Wikimedians for Sustainable Development/Reports/2020
This is the activity report for Wikimedians for Sustainable Development 2020.
The user group was recognized just as the pandemic began spreading across the world. It has, like for the rest of the world, had a severe effect on our planned activities. However, after a struggling start, we are ramping up our activities. As a group we are still finding our place and purpose. Our aim has been to be a hub of information and coordination for everyone doing activities related to sustainable development, regardless of whether it is done by affiliates or volunteers in the movement.
It's not easy to assess the state of sustainable development in the movement. It's still hard to get an overview of what is happening, but in general, we can see that many affiliates are trying out various activities related to sustainable development, but most don't have it in their strategy yet. In the movement strategy, there has been wide consensus both for aiming to reduce the impact from our activities (included in recommendation 1) and to focus on topics that have impact (in recommendation 8). What we need for 2021 is that affiliates show leadership in these with concrete plans and actions.
Internal User group meetings
[edit]2019
[edit]- 2019-12-15 (5 participants)
2020
[edit]- 2020-01-12 (7 participants)
- 2020-02-09 (10 participants)
- 2020-06-07 (5 participants)
- 2020-07-05 (5 participants)
- 2020-08-02 (6 participants)
- 2020-10-04 (4 participants)
- 2020-10-25 (7 participants)
- 2020-11-01 (3 participants)
- 2020-12-06 (4 participants)
Activities
[edit]2019
[edit]- 10 November 2019 - initiative started
- Voted on logo
2020
[edit]- February - Collected and gave feedback on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy.
- February 21 - panel and editing event at National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (Q3233780)
- March - WikiGap Challenge
- March 6 - Keynote talk at Open Belgium 2020.
- March 7 - Editathon as part of Open Data Day 2020.
- March 11 - Climate Justice Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, New York City, USA
- April 22 - NYC Waste & Environmental Justice Earth Day Edit-a-thon - (ONLINE) - hosted by Sure We Can
- June 26 - NYC 2020 Census Multilingual Edit-a-thon - (ONLINE) - hosted by recycling center Sure We Can
- July 17 - Wikipedia Weekly Network - Invasive species editing (in Dutch) Facebook, YouTube
- August 6 - Editathon about Covid-19 (in Swedish)
- August 23 - August 28 - World Water Week ISA campaign
- August 27 - Editathon about water (in Swedish)
- September 19-26 2020 - Multilingual Online Editathon on Sustainable Development Goals during Global Goals Week
- September 25 - Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata wikidojo: Global Climate Strike Facebook, Youtube
- November 24 to December 1: “Wiki4Climate” - A week-long online edit-a-thon on climate change topics
- December 11, Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing - climate change YouTube, Facebook
- December 1-31 - Multilingual Women in Climate Change editathon
Communications
[edit]Newsletters
[edit]2019 | 2020 |
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Social media
[edit]- Our Facebook page Wikimedians for Sustainable Development had 60 likes at 2020-12-31.
- In our Facebook group Wikimedians for Sustainable Development Collaboration Group at 2020-12-31 there was 207 members.
- Our Twitter account WikiSusDev had 326 followers at 2020-12-31.
Telegram
[edit]There were 95 members in our Telegram group at 2020-12-31.
Participants
[edit]At 2020-12-31 we had 112 participants in the user group.