Visual Analytics for Sustainability and Climate Change/Mutirão
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Proposal for the Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change launches Call to Action (Mutirão). https://www.gov.br/secom/pt-br/mutirao-pela-integridade-da-informacao.
Deadline: 31 August 2025, submitted by Iolanda Pensa with the online form on 14 August 2025.
Title: Visual Analytics for Sustainability and Climate Change: Assessing online open content on Wikipedia and supporting community engagement
[edit]Main Line of Action: Sharing practical tools, methods and materials to strengthen resilience against disinformation and promote information integrity on climate change
Action Summary:
[edit]“Visual Analytics for Sustainability and Climate Change: Assessing online open content on Wikipedia and supporting community engagement” is a tool and an applied research project aimed at identifying and visualising knowledge gaps related to sustainability and climate change on Wikipedia. The project helps measure these knowledge gaps, supports communities in improving content on this important topic, facilitates collaboration among multilingual communities and partners, and strengthens the capacity of Wikipedia contributors to document and share information on sustainability and climate change.
In practice, in collaboration with Wikimedia projects focused on sustainability and climate change, the initiative produces a visual tool that allows users to evaluate and monitor the quality and quantity of articles related to sustainability and climate change on Wikipedia across different languages.
The tool developed can be further applied to any topic and set of Wikipedia articles, starting from Wikidata. A prototype designed for articles related to the Italian and Uruguayan school system is already accessible on https://itwiki-scuola-italiana.toolforge.org/?lang=en and https://wikicurricula.wikimedistas.uy/
The project (2025-2029) is led by the Institute of Design at SUPSI, in collaboration with Wiki Education Foundation, Wikimedistas de Uruguay, Wiki in Africa and Open Climate Campaign, with the endorsement of Wikimedia Italia and supported by the SNSF (10.003.183). Research team: Iolanda Pensa (concept and principal investigator), Giovanni Profeta (coordinator and designer), Chiara Somajni, Florence Devouard, Sage Ross, Nicole Schwitter, Cristian Scapozza and Florian Maximilian Meier.