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June 2021
Report

WMAT general assembly

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Basics
  • in a nutshell: This year's assembly focussed on our new mid-term strategy until 2025. The strategy was designed in a collaborative and iterative process between board, staff and volunteers over the past few months. The general assembly approved of the new strategic direction, the next step will be the implementation and formulation of concrete goals and metrics. Unfortunately, this process is blocked by a lack of information regarding the requirements of the new WMF grantmaking procedures.
  • volunteer organizers: -
  • what we contributed to this activity: Preparation, communication, organisation, technical 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.: 25
  • 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.: 14 (8 women, 6 foreigner)
More information
→ project page

Wikiversity Austria: Europa-Forum Wachau course

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Basics
  • in a nutshell: regular course at the University of Vienna about Europa-Forum Wachau, including a Wikipedia course and Wikipedia editing by the students, held online (start date: 2021-03-05, end date: 2021-06-25)
  • volunteer organizers: Agruwie, Regiomontanus
  • what we contributed to this activity: conducting workshops and lectures, information material, video conference platform
Program
Awareness and Change
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
  • 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.: 12
  • 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 dewiki articles)
  • 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.: 7 (7 female students)
More information
→ Course page in German-language Wikiversity

OSSBIG 21 Conference

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Basics
  • in a nutshell: OSSBIG is an Austrian charity which aims at fostering the use of open source solutions public administration and business. This year we were invited to their annual conference to talk about 20 years of Wikipedia and the role of free knowledge for digital self-determination in the European context.
  • what we contributed to this activity: Presentation about Wikmedia/Wikipedia from our ED
Program
Awareness and Change
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.: 61
  • 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.: 10 (non-male attendees)
More information
→ event page

Regional European Affiliates Transition Event

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Basics
  • in a nutshell: Meeting of European communities to discuss the implementation of the 2030 Movement Strategy in Europe.
  • volunteer organizers: Braveheart
  • what we contributed to this activity: co-host and co-organiser
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.: 40
  • 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.: 40 (non-austrian)
More information
→ event page on Meta

Guest lecture and workshop at an university course about Wikipedia Studies

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Basics
  • in a nutshell: Guest lecture about Wikimedia as an organization and the basics of contributing to Wikipedia and a workshop on writing articles as part of a course at the University of Vienna on Wikipedia Studies with special emphasis on Women in Red. The students also received Wikipedia goodies (branded bag and pen, a handbook about the VisualEditor etc.) at the end.
  • what we contributed to this activity: preparation and presentation of the lecture
Program
Community Support
Awareness and Change
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.: 17
  • 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.: 17
  • 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.: 16 (16 women)
More information
→ "Frauen* in Rot" Anwendungsorientierte Wikipedia Studies at the University of Vienna

Netpolitical Evenings (half-year report)

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Basics
  • in a nutshell: We co-hosted 6 netpolitical evenings as of June 2021 as online events, with an average of 30 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.
  • volunteer team:
  • Roland Alton
  • Meral Akin-Hecke
  • Alexander Baratsits
  • Konrad Becker
  • Tano Bojankin
  • Paolo Budroni
  • Wolfie Christl
  • Sandra Barth
  • 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: video documentation, coordination, PR/social media
Program
Awareness and Change
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.: 180
  • 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.: 80 (non-male)
More information
→ homepage

Fiscal sponsorship: Wiki Loves Monuments 2020

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Basics
  • in a nutshell: fiscal sponsorship for the international Wiki Loves Monuments team
  • volunteer organizers: André, Erina, Jean-Fred, Krishna Chaitanya, Lily, Lodewijk, Mohammad, Romaine
  • what we contributed to this activity: fiscal sponsorship
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.: 7671
  • 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.: 5184
  • 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.: 230002 (media files)
  • 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.: 1594 (featured: 89, quality: 1488, valued: 17)
More information
→ wikilovesmonuments.org
→ Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2020
→ Statistics

RegiowikiAT (half-year report)

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Basics
  • 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
  • volunteer organizers: Karl Gruber
  • what we contributed to this activity: legal and technical website hosting and consulting; information/promotion material
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.: 540 (registered and non-blocked RegiowikiAT users with contributions, excluding Karl Gruber – source, date: 2021-06-30)
  • 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.: 8 (new user accounts on Wikipedia from 2021-01-01 to 2021-06-30 due to parallel registration on RegiowikiAT)
  • Free content beyond Wikimedia projects Freely licensed content pages in Non-Wikimedia projects (e.g. RegioWiki).: 749 (new articles from 2021-01-01 to 2021-06-30)
More information
→ regiowiki.at

