International Museum Day Wikidata Competition 2021edit
Basics
in a nutshell: WMAT's main contribution to the International Museum Day 2020 project, a community contest on Wikidata around items about museums in Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland.
what we contributed to this activity: concept, technical solutions, organization, prizes
in a nutshell: Wikimedia Österreich supported the LTGB+ User Group as a fiscal sponsor during their first ever event. Originally planned as an in-person event in Linz, Upper Austria, in 2020 it became an online event focussed on UG governance in the wake of the pandemic. The Queering Wikipedia Working Days took place over three half-days with participants from 5 continents and produced tangible results regarding governance and structure and a possible follow-up event in 2022.
in a nutshell: This strategy meeting was used to prepare the general assembly: annual closure and audits, bylaw changes to increase transparency regarding the internal auditors financial relations to the chapter and to allow hybrid voting on- and offline in future). We also finalized the new strategy for 2025.
what we contributed to this activity: Organisation, technical platform.
in a nutshell: interview series on the occasion of WP20, featuring 13 Wikipedians on WMAT's website, published one by one from December 2020 to May 2021
what we contributed to this activity: coordination, publishing
in a nutshell: workshop and editing session for the improvement of Wikidata items about museums in Burgenland, held as video conference (note: metrics about content pages included in #International Museum Day Wikidata Competition 2021)
what we contributed to this activity: organization, social hosting, technical
in a nutshell: online expert talk for Wikipedians in Austria, Germany and Switzerland about historical washing machines with the Vienna Museum of Science and Technology's curator of everyday life and deputy collection manager
what we contributed to this activity: organisation, hosting
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