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This is our twentieth newsletter, covering July 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 4, 5, 11, 14, 15 and 16.

Meetings

  • Online user group meeting August 1 (SDG all) [1]
  • Online user group meeting August 15 (SDG all) [1]
  • Past: Online user group meeting July 4 (SDG all) [7]

Wikimania

  • During Wikimania there are a number of sessions related to our user group. We have started a page in the community village to list all the talks, please help add them if you are giving talks or spot sessions in the program. (SDG all) [6]

Activities

  • Organize Wiki Loves Monuments in 2021 (SDG 11) [26]
  • Past: Vaccine Safety Edit-a-thon (SDG 3) [5]

News

  • Who Gets To Be Notable And Who Doesn't: Gender Bias On Wiki (SDG 5) [27]

Resources

  • Gender diversity in articles about academic disciplines in the French wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]

Research

  • Meta-Research: Citation needed? Wikipedia and the COVID-19 pandemic (SDG 3) [28]
  • Covid-on-the-Web: Knowledge Graph and Services to Advance COVID-19 Research book (SDG 3) [29]
  • Unveiling the veiled: Wikipedia collaborating with academic libraries in Africa in creating visibility for African women through Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon (SDG 5) [30]

Videos

  • Wikipedia Weekly Network - Live editing Wikipedia: Biodiversity edition #4 (SDG 15) [2],[3]
  • Editing Wikidata items about Ghanaian parliamentarians (SDG 16) [8]

New WikiProjects

  • Wikidata:Gov Directory (SDG 16) [4]

New Wikidata properties

  • voted on by (SDG 16) [9]
  • delta of (SDG 14) [10]
  • Idaho Species ID (SDG 15) [11]
  • Montana Field Guide species ID (SDG 15) [12]
  • E-Fauna BC species ID (SDG 15) [13]
  • E-Flora BC species ID (SDG 15) [14]
  • Buzer.de law identification (SDG 16) [15]
  • taxon range (SDG 15) [17]
  • URL for citizen's initiatives (SDG 16) [19]
  • number of request signatories (SDG 16) [20]
  • CEICE school code (SDG 4) [21]

New Wikidata query examples

  • Scientific and Commons names of animals which are threatened as per IUCN Red List (SDG 15) [16]
  • Comparing gender statistics about people cited in an article across several articles (SDG 5) [22]
  • Swedish Supreme Court judges who citing reports by commissions they themselves took part in (SDG 16) [23]
  • Map public organizations that allow one to fill citizen's initiatives online (SDG 16) [24]
  • Number of causes of death (P509) 2019-2021 separated by year so that a comparison of the causes of death before and during the pandemic can also be seen (SDG 3) [25]

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