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This is our nineteenth newsletter, covering June 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 5, 8, 10, 13, 15, 16 and 17.

Meetings

  • Online user group meeting July 4 (SDG all) [1]
  • Online user group meeting July 18 (SDG all) [1]

Activities

  • Ongoing: Wiki Loves Earth (SDG 15) [2]
  • Ongoing: Join the "Wiki editatón por el conocimiento climático" organized by Alianza Clima y Desarrollo y la Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano [13]
  • Past: A Wealth of Wiki Women (SDG 5) [5]
  • Past: Czech WikiGap 2021 report (SDG 5) [6]
  • Past: 50Y Swiss Women's Suffrage: Edit-a-thon at Historical Museum Lucerne & WikiGap (SDG 5) [7]
  • Past: The Met, Smithsonian, and a busy Edit-a-thon season (SDG 3, 5, 13) [8]
  • Past: Wiki for Human Rights Campaign in the Philippines (SDG 10, 13) [9]

News

  • 100 Years of Environment and Climate Change Canada Weather Data in Commons (SDG 13) [3]
  • #WikiForHumanRights 2021: Insights from the Macedonian Wikipedia (SDG 3, 10, 15) [4]
  • Malpractice Podcast Ep #2.9: Coffee Talks with Wikimedian Lane Rasberry (SDG 3) [10]
  • Brazil’s Laws: Modeling the Brazilian legislation in Wikidata (SDG 16) [14]

Resources

  • Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) has now translated and published its guide "How to contribute climate change information to Wikipedia" in Spanish. Check out the resource: "¿Cómo contribuir información sobre cambio climático a la Wikipedia?" (SDG 13) [12]

Research

  • Ms. Categorized: Gender, notability, and inequality on Wikipedia (SDG 5) [11]
  • Wikidata Projects in Times of COVID-19: IUPUI Libraries’ Engagement in Open Knowledge (SDG 3) [15]

Videos

  • Global Open Initiative Foundation editing session - Adding statements about Ghanaian Members of Parliament using OpenRefine (SDG 16) [22]

New Wikidata properties

  • OpenCorporates register jurisdiction (SDG 8) [16]
  • electronic Essential Medicines List medicine ID (SDG 3) [17]
  • Romanian diplomatic mission ID (SDG 17) [18]
  • Foreign diplomatic mission in Romania ID (SDG 17) [19]
  • Dutch Caribbean Species Register ID (SDG 15) [20]
  • Burke Herbarium Image Collection ID (SDG 15) [21]
  • consequence of text (SDG 16) [23]
  • Companies Registration Office (Ireland) Registration Number (SDG 8) [24]

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