Wikimedians for Sustainable Development/Newsletter/2023-02

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This is our twentyfourth newsletter, covering February 2023. This issue has news related to SDGs 2, 3, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15 and 16.

Meetings

• 2023-03-05 User group meeting (SDG all)
• Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting (SDG all)

Activities

• Ongoing: 365 climate edits (SDG 13)
• Ongoing: Suggest "Environmental sustainability and climate crisis" topics for Wikimania (SDG all)
• Ongoing: Africa Environment WikiFocus (SDG 13)
• Past: Edit for Climate Change: Wikipedia Editathon (SDG 13)
• Past: WikiForHumanRights 2023 Campaign: Capacity Building Sessions on "Tools for Finding the Right Articles" and "Building Article List with Petscan" (SDG 10 & 13)
• Past: WikiForHumanRights 2023 Campaign: Regional Office Hours for Africa and Maghreb Regions (SDG 10 & 13)

News

• NCBI breakdown of common garden foods with photographs by Phytotheca (SDG 2)

Resources

• 3000 Arctic images (SDG 13)
• SMART-Servier Medical Art upload (SDG 3)

Research

• Open Source in Environmental Sustainability (SDG 13)

New Wikidata properties

• Norwegian war prisoner detention camp ID (SDG 16)
• Iowa legislator ID (SDG 16)
• National Grid Balancing Mechanism unit ID (SDG 7)

Wikidata query examples

• Map of disasters by type (SDG 11)

Featured articles

• English Wikipedia: South Asian river dolphin (SDG 14)
• English Wikipedia: List of World Heritage Sites in Sri Lanka (SDG 11)
• English Wikipedia: List of lamiid families (SDG 15)

• Featured images
• 
  Three horses (SDG 15)
• 
  Hunter baby chameleon (SDG 15)
• 
  Rice paper butterfly (SDG 15)
• 
  Lasiocampa quercus 4th instar caterpillar Keila (top view) (SDG 15)
• 
  Lasiocampa quercus 4th instar caterpillar Keila (side view).jpg (SDG 15)
• 
  Mockingbird on the North Lake Trail (SDG 15)
• 
  Striated Pardalote (SDG 15)
• 
  Wiesenvögelchen (SDG 15)
• 
  Herring gull (SDG 15)
• 
  Northern shoveler (SDG 15)

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This is our twentyfourth newsletter, covering February 2023. This issue has news related to SDGs 2, 3, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15 and 16.

Meetings

• 2023-03-05 User group meeting (SDG all) [28]
• 2023-03-19 User group meeting (SDG all) [28]

Activities

• Ongoing: 365 climate edits (SDG 13) [1]
• Ongoing: Suggest "Environmental sustainability and climate crisis" topics for Wikimania (SDG all) [23]
• Ongoing: Africa Environment WikiFocus (SDG 13) [27]
• Past: Edit for Climate Change: Wikipedia Editathon (SDG 13) [22]
• Past: WikiForHumanRights 2023 Campaign: Capacity Building Sessions on Tools for Finding the Right Articles and Building Article List with Petscan (SDG 10 & 13) [26]
• Past: WikiForHumanRights 2023 Campaign Regional Office Hours for Africa and Maghreb Regions [25]

News

• NCBI breakdown of common garden foods with photographs by Phytotheca (SDG 2) [3]

Resources

• 3000 Arctic images (SDG 13) [14]
• SMART-Servier Medical Art upload (SDG 3) [15]

Research

• Open Source in Environmental Sustainability (SDG 13) [2]

Featured content

• English Wikipedia: South Asian river dolphin (SDG 14) [7]
• Commons: Three horses (SDG 15) [8]
• Commons: Hunter baby chameleon (SDG 15) [9]
• Commons: Rice paper butterfly (SDG 15) [10]
• Commons: Lasiocampa quercus 4th instar caterpillar Keila (top view) (SDG 15) [11]
• Commons: Lasiocampa quercus 4th instar caterpillar Keila (side view).jpg (SDG 15) [12]
• Commons: Mockingbird on the North Lake Trail (SDG 15) [13]
• English Wikipedia: List of World Heritage Sites in Sri Lanka (SDG 11) [16]
• English Wikipedia: List of lamiid families (SDG 15) [17]
• Commons: Striated Pardalote (SDG 15) [18]
• Commons: Wiesenvögelchen (SDG 15) [19]
• Commons: Herring gull (SDG 15) [20]
• Commons: Northern shoveler (SDG 15) [21]

New Wikidata properties

• Norwegian war prisoner detention camp ID (SDG 16) [5]
• Iowa legislator ID (SDG 16) [6]
• National Grid Balancing Mechanism unit ID (SDG 7) [24]

Wikidata query examples

• Map of disasters by type (SDG 11) [4]

Links

• [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/365_climate_edits
• [2] https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/sustainability/
• [3] https://observablehq.com/@thadk/garden
• [4] https://w.wiki/5Vu8
• [5] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11576
• [6] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11587
• [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asian_river_dolphin
• [8] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%A2%D1%80%D0%B8_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%96.jpg
• [9] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hunter_baby_chameleon.jpg
• [10] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rice_paper_butterfly_%2816709%29.jpg
• [11] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lasiocampa_quercus_4th_instar_caterpillar_Keila_%28top_view%29.jpg
• [12] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lasiocampa_quercus_4th_instar_caterpillar_Keila_%28side_view%29.jpg
• [13] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mockingbird_on_the_North_Lake_Trail_%2836851%29.jpg
• [14] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/January_2023/Contents/Sweden_report
• [15] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/January_2023/Contents/Content_Partnerships_Hub_report
• [16] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Sri_Lanka
• [17] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lamiid_families
• [18] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Striated_Pardalote_0012.jpg
• [19] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kleines_Wiesenv%C3%B6gelchen_am_Morgen.jpg
• [20] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Immature_herring_gull_%2816259%29.jpg
• [21] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Northern_shoveler_male_in_Marine_Park_%2833296%29.jpg
• [22] https://www.eventbrite.com/x/edit-for-climate-change-wikipedia-editathon-registration-526291811977
• [23] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Program/Submissions
• [24] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11610
• [25] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Resources
• [26] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize
• [27] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Environment
• [28] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting

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