Wikimedians for Sustainable Development/Newsletter/2020-07

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This is our eighth newsletter, covering July 2020. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 5, 7, 10, 11, 15 and 16.

Meetings

• Upcoming: Wikimedians for Sustainable Development online meeting August 2 (SDG all) [19]
• Upcoming: Wikimedians for Sustainable Development online meeting August 16 (SDG all) [20]
• Past: Wikimedians for Sustainable Development online meeting July 5 (SDG all) [18]

News

• Another Wikipedian is cultivated (SDG 3) [1]
• Wikijournal of Medicine to be indexed in SCOPUS (SDG 3) [2]
• How Wikipedia Became a Battleground for Racial Justice (SDG 10) [3]
• Sask. doctor keeps COVID-19 Wikipedia info accurate with encyclopedic dedication (SDG 3) [4]
• We stand for racial justice (SDG 10) [10]
• Edit Loud, Edit Proud: LGBTIQ+ Wikimedians and Global Information Activism (SDG 10) [15]
• WikiProject Black Lives Matter (SDG 10) [16]
• The Power of Knowledge: A Look at the AfroCROWD Juneteenth Conference on Civil Rights (SDG 10) [24]
• #WikiHerStory: a month-long initiative to amplify gender equity work on Wikimedia projects (SDG 5) [25]
• How the internet will change our coronavirus memories (SDG 3) [26]
• How volunteers created Wikipedia’s world-beating Covid-19 coverage (SDG 3) [30]
• COVIWD - A Covid-19 Wikidata dashboard (SDG 3) [31]

Research

• COVID-19 research in Wikipedia (SDG 3) [11]
• A Quantitative Portrait of Wikipedia's High-Tempo Collaborations during the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic (SDG 3) [12]
• COVID-19 mobility restrictions increased interest in health and entertainment topics on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [13]
• A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata, a case report (SDG 3) [14]

Videos

• Wikimedia Research: Medical knowledge on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [23]
• More black stories need to be told -- and more black contributors need to tell them! (SDG 10) [29]

New WikiProjects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Black Lives Matter (SDG 10) [17]

Featured content

• Alpine newt (SDG 15) [5]
• Dementia with Lewy bodies (SDG 3) [6]
• Secretarybird (SDG 15) [7]
• List of procyonids (SDG 15) [8]
• List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Berkshire (SDG 15) [8]

New Wikidata properties

• thefreedictionary medical term ID (SDG 3) [21]
• Naturvårdsverket Anordningar OBJECTID (SDG 15) [22]
• public transport stop (SDG 11) [27]
• energy consumption per transaction (SDG 7) [28]
• BTI Governance Index (SDG 16) [32]
• BTI Status Index (SDG 16) [32]
• distribution map of taxon (SDG 15) [34]
• Queensland Biota ID (SDG 15) [35]
• Australian Weed ID (SDG 15) [36]

Links

• [1] https://wikiedu.org/blog/2020/07/01/another-wikipedian-is-cultivated/
• [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2020-06-28/News_and_notes
• [3] https://slate.com/technology/2020/06/wikipedia-george-floyd-neutrality.html
• [4] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sask-doctor-keeps-covid-19-wikipedia-info-accurate-with-encyclopedic-dedication-1.5619970
• [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_newt
• [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dementia_with_Lewy_bodies
• [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretarybird
• [8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_procyonids
• [9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sites_of_Special_Scientific_Interest_in_Berkshire
• [10] https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2020/06/03/we-stand-for-racial-justice/
• [11] https://doi.org/10.1101%2F2020.05.10.087643
• [12] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.08899.pdf
• [13] https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.08505
• [14] https://doi.org/10.1101%2F2020.04.05.026336
• [15] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2020-06-28/In_focus
• [16] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2020-06-28/WikiProject_report
• [17] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Black_Lives_Matter
• [18] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Meeting_minutes_20200705
• [19] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
• [20] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
• [21] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8401
• [22] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8409
• [23] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIV26lWrD9c
• [24] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/07/14/the-power-of-knowledge-a-look-at-the-afrocrowd-juneteenth-conference-on-civil-rights/
• [25] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/07/14/wikiherstory-a-month-long-initiative-to-amplify-gender-equity-work-on-wikimedia-projects/
• [26] https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/covid19-memory-history
• [27] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8453
• [28] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8461
• [29] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVCViux--xw
• [30] https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/16-07-2020/how-volunteers-created-wikipedias-world-beating-covid-19-coverage/
• [31] https://www.coviwd.org/
• [32] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8476
• [33] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8477
• [34] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8485
• [35] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8468
• [36] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8469

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