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'''What did we achieve so far?'''
'''What did we achieve so far?'''
[[File:WMAT-Photography-Project-Austrian-Film-Infographic.jpg|thumb|Photography project Austrian Film]]
[[File:WMAT-Photography-Project-Austrian-Film-Infographic.jpg|thumb|Photography project Austrian Film]]
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Once again our numbers demonstrate how active and quality aware the Austrian photography community is. The number of quality images reached an all time high of 3.200 in the first six months of the year, summing up to almost 15% of our overall amount of WMAT supported media files - these are outstanding numbers even in international comparison with bigger affiliates and communities. The usage of our pictures in Wikimedia projects is also above target. Factors that contributed to this success are targeted and well-planned and prepared projects such as the photography project Austrian film: Articles about the participating filmmakers and actors we prepared before the project, with a focus on creating missing articles, the improvement of
exisiting
articles mainly happened during and after the project. As a result there are high quality articles and pictures of 46 Austrian filmmakers, 40% of which are new or improved female biographies. A similar concept works for the Wiki Loves Parliament projects which we support in Germany and soon also in Austria again. Apart from concrete projects there is a regular on- and offline exchange between our wider community (in the DACH region) on photography skills and know-how, that WMAT facilitates with infrastructure (e.g. coordination of equipment rentals and acquisitions), pairing volunteers with different skill sets, and offline events (such as the WikiTuesdays, see Program 1).
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Once again our numbers demonstrate how active and quality aware the Austrian photography community is. The number of quality images reached an all time high of 3.200 in the first six months of the year, summing up to almost 15% of our overall amount of WMAT supported media files - these are outstanding numbers even in international comparison with bigger affiliates and communities. The usage of our pictures in Wikimedia projects is also above target. Factors that contributed to this success are targeted and well-planned and prepared projects such as the photography project Austrian film: Articles about the participating filmmakers and actors we prepared before the project, with a focus on creating missing articles, the improvement of
existing
articles mainly happened during and after the project. As a result there are high quality articles and pictures of 46 Austrian filmmakers, 40% of which are new or improved female biographies. A similar concept works for the Wiki Loves Parliament projects which we support in Germany and soon also in Austria again. Apart from concrete projects there is a regular on- and offline exchange between our wider community (in the DACH region) on photography skills and know-how, that WMAT facilitates with infrastructure (e.g. coordination of equipment rentals and acquisitions), pairing volunteers with different skill sets, and offline events (such as the WikiTuesdays, see Program 1).
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Another focus of ours is the diversity of content - especially of supplementation of
exisiting
text and pictures with video- and/or audiofiles. We believe that this is cruical to keep Wikipedia attractive for audiences who are used to
consum
information via multimedia channels. We see huge potential in this regard in our cooperation with the simpleshow foundation: Videos have become a popular format for the dissemination of information - especially short animated explainer videos which provide a quick overview over complex topics. The same principle applies to Wikipedia - videos can enrich
exisiting
content and provide an entertaining and easily comprehensible access to free knowledge. Together with experts from the simpleshow foundation Wikimedia Österreich offers workshops for Wikimedians which are designed to learn the tricks of the trade of screenwriting for explainer videos. [https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Explainer_Video_Workshop This year's workshop at Wikimania] took our collaboration to the next level, as we developed a new freeware, which enables volunteers to produce the videos themselves, which also resulted in three videos being completed by the end of the workshop and a lot of enthusiasm on the side of the participants. The cooperation started as an incubator project last year and while we first thought of it mainly in terms of expanding the
exisiting
community with newbie film makers, we now see that the main potential lies in the
exisiting
community using this as an
additonal
medium to enrich
exisiting
formats of knowledge transfer. The mysimpleshow-freeware makes it possible to convert
exisiting
material into short videos without any previous knowledge or technical skill regarding filmmaking. While the educational value for Commons has more or less become a consensus, the use of videos in the Wikipedias is still a challenge and requires more extensive discussions with the
communties
