Wikimedians for Sustainable Development

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The Sustainable Development Goals were the theme of Wikimania 2019 but the engagement of Wikimedians goes back much further and continues in multiple ways that are continuously developing

About

This page helps bring together Wikimedians engaged in matters of sustainable development.

Idea

The Wikimedians interested in sustainable development are spread geographically, and will benefit from a stronger sense of community and support. A user group creates an established Wikimedia community, but it will still remain a lightweight non-organization. This way, ideas can more easily be matured in collaboration and brought forward in the Wikimedia movement.

Objectives

The group will work on all topics related to sustainable development, including in particular the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (also known as the Global Goals). The user group is a cross-project, cross-language and transnational group that welcomes and supports contributions to all Wikimedia projects. We aim to partner with organizations that are actively working towards a world with sustainable development whether they are NGO's, academic institutions, public bodies of different levels or even perhaps companies in order to create, collect and curate knowledge.

Activities

• December 2019 - Meetings with partners about sponsoring editathons.
• 15 December 2019 16:00 UTC - Coordination video call for anyone interested.
• 7 March - Editathon as part of Open Data Day 2020.
• Q2 of 2020 - Sustainability-themed WikiCite editathon.
• August 2020 - Sessions at Wikimania.
• September 2020 - Editathons during Global Goals week.
• Monthly newsletter - written by Wikimedia users regarding Sustainable Development initiatives happening in the community around the world.
• We are on "Social media" - Twitter account/Facebook page - to share news, resource, learning about Sustainable Development.
• Chat group - Telegram - To get connected with anyone interested about about Sustainable Development initiatives.

Participants

Please sign up below using a hash with 4 tildes (# ~~~~) if you are interested in participating:

1. -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 15:56, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
2. Ainali (talk) 16:14, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
3. Michaelgraaf (talk) 16:46, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
4. let us not en:Immanentize the eschaton with the en:climate apocalypse Blue Rasberry (talk) 19:12, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
5. /Haxpett (talk) 19:54, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
6. Jeb (talk) 20:48, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
7. --Taniamaio (talk) 08:44, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
8. --RemoRivelli (talk) 08:49, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
9. John Cummings (talk) 18:21, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
10. VIGNERON * ^discut. 18:29, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
11. Rajeeb (talk) 20:25, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
12. Ad Huikeshoven (talk) 06:50, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
13. --Alessandra Boccone (talk) 12:10, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
14. Shanluan (talk)
15. ~Moheen ^{(keep talking)} 16:40, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

See also

• Sustainability Initiative
• Climate change portal
• Wikimedians for Disaster Response
• WikiProject remote event participation
• @WikiSusDev on Twitter