Wikimedians for Sustainable Development/Newsletter/2020-10

This is our eleventh newsletter, covering October 2020. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 4, 8, 11, 13, 15 and 16 .

Meetings

• Online meeting November 1 (SDG all) [1]
• Online meeting November 15 (SDG all) [1]
• Past: Prioritization event survey (SDG all) [26]

Activities

• Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]
• Upcoming: Online edit-a-thon on climate change (SDG 13) [29]
• Upcoming: Enriching parliamentary documents metadata editathon (in Swedish) (SDG 16) [27]
• Past: Wiki for UN writing campaign (SDG 17) [28]

News

• Wikipedia and Sustainable Development Goals: Engaging smaller Wikipedias (SDG all) [3]
• The World Health Organization and Wikimedia Foundation expand access to trusted information about COVID-19 on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [10]
• Improving reproductive health articles on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [11]
• Wiki Loves SDGs: A community of Global Goals factivists (SDG all) [12]
• Analyze Swedish politics with Wikidata (SDG 16) [17]

Resources

• GUIDE: How to contribute climate change information to Wikipedia (SDG 13) [25]

Videos

• 2020-09-29 Houcemeddine Turki, U of Sfax: Wikidata & COVID-19, a collaborative KG from CORD-19 (SDG 3) [4]
• WikiCite 2020: OpenVirus and Scholia interfaces (SDG 3) [13]
• WikiCite 2020: Citations in Swedish Parliamentary documents (SDG 16) [18]
• WikiCite 2020: Gene Wiki (SDG 3) [19]

New Wikidata properties

• Symptom Ontology ID (SDG 3) [6]
• SSYK 2012 The Swedish Standard Classification of Occupations (SDG 8) [7]
• Native Plants Database ID (SDG 15) [8]
• NBIC taxon ID (SDG 15) [14]
• Danish educational institution number (SDG 4) [15]
• economy of topic (SDG 8) [20]
• American Heritage place ID (SDG 11) [21]
• DC Historic Sites place ID (SDG 11) [22]

New Wikidata query examples

• Map of trees whose species is categorized as threatened on the IUCN Red List (SDG 15) [5]
• Map of outdoor warning sirens, color-coded by manufacturer (SDG 11) [9]
• Scientific papers explaining backward contact tracing (SDG 3) [16]
• Invasive species in EU and whether they have articles in different languages (SDG 15) [23]
• COVID-19 deaths by month (SDG 3) [24]

Links

• [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
• [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Climate_translation_project
• [3] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/10/08/wikipedia-and-sustainable-development-goals-engaging-smaller-wikipedias/
• [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwudGFtT4A4
• [5] https://tinyurl.com/y3wna59m
• [6] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8656
• [7] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8654
• [8] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8660
• [9] https://tinyurl.com/y6k3ocbs
• [10] https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2020/10/22/world-health-organization-and-wikimedia-foundation-expand-access/
• [11] https://wikiedu.org/blog/2020/10/22/improving-reproductive-health-articles-on-wikipedia/
• [12] https://www.globalgoals.org/news/wiki-loves-sdgs
• [13] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kQnT5Yra1U
• [14] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8707
• [15] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8708
• [16] https://w.wiki/fAy
• [17] https://wikimedia.se/2020/10/26/analyze-swedish-politics-with-wikidata/
• [18] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMtP64yFKn0
• [19] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsJScOYVLVc
• [20] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8744
• [21] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8723
• [22] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8747
• [23] https://w.wiki/hbs
• [24] https://w.wiki/iqE
• [25] https://cdkn.org/resource/guide-how-to-contribute-climate-change-information-to-wikipedia/
• [26] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Prioritization_event_survey
• [27] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Sweden/Swedish_Riksdag_documents/Kopplingssprint
• [28] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_for_UN
• [29] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Online_edit-a-thon_on_climate_change_-_November_2020

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