. The cooperation with simpleshow has been embraced by the WikiProject Medicine as useful for their purposes and they currently help us [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Simpleshow facilitating a discussion] on whether and how videos could be embedded in articles on English Wikipedia. Another interesting use case which came up during various discussions at Wikimania is the application of these explainer videos for internal communication within the Wikiverse, to support for example the the Wikimedia Foundation in communication complex topics (e.g. grant making related issues) to their stakeholders in a more easily understandable, fun way.</br>
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Another focus of ours is the diversity of content - especially of supplementation of
existing
text and pictures with video- and/or audiofiles. We believe that this is cruical to keep Wikipedia attractive for audiences who are used to
consume
information via multimedia channels. We see huge potential in this regard in our cooperation with the simpleshow foundation: Videos have become a popular format for the dissemination of information - especially short animated explainer videos which provide a quick overview over complex topics. The same principle applies to Wikipedia - videos can enrich
existing
content and provide an entertaining and easily comprehensible access to free knowledge. Together with experts from the simpleshow foundation Wikimedia Österreich offers workshops for Wikimedians which are designed to learn the tricks of the trade of screenwriting for explainer videos. [https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Explainer_Video_Workshop This year's workshop at Wikimania] took our collaboration to the next level, as we developed a new freeware, which enables volunteers to produce the videos themselves, which also resulted in three videos being completed by the end of the workshop and a lot of enthusiasm on the side of the participants. The cooperation started as an incubator project last year and while we first thought of it mainly in terms of expanding the
existing
community with newbie film makers, we now see that the main potential lies in the
existing
community using this as an
additional
medium to enrich
existing
formats of knowledge transfer. The mysimpleshow-freeware makes it possible to convert
existing
material into short videos without any previous knowledge or technical skill regarding filmmaking. While the educational value for Commons has more or less become a consensus, the use of videos in the Wikipedias is still a challenge and requires more extensive discussions with the
communities
. The cooperation with simpleshow has been embraced by the WikiProject Medicine as useful for their purposes and they currently help us [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Simpleshow facilitating a discussion] on whether and how videos could be embedded in articles on English Wikipedia. Another interesting use case which came up during various discussions at Wikimania is the application of these explainer videos for internal communication within the Wikiverse, to support for example the the Wikimedia Foundation in communication complex topics (e.g. grant making related issues) to their stakeholders in a more easily understandable, fun way.</br>
[[File:De-at Wikipedia.ogg|thumb|Wikipedia [ˌvikiˈpeːdiːaː] in Austrian German. Female voice. Speaker from Vienna, Austria.]]
[[File:De-at Wikipedia.ogg|thumb|Wikipedia [ˌvikiˈpeːdiːaː] in Austrian German. Female voice. Speaker from Vienna, Austria.]]
A new project in this regard is our spoken language diversity project. The spoken language as a medium of identity and diversity is of high importance to many Austrian volunteers, who have little representation of "their" language in the German-language Wikipedia, which only allows standard German. So, having supplementary audio snippets showcasing the diversity of the spoken language is a way of establishing a representation of local dialects in Wikimedia projects without contesting the rules of the projects. This spoken language diversity project aimed at the production of audio files of authentic pronunciations of names, e.g. of geographical entities and people. Authenticity in this context meant that the speakers were selected because of their place of residence, gender and social background. The focus on names (instead of verbs, adjectives etc.) also allowed a wide use and usability of the audio files in different Wikipedia language versions and not only in Wiktionary or Wikidata. 260 audio files were uploaded. They are being used in roughly 800 main namespace pages of 23 different Wikimedia projects.
A new project in this regard is our spoken language diversity project. The spoken language as a medium of identity and diversity is of high importance to many Austrian volunteers, who have little representation of "their" language in the German-language Wikipedia, which only allows standard German. So, having supplementary audio snippets showcasing the diversity of the spoken language is a way of establishing a representation of local dialects in Wikimedia projects without contesting the rules of the projects. This spoken language diversity project aimed at the production of audio files of authentic pronunciations of names, e.g. of geographical entities and people. Authenticity in this context meant that the speakers were selected because of their place of residence, gender and social background. The focus on names (instead of verbs, adjectives etc.) also allowed a wide use and usability of the audio files in different Wikipedia language versions and not only in Wiktionary or Wikidata. 260 audio files were uploaded. They are being used in roughly 800 main namespace pages of 23 different Wikimedia projects.
