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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development/Newsletter/2020-05

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This is our sixth newsletter, covering May 2020. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 4, 5, 15 and 16..

Meetings

  • Next meeting for Wikimedians for Sustainable Development is Sunday, 7 June 18.00-19.00 UTC (SDG-all) [17]

News

  • Wikimedia and COVID-19: April overview (SDG 3) [1]
  • Extract Knowledge from Wikidata to Wikipedia articles related to Coronavirus (SDG 3) [8]
  • How Wikipedia became a trusted source for COVID-19 information (SDG 3) [15]
  • Future Historians Will Rely on Wikipedia’s COVID-19 Coverage (SDG 3) [16]
  • Students document workplace health risks on Wikipedia amidst global pandemic (SDG 3) [18]

New Wikidata properties

  • COVIDWHO ID (SDG 3) [2]
  • DGHS facility code (SDG 3) [3]
  • DPVweb ID (SDG 15) [4]
  • RPPS ID (SDG 3) [5]
  • hardiness of plant (SDG 15) [9]
  • hardiness zone (SDG 15) [10]
  • voting system (SDG 16) [11]
  • DPE school code (SDG 4) [12]

New Wikidata query examples

  • Map of countries receiving the Nobel peace prize (SDG 16) [6]
  • Map of geolocated Argentine libraries (SDG 4) [7]
  • Map of hospitals (blue) and health centers (green) of Argentina (SDG 3) [13]
  • Map of National parks in Sweden (SDG 15) [14]
  • Universities ranked by PageRank on English Wikipedia (SDG 4) [19]

New Wiki projects

  • Wikidata:WikiProject Schools (SDG 4) [20]
  • Swedish Wikipedia: Projekt HBTQI (SDG 5) [21]

Links

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