Wikimedians for Sustainable Development/Newsletter/2020-12

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This is our thirteenth newsletter, covering December 2020. This issue has news related to SDGs 2, 4, 11, 13 and 15.

Meetings

• Online meeting January 3 (SDG all) [1]
• Online meeting January 17 (SDG all) [1]

Activities

• Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]
• Past: December Women in Climate Change editathon (SDG 13) [3]

News

• Corona vaccine progress (SDG 3) [8]
• A challenging but successful year for Wikimedia in education (SDG 4) [9]

Videos

• Wikidata for Bat Collectors (SDG 15) [5]
• Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #25 - climate change (SDG 13) [10]
• Wikipedia and Women in the Climate Change Movement (SDG 13) [11]
• Facing the climate crisis: Towards an environmentally sustainable Wikimedia Movement (Wikimedia Movement Strategy global conversations lightning talk) (SDG 13) [16]
• An update from the Sustainability Initiative (WikiCon North America 2020 lightning talk) (SDG 13) [17]

New WikiProjects

• Wikidata:WikiProject Agriculture (SDG 2) [4]
• Wikidata:WikiProject Media Representation (SDG 5) [6]

Featured content

• Scorpion (SDG 15) [12]
• List of plant genus names (A–C) (SDG 15) [13]
• List of plant genus names (D–K) (SDG 15) [14]
• List of plant genus names (L–P) (SDG 15) [15]

New Wikidata properties

• Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager project ID (SDG 11) [7]

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://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Climate_Change
• [4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Agriculture
• [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYvoXKBSGA8
• [6] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Media_Representation
• [7] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8973
• [8] https://github.com/salgo60/CoronaVaccinationCheck/blob/main/README.md
• [9] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/12/18/a-challenging-but-successful-year-for-wikimedia-in-education/
• [10] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmzEk8uYSf4
• [11] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwY02vBCgnI
• [12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpion
• [13] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_plant_genus_names_(A%E2%80%93C)
• [14] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_plant_genus_names_(D%E2%80%93K)
• [15] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_plant_genus_names_(L%E2%80%93P)
• [16] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:5_December_Global_Conversations_lightning_talks_-_Facing_the_climate_crisis.webm
• [16] https://mit.zoom.us/rec/play/zG7xM6nYDn5JRFh2wxWFiNLwonxCQlyAiJpmRN-PBZoWQr52hh-Kxfgk7kNLoPUrf_BlGEKEqDOnXUM.r18YQCGp6r-VIe6y (at 31:00)

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