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Visual Analytics for Sustainability and Climate Change
Status: Launched in 2025
Visual Analytics for Sustainability and Climate Change: Assessing online open content and supporting community engagement. The case of Wikipedia (2025-2029) is a research project promoted by SUPSI, funded by the SNSF (grant number 10003183), with the patronage of Wikimedia Italia.
Visualizing Sustainability and Climate Change (VIZWP) is a project aimed at identifying and visualizing knowledge gaps related to sustainability and climate change on Wikipedia. The project helps visualize 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 climate change (as well as sustainability and SDGs).
In practice, in collaboration with Wikimedia projects focused on sustainability and climate change, the initiative will produce 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.
In the long run, the tool is expected to serve beyond the specific « Climate change » topic.
The projet is developped as part of a research project, promoted by SUPSI, funded by the SNSF (grant number 10003183), with the patronage of Wikimedia Italia. On the Wiki Community side of things, the organizations involved are Wikimedistas de Uruguay, Wiki in Africa, and Wiki Education Foundation. And its community manager is Anthere
The full research project will last 4 years. It launched in May 2025. The release of the first version and test phase is anticipated to take place early 2026. The second release would be mid 2026, and a final release in 2027, or 2028.
Test the updated visualization tool for articles related to sustainability and climate change.
AKI Africa Environment drive
Status: Closed
The Africa Environment WikiFocus encouraged Wikimedia and other communities to contribute content related to Africa’s Climate to the Wikimedia projects in March 2023 and beyond! The WikiFocus was a project created and developed by Wiki In Africa (WIA) and Wikimedia Community User Group Côte d’Ivoire (WMUG IC) as an integral part of the African Knowledge Initiative (AKI) series of campaigns. The Africa Environment WikiFocus was a content creation and contribution WikiFocus that launched on the African Union’s Wangari Maathai Day (3rd of March).
Main goals of the programme
The main focus of the initiative is to encourage Wikimedia and other communities to contribute content related to Africa’s Climate to the Wikimedia projects. Individuals, communities, and organizations were invited to contribute in a variety of different ways. The topics covered in this focus related to the climates of Africa, and the impact of climate change and environmental issues or threats faced by countries and communities across Africa.
The main elements were:
- বিষয়বস্তু তৈরি :
- Add to and improve existing articles that reflect your community, focus or passions. Understand the challenges through practical application
- Knowledge transfer :
- Find out about Wikipedia, Wikimedia projects and communities, Open licences and copyright, partnerships, etc.
- Skills acquisition :
- কীভাবে সম্পাদনা করতে হয়, তথ্যছক নিয়ে কাজ করতে হয়, তথ্য যোগ করতে হয়, ছবি আপলোড করতে হয়, অন্যদের শেখাতে হয়, কোথায় ভালো উৎস পাওয়া যায় ইত্যাদি শিখুন।
- Visibility and outreach :
- Launch and closing event. Strong social media campaigns etc.
Project Impact (end 2023)
Content
- The link of the Dashboard gives a general view of ALL (the numerous) contributions by participating communities related to Climate and Climate Change in Africa.
Community cohesion and outreach
- dozen of Online office hours
- One global launch event
- 1 global mid-term event
- 1 global closing ceremony
- Increased visibility through an active social media campaign
Training and skills building
- 3 Training sessions
- 1 webinar to assist increasing entrants’ understanding of the campaign
- 1 training webinar about Dashboard
- 1 training webinar about Wikidata
Local activation
- Local meetings (training, edit-a-thon, conference etc.) were organized by up to 17 groups
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Project Partners
The organising partners of the Africa Environment WikiFocus was conceptualised in its current form and has been implemented and managed by Wiki In Africa and Wikimedia Usergroup Côte d’Ivoire.
The Africa Environment WikiFocus was created in response to a community call for submissions to the Africa Knowledge Initiative (AKI) around a celebration of Wangari Maathai Day, an Africa Union designated day to draw attention to environmental matters across Africa.
The Africa Knowledge Initiative is managed by a working group of members from the Wikimedia Foundation, Africa Union and Africa No Filter.
The Drive was locally implemented by 17 groups through training sessions, edit-a-thons, in-field trips, presentations etc. by Local Organizing Partners.
Key links
- Africa Environment portal page on Meta-Wiki
- Results and best practices of the campaign
- The general campaign dashboard to track activities
- AKI Africa Environment 2023 category, the main category on Wikimedia Commons
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