Wikimedians for Sustainable Development/Newsletter/2020-05

This is our sixth newsletter, covering May 2020. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 4, 5, 15 and 16..

Meetings

• Next meeting for Wikimedians for Sustainable Development is Sunday, 7 June 18.00-19.00 UTC (SDG-all) [17]

News

• Wikimedia and COVID-19: April overview (SDG 3) [1]
• Extract Knowledge from Wikidata to Wikipedia articles related to Coronavirus (SDG 3) [8]
• How Wikipedia became a trusted source for COVID-19 information (SDG 3) [15]
• Future Historians Will Rely on Wikipedia’s COVID-19 Coverage (SDG 3) [16]
• Students document workplace health risks on Wikipedia amidst global pandemic (SDG 3) [18]

New Wikidata properties

• COVIDWHO ID (SDG 3) [2]
• DGHS facility code (SDG 3) [3]
• DPVweb ID (SDG 15) [4]
• RPPS ID (SDG 3) [5]
• hardiness of plant (SDG 15) [9]
• hardiness zone (SDG 15) [10]
• voting system (SDG 16) [11]
• DPE school code (SDG 4) [12]

New Wikidata query examples

• Map of countries receiving the Nobel peace prize (SDG 16) [6]
• Map of geolocated Argentine libraries (SDG 4) [7]
• Map of hospitals (blue) and health centers (green) of Argentina (SDG 3) [13]
• Map of National parks in Sweden (SDG 15) [14]
• Universities ranked by PageRank on English Wikipedia (SDG 4) [19]

New Wiki projects

• Wikidata:WikiProject Schools (SDG 4) [20]
• Swedish Wikipedia: Projekt HBTQI (SDG 5) [21]

Links

• [1] https://wikimedia.se/2020/05/04/wikimedia-and-covid-19-april-overview/
• [2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8150
• [3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8162
• [4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8164
• [5] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8170
• [6] https://w.wiki/Pra
• [7] https://w.wiki/PCY
• [8] https://medium.com/@jinoytommanjaly/extract-knowledge-from-wikidata-to-wikipedia-articles-of-coronavirus-e5cfd46c93cb
• [9] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8193
• [10] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8194
• [11] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8196
• [12] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8186
• [13] https://w.wiki/QP6
• [14] https://w.wiki/R6v
• [15] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42n6igyp-Fk
• [16] https://slate.com/technology/2020/05/wikipedia-coronavirus-information-future-historians.html
• [17] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
• [18] https://wikiedu.org/blog/2020/05/28/students-document-workplace-health-risks-on-wikipedia-amidst-global-pandemic/
• [19] https://w.wiki/RAp
• [20] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Schools
• [21] https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Projekt_HBTQI

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