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'''What are our biggest challenges?'''
'''What are our biggest challenges?'''
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Establishing cooperations with the big cultural heritage institutions in Austria is one of our biggest challenges. There is a lot of potential for content donations in Austria, but even in the context of projects such as [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Europeana_Art_History_Challenge Europeana 280], with a clear framework for cooperation, common goals, international preparation and support and contacts to those GLAMs it seems almost impossible to make progress in this regard. We got in touch with all the institutions which nominated artwork for the Europeana 280 project in Austria, hoping that this would open some doors for us, suggesting various ways of cooperation from edit-a-thons, to expert dialogues or access to literature and received only negative answers or no answer at all. A situation which not exactly motivates volunteers to get involved in a project. Even with support from the project manager Liam via Europeana or Barbara Fischer from WMDE we couldn't get a single institution to respond. There are various reasons for this situation: Some of the bigger, prestigious institutions (e.g. National Library, Art History Museum) have contracts with Google for their
digitalization
projects. A lot of the smaller institutions on the other hand are lacking the
resouces
and/or know-how to assess the legal and organizational implications, chances and risks of such cooperations and tend to say no, because it seems easier and safer. The future of GLAM and possible ways to adress these challenges is also a focus area in our current strategy process.
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Establishing cooperations with the big cultural heritage institutions in Austria is one of our biggest challenges. There is a lot of potential for content donations in Austria, but even in the context of projects such as [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Europeana_Art_History_Challenge Europeana 280], with a clear framework for cooperation, common goals, international preparation and support and contacts to those GLAMs it seems almost impossible to make progress in this regard. We got in touch with all the institutions which nominated artwork for the Europeana 280 project in Austria, hoping that this would open some doors for us, suggesting various ways of cooperation from edit-a-thons, to expert dialogues or access to literature and received only negative answers or no answer at all. A situation which not exactly motivates volunteers to get involved in a project. Even with support from the project manager Liam via Europeana or Barbara Fischer from WMDE we couldn't get a single institution to respond. There are various reasons for this situation: Some of the bigger, prestigious institutions (e.g. National Library, Art History Museum) have contracts with Google for their
digitization
projects. A lot of the smaller institutions on the other hand are lacking the
resources
and/or know-how to assess the legal and organizational implications, chances and risks of such cooperations and tend to say no, because it seems easier and safer. The future of GLAM and possible ways to adress these challenges is also a focus area in our current strategy process.
'''What's up next?'''
'''What's up next?'''
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In July we finally have a Wiki Loves Parliament project in Austria again, as a cooperation between Austrian and German volunteers in the established fashion. Similar to the Austrian film project, it is a very targeted project, which aims to increase the quality of information about local politicians on Wikipedia for the readers. Together with the other DACH chapters we are also currently assessing a cooperation with an external partner for more freely licensed video material for Wikimedia projects.
In July we finally have a Wiki Loves Parliament project in Austria again, as a cooperation between Austrian and German volunteers in the established fashion. Similar to the Austrian film project, it is a very targeted project, which aims to increase the quality of information about local politicians on Wikipedia for the readers. Together with the other DACH chapters we are also currently assessing a cooperation with an external partner for more freely licensed video material for Wikimedia projects.
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Although we finished Wiki Loves Monuments in Austria, we want to keep up our cooperation with the Federal Monuments Office around Austria's cultural heritage. Hence, we plan a leaner, more targeted
approch
around the National Monuments Day in September, focusing on the cultural heritage which will be featured in the context of this event (historical roads).
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Although we finished Wiki Loves Monuments in Austria, we want to keep up our cooperation with the Federal Monuments Office around Austria's cultural heritage. Hence, we plan a leaner, more targeted
approach
around the National Monuments Day in September, focusing on the cultural heritage which will be featured in the context of this event (historical roads).
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