Wikimedians for Sustainable Development/Newsletter/2021-05

This is our eighteenth newsletter, covering May 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 9, 13 and 15. This month we especially saw a lot of new identifiers for different species in Wikidata, making it easier to use Wikidata as a hub and look up and compare species in different databases.

Meetings

• Online user group meeting June 6 (SDG all) [1]
• Online user group meeting June 20 (SDG all) [1]
• Past: Online user group meeting May 16 (SDG all) [22]

Activities

• Ongoing: Wiki Loves Earth (SDG 15) [2]
• Past: Sharing lessons & results from the Spanish Wikiproject Climate change first edit-a-thon for Earth Day (SDG 13) [3]
• Past: Sustainable Development Goals: Edit-a-thon for the Festa da Wiki-Lusofonia (20 years of Portuguese Wikipedia cellebrations) (SDG all) [4]

News

• Over 3,000,000 usages of taxon name (P225) (SDG 15) [6]

New Wikidata properties

• degrees day (SDG 13) [5]
• Oregon Flora Image Project ID (SDG 15) [7]
• MyBIS species ID (SDG 15) [8]
• IUCN Green List ID (SDG 15 [9]
• OpenCorporates register ID (SDG 9) [10]
• MyBIS protected area ID (SDG 15) [11]
• Danish 2010 redlist identifier (SDG 15) [12]
• Microlepidoptera.nl ID (SDG 15) [13]
• North Carolina session law (SDG 16) [15]
• SOR bird ID (SDG 15) [16]
• ToateAnimalele ID (SDG 15) [17]
• Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa ID (SDG 15) [21]

New Wikidata query examples

• Number of species belonging to the different IUCN conservation categories (SDG 15) [14]
• Map of coronavirus research organizations active from before 2020 (SDG 3) [18]
• Scholarly articles about COVID-19 with "Wikipedia" in the title (SDG 3) [19]
• Nocturnal animals based on diel cycle (SDG 15) [20]

Links

• [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
• [2] http://wikilovesearth.org/
• [3] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/05/05/sharing-results-lessons-from-the-spanish-wikproject-climate-change-first-edit-a-thon-for-earth-day/
• [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Festa_da_Wiki-Lusofonia/Eventos/Sess%C3%A3o_principal/Maratona_de_edi%C3%A7%C3%A3o
• [5] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9496
• [6] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2021/05#Over_3,000,000_usages_of_taxon_name_(P225)
• [7] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9501
• [8] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9503
• [9] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9516
• [10] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9532
• [11] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9552
• [12] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9576
• [13] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9580
• [14] https://w.wiki/3Kuh
• [15] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9590
• [16] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9595
• [17] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9596
• [18] https://w.wiki/3MZJ
• [19] https://w.wiki/3NMQ
• [20] https://w.wiki/3NQN
• [21] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9608
• [22] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Meeting_minutes_20210516

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