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September 2019
Report

WMAT strategy meeting

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Basics
  • in a nutshell: Every year in summer, the WMAT board and some of the staff go on a strategy offsite in order to check how the year has been progressing and to prepare the annual plan and budget for the next year. This year we tackled some additional tasks regarding organisational development: The general assembly tasked us with reforming our election process.
  • what we contributed to this activity: Travel costs, accomodation and venue, food, 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.: 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.: 2 (female and non-Austrian)
More information
→ The results of our planning are discussed with our community in the context of planning labs

WikiProject Traditional Crafts: The Pocketknives of Trattenbach

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Basics
  • in a nutshell: start of the new German-language WikiProject Traditional Crafts with documenting (text, photo, video) the intangible cultural heritage of the pocketknives in Trattenbach, Upper Austria
  • volunteer organizers: Geolina163
  • what we contributed to this activity: project coordination, travel grants
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.: 15
  • 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: 18 (see table below)
More information
→ Project page in German-language Wikipedia
→ Media files on Wikimedia Commons
→ Final report (PDF, in German)
Results
new or improved German-language Wikipedia articles 18
(new: 14, improved: 4)
new media files on Wikimedia Commons 697
new RegiowikiAT articles 31

Upper Austrian Townscape Fair 2019 in Ternberg

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Basics
  • in a nutshell: presentation of Wikipedia and of Wikimedia Austria's projects related to regional culture like WikiDaheim
  • volunteer organizers: 1971markus, Agruwie, Dromedar61, Geolina163, Haeferl, Regiomontanus
  • what we contributed to this activity: organization of and costs for fair booth
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.: 117 (direct contacts with fair visitors and exhibitors)
More information
→ Event page in German-language Wikipedia
→ Media files on Wikimedia Commons
→ Municipality of Ternberg: Townscape Fair 2019 (in German)
→ Upper Austrian State Federation of Village and Urban Development Associations: Townscape Fair 2019 (in German)

Wikipedia Café in Linz

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Basics
  • in a nutshell: monthly get-together of the Upper Austrian Wikimedia community in Linz, Upper Austria.
  • what we contributed to this activity: project lead, travel costs for staff
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
More information
→ Wikipedia:Oberösterreich/Wikipedia Café in German-language Wikipedia

Photo project at the International Motor Show IAA in Germany

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Basics
  • in a nutshell: photography at the International Motor Show Germany (Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung IAA)
  • volunteer organizers: Johannes Maximilian
  • what we contributed to this activity: travel costs, equipment for photography
Program
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
More information
→ Commons category of images
project results
Wikimedia Commons 811 new media files on Wikimedia Commons, 377 distinct images used in main namespace of Wikimedia projects, with 1192 total image usages

WikidataWednesday 2019-09-18

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Basics
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.: 2
  • 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: 431 (10 new items)
More information
→ WikidataWednesday on Wikidata

Wikiversity: Europaforum Wachau

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Basics
  • in a nutshell: Wikiversity and Wikipedia editing as integral part of a university course by the University of Vienna in cooperation with Europa-Forum Wachau
  • volunteer organizers: Agruwie, Karl Gruber, JoKalliauer, Regiomontanus
  • what we contributed to this activity: co-organisation, information material, travel costs for volunteer organizers
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.: 24
  • 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.: 20
  • 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: 11 (5 new dewiki articles, 3 improved dewiki articles, 1 improved enwiki article, 1 improved frwiki article, 1 improved rowiki article)
  • 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.: 17 (17 female participants)
  • retention The number of new editors still active 12 weeks after registration.: 19 – last checked: 2020-03-26
More information
→ Course page in German-language Wikiversity
→ Media files on Wikimedia Commons

Monuments Day

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Basics
  • in a nutshell: presenting Wikipedia and Wikimedia Austria, especially our projects to reach new authors and contributors and the photo contest WikiDaheim, as guests of Federal Monuments Office at their rooms at Vienna Hofburg; additionally supporting photographers who travelled through Austria to take pictures of monuments
  • volunteer organizers: Regiomontanus
  • what we contributed to this activity: staff time, technical equipment, promotional material
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.: 700 contacts at Hofburg (200 conversations)
More information
→ Official website of Tag des Denkmals, archive 2019

WikiDienstag 2019-09-03

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Basics
  • in a nutshell: regular community meet-up in WMAT's office; this time including the 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
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.: 7
More information
→ WikiDienstag in the German-language Wikipedia

WikiDienstag 2019-09-10

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Basics
  • in a nutshell: regular community meet-up in WMAT's office; this time review of WikiProject Traditional Crafts: The Pocketknives of Trattenbach
  • volunteer organizers: Agruwie
  • what we contributed to this activity: equipped room in our office, snacks/drinks
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
More information
→ WikiDienstag in the German-language Wikipedia

WikiDienstag 2019-09-17

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Basics
  • in a nutshell: regular community meet-up in WMAT's office; this time in preparation of Tag des Dankmals 2019 (Monuments Day)
  • volunteer organizers: Regiomontanus
  • what we contributed to this activity: equipped room in our office, snacks/drinks; material for the event
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.: 4
More information
→ WikiDienstag in the German-language Wikipedia

WikiDienstag 2019-09-24

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

Supported media files and pages using media files

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Basics
  • in a nutshell: supported media files uploaded on Wikimedia Commons from 2019-09-01 to 2019-09-30
  • volunteer organizers: Haeferl, Alexander-93, Tsui; Krd, Svema, Pistenwolf, MarkusFelix and 2eight for Festivalsommer
  • what we contributed to this activity: equipment from our tech pool, accreditations for events, travel grants, post-processing software, skill transfer activities and/or support related to other activities
Program
Free Content
Metrics
  • new files The number of new media files uploaded on Wikimedia Commons.: 14,616
  • pages with files The number of pages in the main namespace of Wikimedia projects using new media files.: 1,943
  • quality The number of community decorations (featured, quality, valued) for new media files on Wikimedia Commons.: 328 (featured: 15, quality: 295, valued: 18)
  • useful content The number of distinct new media files used in the main namespace of Wikimedia projects.: 1,215
  • versatile content The number of total usage of new media files in the main namespace of Wikimedia projects.: 3,047

– last checked: 2020-02-18

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