Total number of articles (source: https://regiowiki.at/wiki/Regiowiki:Statistik):

until # of articles
12/2014 3,783
06/2015 5,324
12/2015 5,542
06/2016 5,910
12/2016 6,206
06/2017 7,042
12/2017 7,713
06/2018 8,312
12/2018 8,880
06/2019 9,781
12/2019 10,185
06/2020 11,126
12/2020 11,994
06/2021 12,743

Partners, projects, international finances expert group meeting 2021-06-24

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Basics
  • in a nutshell: video conference of one of WMAT's expert groups; general update on global Wikimedia developments
  • volunteer organizers: Philip Kopetzky
  • what we contributed to this activity: facilitation, video conference tool
Program
Awareness and Change
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.: 1 (1 Non-Austrian)
More information
→ WMAT's expert groups in members wiki (in German)


Networking event with Cultural Broadcasting Archive (CBA)

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Basics
  • in a nutshell: Networking event with various free radio communities to talk about joint action around the new broadcasting legislation in Austria.
  • what we contributed to this activity: input on WMAT campaign
Program
Awareness and Change
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 (non-male)

Strategy Implementation Meeting BXL operations (FKAGEU)

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Basics
  • in a nutshell: workshop on the future governance, structure and support process for the EU advocacy team.
Program
Awareness and Change
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
  • 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.: 6 (Non-Austrian)

Wikidata WikiDaheim preparation project

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Basics
  • in a nutshell: project for the improvement of Austria-related Wikidata items in preparation for the WikiDaheim photo competition starting in July, from 2021-01-01 to 2021-06-30
  • what we contributed to this activity: coordination
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.: 3
  • 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: 43,425 (new or improved Wikidata items)
More information
→ Dashboard
→ wikidaheim.at

Wiki Loves Earth Austria preparation meeting

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Basics
  • in a nutshell: meeting of the volunteers organizing Wiki Loves Earth Austria
  • volunteer organizers: Ailura, Haeferl
  • what we contributed to this activity: help with organization, technical hosting
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
  • 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 women)
More information
→ Project page on de.wikipedia

Der Brauereiführer (half-year report)

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Basics
  • in a nutshell: a wiki with CC BY-SA 3.0 licensed German-language content about breweries in Austria
  • volunteer organizers: Geiserich77
  • what we contributed to this activity: financial support for website hosting
Program
Community Support
Free Content
Metrics
  • Free content beyond Wikimedia projects Freely licensed content pages in Non-Wikimedia projects (e.g. RegioWiki).: 8 (new articles from 2021-01-01 to 2021-06-30)
More information
→ brauereifuehrer.com

Total number of articles:

until # of articles
12/2014 47
06/2015 62
12/2015 67
06/2016 153
12/2016 200
06/2017 223
12/2017 229
06/2018 235
12/2018 256
06/2019 262
12/2019 275
06/2020 291
12/2020 305
06/2021 313

source: https://www.brauereifuehrer.com/wiki/Spezial:Alle_Seiten?from=&to=&namespace=0&hideredirects=1

WikiDienstag 2021-06-01

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Basics
  • in a nutshell: Meeting of the group preparing WikiDaheim 2021
  • volunteer organizers: Braveheart
  • what we contributed to this activity: organization, technical hosting
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
  • 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 women)
More information
→ wikidaheim.at

Kultur-WikiDienstag 2021-06-15

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Basics
  • in a nutshell: a second online visit to the Museum of Art History (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien) where the head of the department of art education presented and explained a medieval board game in its historical context.
  • what we contributed to this activity: organization
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.: 22
  • 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.: 19 (2 women AT, 7 non Austrian women, 10 non Austrian men)
More information
→ project page on de.wikipedia

Sustainable outreach network (half-year report)

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Basics
  • in a nutshell: our newsletter and social media channels
  • what we contributed to this activity: staff time

Facebook: WMAT: 1,035, WLE Austria: 318, Wikidaheim: 108, WMAT advent calendar: 89, Wikidata-AT: 49, Wikipedia-AT: 82; Twitter: WMAT: 1,838, Wikidata: 378; Youtube: 29; Instagram: 294; Newsletter: 366, MeetUp: 907 = 5,493 accounts reached

Program
Awareness and Change

Supported media files and pages using media files

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Basics
Program
Free Content
Metrics
  • new files The number of new media files uploaded on Wikimedia Commons.: 176
  • pages with files The number of pages in the main namespace of Wikimedia projects using new media files.: 211
  • 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.: 1 (quality: 1)
  • useful content Number of distinct new media files used in the main namespace of Wikimedia projects.: 84
  • versatile content Number of total usages of new media files files in main namespace.: 228

– last checked: 2021-07-27

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