Wikimedians for Sustainable Development/Newsletter/2020-11
This is our twelfth newsletter, covering November 2020. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16.
Meetings
- Online meeting December 6 (SDG all) [1]
- Online meeting December 20 (SDG all) [1]
Activities
- Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]
- Ongoing: December Women in Climate Change editathon (SDG 13) [24]
- Past: South South North hosted #Wiki4Climate (SDG 13) [25]
- Past: Enriching parliamentary documents metadata editathon (in Swedish) (SDG 16) [3]
News
- The guardians of Wikipedia's climate page (SDG 13) [6]
- Gender equality survey on Macedonian Wikipedia (SDG 5) [12]
- The future of the Riksdag's data in Wikidata (in Swedish, SDG 16) [21]
- #Wiki4climate newsletter on Spanish Wikipedia: 3 edits in 5 minutes, number one [26] & number two [27] (SDG 13)
- Women’s representation and voice in media coverage of the coronavirus crisis (SDG 3 and 5) [28]
Resources
- The election tracker (SDG 16) [13]
- ALEC (A List of Everything Cool) is a tool to explore biodiversity content in Wikidata (SDG 15) [17]
Research
- A general method for estimating the prevalence of Influenza-Like-Symptoms with Wikipedia data (SDG 3) [4]
Videos
- Thriving Online – How to Be a Climate Wikipedian (SDG 13) [5]
- Strategies for Assembling the Biodiversity Knowledge Graph (SDG 15) [29]
Featured content
- Одржлива енергија (English: Sustainable energy) (SDG 7) [7]
- Договор за неширење на нуклеарно оружје (English: Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons) (SDG 16) [8]
- Инвазивен вид (English: Invasive species) (SDG 15) [9]
- Отпад од храна (English: Food waste) (SDG 12) [10]
- Последици од глобалното затоплување (English: Effects of climate change) (SDG 13) [11]
- List of World Heritage Sites in Sweden (SDG 11) [36]
- List of medieval churches on Gotland (SDG 11) [37]
- List of World Heritage Sites in the Netherlands (SDG 11) [38]
- List of herpestids (SDG 15) [39]
- Australian Journal of Herpetology (SDG 15) [40]
New Wikidata properties
- annual average daily traffic (SDG 11 & 13) [14]
- birth rate (SDG 3) [16]
- dedicated heritage entity (SDG 11) [18]
- poverty incidence (SDG 1) [22]
- water area (SDG 14) [30]
- power consumption index (SDG 7) [31]
- heating energy consumption index (SDG 7) [32]
- edition humboldt digital Flora ID (SDG 15) [33]
New Wikidata query examples
- Occupations of people on Wikidata dying of coronavirus (politician ranks higher than the next 3 occupations combined) (SDG 3) [15]
- Media articles, public documents and academic references on backward/cluster-focused contact tracing (including models) (SDG 3) [19]
- Protected heritage related to the Camino in the Basque Country (SDG 11) [20]
- Aberdeen recycling centers and recycling points (SDG 11) [23]
- Percentage of deaths caused by tuberculosis by decade (SDG 3) [34]
- Map of medicines used (green) to fight infectious diseases (orange) (SDG 3) [35]
Links
- [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
- [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Climate_translation_project
- [3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Sweden/Swedish_Riksdag_documents/Kopplingssprint
- [4] https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14903T
- [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lziiFlU220
- [6] https://mashable.com/feature/climate-change-wikipedia/
- [7] https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Одржлива_енергија
- [8] https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Договор_за_неширење_на_нуклеарно_оружје
- [9] https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Инвазивен_вид
- [10] https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Отпад_од_храна
- [11] https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Последици_од_глобалното_затоплување
- [12] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/11/21/gender-equality-survey-on-macedonian-wikipedia/
- [13] https://datastory.org/sv/data-stories/election-tracker
- [14] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8753
- [15] https://w.wiki/jPA
- [16] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8763
- [17] https://alec-demo.herokuapp.com/
- [18] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8786
- [19] https://w.wiki/bo6
- [20] https://w.wiki/6c3
- [21] https://wikimedia.se/2020/11/17/framtiden-for-riksdagens-data-i-wikidata/
- [22] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8843
- [23] https://w.wiki/nMw
- [24] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Climate_Change
- [25] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Online_edit-a-thon_on_climate_change_-_November_2020
- [26] https://scann.medium.com/wiki4climate-en-cinco-ediciones-n%C3%BAmero-uno-eed40f3aae2c
- [27] https://scann.medium.com/wiki4climate-en-3-ediciones-n%C3%BAmero-2-a7da29954e3
- [28] https://www.kcl.ac.uk/giwl/assets/covid-media-analysis.pdf
- [29] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NXbPOAjZBY
- [30] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8887
- [31] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8890
- [32] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8891
- [33] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8892
- [34] https://w.wiki/nir
- [35] https://w.wiki/oNW
- [36] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Sweden
- [37] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medieval_churches_on_Gotland
- [38] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_the_Netherlands
- [39] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_herpestids
- [40] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Journal_of_Herpetology
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