Wikimedians for Sustainable Development/Newsletter/2021-01

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This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15.

Meetings

• Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
• Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
• Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
• Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

• Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

• The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
• Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
• One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
• The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

• Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
• Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
• A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
• Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
• Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
• Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

• derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
• number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
• Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
• Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

• Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
• Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
• Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
• Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
• Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

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://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/01/04/the-vaccine-safety-project-on-wikipedia/
• [4] https://w.wiki/sRE
• [5] https://w.wiki/sWv
• [6] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/01/08/wiki-for-covid-19-2020-the-year-of-information/
• [7] https://bv.fapesp.br/en/bolsas/193825/building-a-biological-knowledge-graph-via-wikidata-with-a-focus-on-the-human-cell-atlas/
• [8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8sMVkEOQVE
• [9] https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-020-00940-y
• [10] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transition/Discuss/Cluster_G
• [11] https://w.wiki/swj
• [12] https://w.wiki/u4G
• [13] https://w.wiki/rp7
• [14] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9072
• [15] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9077
• [16] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9076
• [17] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9079
• [18] https://www.npr.org/2021/01/04/953334366/one-page-at-a-time-jess-wade-is-changing-wikipedia
• [19] https://www.glamour.com/story/the-women-of-wikipedia-are-writing-themselves-into-history
• [20] https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs12109-020-09750-0
• [21] https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10820
• [22] https://doi.org/10.20368%2F1971-8829%2F1135322
• [23] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transition/Discuss/Cluster_H

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