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]

Links

• [1] https://grist.org/justice/wikipedia-is-flooded-with-information-but-it-has-a-blind-spot/
• [2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.08810.pdf
• [3] https://w.wiki/J8S
• [4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7948
• [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development
• [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/COVID-19_Notice
• [7] http://sdg.iisd.org/news/un-statistical-commission-adopts-36-changes-to-sdg-indicators/
• [8] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiProject_remote_event_participation
• [9] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_COVID-19
• [10] https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7:%D9%85%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B9_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A_%D8%B7%D8%A8/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%82_%D8%B9%D9%85%D9%84_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF-19
• [11] https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:WikiProjekt_SARS-CoV-2
• [12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_COVID-19
• [13] https://w.wiki/JnC
• [14] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7971
• [15] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8010
• [16] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8011
• [17] https://w.wiki/KqP
• [18] https://w.wiki/KzH
• [19] https://w.wiki/KtX
• [20] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/COVID-19

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