Wikimedians for Sustainable Development/Newsletter/2020-02

This is our third newsletter, covering February 2020. This issue has news related to SDGs 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13, 14, 15 and 17.

Meetings

We had our third online coordination meeting, minutes are available. (SDG 17) [1]

Content

Wikimedia Australia works on bushfire related content. (SDG 13) [7]
Creative Commons have published a new book: "Creative Commons for Educators and Librarians". (SDG 4) [10]
The Sustainable Development Goals template that was used on the Wikimania wiki has been copied to meta [12] and also adapted to an inline version. [13] They should be easy to copy to other wikis as well. (SDG all)
There are now user boxes available on some projects. (SDG 17) [16]
The WHO Electronic Essential Medicines List (eEML) has been released under a Creative Commons Attribution license. (SDG 3) [20]

In the news

Highlighting

Wikimedia Sverige has started a section on their website dedicated to the Sustainable Development Goals. (SDG all) [14]

Upcoming events

2-6 March - Open Education Week. (SDG 4) [21]
6 March - We are giving a keynote at Open Belgium. (SDG 17) [2]
8 March - Several Wikigap events are being planned. (SDG 5) [3]
11 March - Climate Justice Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, New York City, USA (SDG 10 & 13) [19]
[CANCELLED] - Wikimedia Summit 2020 cancelled due to global health risks (SDG 3) [22]

New properties on Wikidata

New Wikidata query examples

Number of cases of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus reported per country (SDG 3) [4]
Map of medical facilities in Kalimpong district, India, color-coded by type (SDG 3) [5]
Books related to LGBTI+ topics (SDG 5) [6]
Timeline of same-sex marriage legalization in various countries (SDG 5) [8]
Chart of the number of infections and deaths caused since the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, as reported by the World Health Organisation (SDG 3) [9]

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