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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development/Newsletter/2020-03

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This is our fourth newsletter, covering March 2020. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 11 and 17.

Becoming a User Group

  • Wikimedians for Sustainable Development are recognized as a Wikimedia user Group [5]

In the news

  • Wikipedia is flooded with information — but it has a blind spot (SDG 11) [1]

New WikiProjects

  • Wikidata:WikiProject COVID-19 (SDG 3) [9]
  • (Arabic) ويكيبيديا:مشروع ويكي طب/فريق عمل كوفيد-19 (SDG 3) [10]
  • (Czech) Wikipedie:WikiProjekt SARS-CoV-2 (SDG 3) [11]
  • (English) Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19 (SDG 3) [12]

Academic studies

  • Uneven Coverage of Natural Disasters in Wikipedia: the Case of Floods (SDG 11) [2]

Events

  • The COVID-19 pandemic halts all in-person events funded through the Wikimedia Foundation (SDG 3) [6]
    • Which lead to a renewed interest in remote events (SDG 17) [8]

Information from the Wikimedia Foundation

  • COVID-19 (SDG 3) [20]

The Sustainable Development Goals

  • The United Nations adopt changes to the Sustainable Development Goal Indicators (SDG-all) [7]

New Wikidata properties

  • GreatSchools ID (SDG 4) [4]
  • food energy (SDG 1) [14]
  • number of recoveries (SDG 3) [15]
  • number of clinical tests (SDG 3) [16]

New Wikidata example queries

  • Updated chart of the number of infections and deaths caused since the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, as reported by the World Health Organisation (SDG 3) [3]
  • World map of hospitals (SDG 3) [13]
  • Notable people with COVID-19 by number of sitelinks (SDG 3) [17]
  • COVID-19 case statistics for India (SDG 3):
    • State-level map [18]
    • State-level line graph [19]

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