Wikimedians for Sustainable Development/Newsletter/2020-08

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This is our ninth newsletter, covering August 2020. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 4, 6, 11, 13, 14, 15 and 17.

Meetings

• Upcoming: Online meeting - 2020-09-06 (SDG all) [1]
• Upcoming: Online meeting - 2020-09-20 (SDG all) [1]
• Past: Online meeting - 2020-08-02 (SDG all) [2]

Activities

• Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' celebrated its first published translation: 'Réchauffement climatique en Afrique', a French translation of the English Wikipedia article 'Climate change in Africa' by User:J. N. Squire in French (SDGs 4, 13) [20]
• Past: World Water Week ISA campaign (SDG 6) [21]
• Past: Editathon about Covid-19 in Swedish (SDG 3) [22]
• Past: Editathon about water in Swedish (SDG 6) [23]

News

• Covid-19 is one of Wikipedia’s biggest challenges ever. Here’s how the site is handling it. (SDG 3) [12]
• Adding biographies of female oceanographers (SDG 14) [13]
• Wiki Education participants improve COVID-19 local response articles (SDG 3) [14]
• Wikimedia Policy Brief - COVID-19 - How Wikipedia helps us through uncertain times (SDG 3) [15]
• Personal perspective on the forming of the user group (SDG all) [19]

Research

• Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [3]
• Wikidata-focused presentations at the Workshop "Data Science in Climate and Climate Impact Research" taking place on 20-21 August 2020 in Zurich and online. (SDGs 4, 13, 17) [16] [17]

Videos

• Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Data Perspective (SDGs 4, 13, 17) [18]
• Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing about water #17 (SDG 6) [24], [25]

Featured content

• Vermilion flycatcher (SDG 15) [4]
• Canada lynx (SDG 15) [5]
• Meteorological history of Hurricane Dorian (SDG 11) [6]
• Leeches (SDG 15) [7]
• Gigantorhynchus (SDG 15) [8]
• List of World Heritage Sites in Iceland (SDG 11) [9]
• Ursidae (SDG 15) [10]
• Mephitidae (SDG 15) [11]
• Orangutan (SDG 15) [32]
• Horseshoe bat (SDG 15) [33]
• Hurricane Willa (SDG 11) [34]
• List of World Heritage Sites in Lithuania (SDG 11) [35]

New Wikidata properties

• extinction date (SDG 15) [26]
• Monumentbrowser ID (SDG 11) [27]
• Nasjonalt skoleregister ID (SDG 4) [28]
• American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus ID (SDG 11) [29]
• Sculptures and cities database ID for sculptures (SDG 11) [31]

New Wikidata query examples

• Bar chart showing the number of research output (articles, etc) annotated with a SARSCoV2 proteins as 'main subject' (SDG 3) [30]

Links

• [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
• [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Meeting_minutes_20200802
• [3] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12109-020-09750-0
• [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermilion_flycatcher
• [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_lynx
• [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorological_history_of_Hurricane_Dorian
• [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leech
• [8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantorhynchus
• [9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Iceland
• [10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursidae
• [11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mephitidae
• [12] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/08/07/wikipedia-covid-coronavirus
• [13] https://wikiedu.org/blog/2020/08/06/adding-biographies-of-female-oceanographers/
• [14] https://wikiedu.org/blog/2020/08/04/wiki-education-participants-improve-covid-19-local-response-articles/
• [15] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Policy_Brief_-_COVID-19_-_How_Wikipedia_helps_us_through_uncertain_times.pdf
• [16] Sarasua, Cristina, & Mietchen, Daniel. (2020, August). Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Community Perspective. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3994272
• [17] Mietchen, Daniel, & Sarasua, Cristina. (2020, August). Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Data Perspective. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3994266
• [18] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntI6hmT-rRc
• [19] https://wikimedia.se/2020/08/19/wikimedians-for-sustainable-development/
• [20] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Climate_translation_project
• [21] https://isa.toolforge.org/campaigns/77
• [22] https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wik-e-meet/6_augusti_2020
• [23] https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wik-e-meet_27_augusti
• [24] https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2744955582456268/
• [25] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDxz652CgwY
• [26] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8556
• [27] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8543
• [28] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8545
• [29] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8540
• [30] https://w.wiki/a5X
• [31] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8521
• [32] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangutan
• [33] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_bat
• [34] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Willa
• [35] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Lithuania

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