Wikimedians for Sustainable Development/Newsletter/2023-01

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This is our twentythird newsletter, covering January 2023. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 5, 10, 11, 13, 14 and 16.

Meetings

Activities

News

Resources

Videos

Featured content

New Wikidata properties

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This is our twentythird newsletter, covering January 2023. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 5, 10, 11, 13, 14 and 16.

Meetings

  • Upcoming: 19 February - User group meeting (SDG all) [10]
  • Past: 15 January - User group meeting (SDG all) [11]

Activities

  • Ongoing: Wiki Loves Plants (SDG 14) [18]
  • Ongoing: 365 climate edits (SDG 13) [27]
  • Upcoming: The 2023 Bug of the Year Edit-a-thon (SDG 14) [20]
  • Past: Lexeme challenge Urology (SDG 3) [1]
  • Past: Swedish Wikipedia weekly challenge - Frogs versus lizards (SDG 14) [13]
  • Past: Three hundred episodes of Critter of the Week (SDG 14) [14]
  • Past: Wikidata Queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and pandemic (SDG 3) [21]
  • Past: Women in Climate Change 2022 (SDG 5 & 13) [26]

News

  • The stories behind the Wiki Loves Earth 2022 photos from Türkiye (SDG 14) [5]
  • Announcing our funding support from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) (SDG 3) [8]
  • Jumping for science: how Wikipedia assignments inspire STEM students (SDG 14) [9]
  • Birds of NYC Photo Contest Winners announced! (SDG 14) [12]
  • Using Wikidata to Connect Constituents With Their Government (SDG 16) [23]
  • Wiki Loves Earth 2022 presents the winners of the special nomination “Human rights and environment”! (SDG 10 & 14) [25]
  • Equity, diversity & inclusion in affiliate governance (SDG 5 & 10) [28]

Resources

  • Building a Life Sciences Knowledge Graph with a Data Lake (SDG 3) [24]

Videos

  • Editor uses Wikidata to find new uses for existing drugs and speed up approval process for new treatments (SDG 3) [6]
  • WikiForHumanRights Information Session (SDG 10) [19]

Featured content

  • English Wikipedia: List of birds of Tuvalu (SDG 14) [15]
  • English Wikipedia: List of World Heritage Sites in Laos (SDG 11) [16]
  • English Wikipedia: List of World Heritage Sites in Bangladesh (SDG 11) [17]

New Wikidata properties

  • NIP (SDG 16) [2]
  • NSR doctor ID (SDG 3) [3]
  • UniProt disease ID (SDG 3) [4]
  • Strazha ID (SDG 16) [7]
  • United States House of Representatives ID (SDG 16) [22]

Links

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