Grants talk:PEG/WM AT/Annual Program Plan 2012/Report/Q2

General comment about links

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It would be helpful if you would consider adding links to future reports when more detailed information is available onwiki or elsewhere. Wolliff (talk) 19:27, 3 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

Ortsbildmesse

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You mention this event in the May 2012 and June 2012 activity reports. Would you please provide us with some additional information about the event and clarify exactly how you were involved and how involvement in the event is related to your mission? Links might be helpful here as well. Wolliff (talk) 19:27, 3 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

Some questions about progress toward your Annual Plan

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We haven't yet seen information about the following projects and are interested in their progress:

Admont Abbey project
Schools & Universities projects in Tyrol and Vorarlberg

Would you please provide us with an update? Thanks! Wolliff (talk) 19:27, 3 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

Answers

These answers were partly taken from the reports of Q3, which have not been published yet.

Ortsbildmesse

Ortsbildmesse is an annual fair regarding the development of villages and towns in the federal province of Upper Austria. It is within the scope of our program to get in touch with local authorities and population to gain more information about the villages and towns for Wikipedia. Photographs and books containing historical or geographical information are provided by the local authorities and archives as well as by the inhabitants of that regions. Additionally the people get involved in editing Wikipedia.

The government of Upper Austria invited WMAT in December 2011 to take part of the fair on August 25 in the city of Perg, to present Wikimedia and Wikipedia. No commercial companies are allowed at the fair and it is thought to be an exchange of ideas, presenting the cultural and historic heritage of the villages and incorporated communities as well as the planned development for the future. A group of volunteer Wikimedians organized four events for that day:

an information booth of Wikipedia and Wikimedia
an exhibition of the awarded photographs of Europe and of Austria gathered during the 2011 Wiki Loves Monuments campaign on Wikimedia Commons
the opening of the 2012 season of Wiki Loves Monuments
workshops about editing Wikipedia, providing photographs to Wikimedia Commons under a free license and how to participate in the WLM photo competition

The events were organized in de.wikipedia http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ober%C3%B6sterreich/Ortsbildmesse.

The information booth was on the main street of Perg and about 20.000 visitors could get information about Wikipedia and Wikimedia there.
About 15 volunteers visited the information desks of about 120 villages at the fair during the day, presenting outprints of the articles about their villages from Wikipedia and giving lists of lacking information and photographs in their area to them. They also were provided with brochures about Wikipedia and Wikimedia produced by WMAT during the first half of 2012. Representatives of those villages and towns could be contacted on that day personally without travelling through the coutry from one community to another. WMAT and Wikipedia received many questions and contributions from those villages later.
The award winning photographs of WLM were presented by a local gallery and will be shown there until the end of the year. The exhibition was opened by members of the government of Upper Austria and four members of the board of WMAT. The exhibition was the prototype for a touring exhibition of the award winning photographs of WLM 2012 planned next year.
The WLM season 2012 for Austria was opened by the Landeshauptmann-Stellvertreter (vice governor) of Upper Austria by shooting photographs of protected old buildings in Perg and uploading them under a free licence to Wikimedia Commons. The event was watched and published by local media.
The workshops were performed in a hall next to the main square of Perg by experienced Wikipedia volunteers and members of the board of WMAT
WMAT supported the volunteers providing travel costs and food as well as information material and t-shirts.

Admont Abbey Project

"Admont Abbey project" is the working title of WMAT's effort to support the digitalization of free content. Since 2010 we are in contact with the famous old library of the Abbey of Admont and other GLAM-institutions in Austria. For the project of scanning the card index of the famous library the application of a bookscanner was planned. Other projects of scanning old books for publication under a free license were discussed with old libraries in Lower Austria. Information about bookscanners were requested. The General Assembly of WMAT in 2011 approved the co-funding of a bookscanner and software in cooperation with the community budget plan of de.wikipedia funded by WMDE. In 2012 the dissemination committee of the community budget plan of de.wikipedia decided to buy a bookscanner in consent with the board of WMDE. WMAT provided additional hardware like storage media and laptop as well as software licences. The bookscanner is in use since July 2012 at the library of the federal authority for the monuments of Austria in Vienna. Wikimedian volunteers digitalize old books for publication in Wikisource and Wikimedia Commons under a free licence as a pilot project. Plans for the transfer of the scanner and software to other libraries in the German speaking countries to save the content of old books have been made.

Links to the bookscanner-project in de.ikipedia:

Universities

Universities: Activities at universities and colleges in Austria are supported in cooperation with the correspondent programs of WMDE. The main goal is to achieve content for de.wikipedia by students and staff of the universities. At the same time the implementation of Mediawiki software for educational purposes and information about working with Wikimedia projects in academic environment could be facilitated. Presentations were introduced at the University of Vienna, the University for Medicine in Vienna, the University of Applied Sciences in Vorarlberg, the University of Innsbruck and the University of Graz.

University of Innsbruck, Tyrol

The biological faculty of the University of Innsbruck in Tyrol is presenting Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects to the students by lectures during the first semesters. The students have to work with local installations of mediawiki software. In a wiki of the university they prepare articles for Wikipedia about species and biological terms. The aim of the staff of the university is to show the differences between writing scientific papers and the presentation of scientific knowledge to the broad public. The principles of editing Wikipedia like "Wikipedia:No original research" and "Wikipedia:Verifyability" are demonstrated. The work of the students in their wiki is reviewed by the staff and afterwards implemented to de.wikipedia, where it is reviewed again by the editors of the community portals and project pages for biology and animals. The students discuss their edits and answer questions at the discussion pages of the articles in Wikipedia. Contacts and meetings between students, staff and Wikipedia editors as well as WMAT members have been established. On Sept. 1st some students and staff members of the university presented their project at WikiCon 2012 (see Grants:WM AT/WikiCon 2012/Report), organized by WMAT. At the beginning of the new semester in autumn of 2012, the lectures will be supported by an editor of the community portal for biology of de.wikipedia. WMAT supports the meetings assuming travel costs and organisational provisions.

Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences

The main goal of the relationship between WMAT and the University of Applied Sciences in Vorarlberg first was to achieve content for de.wikipedia by students and staff of the university in the areas of business, engineering and technology, design and the social sciences. The beginning of the cooperation reaches back to the year 2010, when a new professor wanted to establish a wiki for articles about economy for educational purposes. He knew it from the University of Jena, Germany, where such a wiki was built in cooperation with de.wikipedia and WMDE, where it is called wiwiwiki (Wirtschaftswissenschaften-Wiki). Aim of that program is the transfer of articles to de.wikipedia with the help of the community portal:economy. Since 2008 de.wikipedia has got many featured articles from different universities from that program.

With the help of WMAT and the approval by the rector a similar structure could be set up for the students of the Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences in 2011. Since then the relations to the staff were expanded, because it supported initiatives in the areas of Open Source, Open Design and Free Licenses. Together with WMAT they developed projects for Wictionary and Wikibooks. WMAT had an info-desk there in 2011 during the Linux-Day where further contacts to students and co-workers of open source projects could be established.

The cooperation led to the provision of all the rooms and facilities of the University for the WikiCon 2012 (see: Grants:WM AT/WikiCon 2012/Report) from Aug. 30th to Sep. 1st and helping with the organisation of this meeting for more than 200 Wikipedians and Wikimedians. The professors and students provided workshops, panels and presentations about the future of Open Source and Free Licenses. The cooperation is going on.

Report accepted

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Thank you for the updates on your activities. This report is accepted. We look forward to reviewing your next report soon. Wolliff (talk) 19:51, 4 October 2012 (UTC)Reply