia Commons
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