Wikimedians for Sustainable Development/Newsletter/2023-01
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editThis 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)
- Past: 15 January - User group meeting (SDG all)
Activities
- Ongoing: Wiki Loves Plants (SDG 14)
- Ongoing: 365 climate edits (SDG 13)
- Upcoming: The 2023 Bug of the Year Edit-a-thon (SDG 14)
- Past: Lexeme challenge Urology (SDG 3)
- Past: Swedish Wikipedia weekly challenge - Frogs versus lizards (SDG 14)
- Past: Three hundred episodes of Critter of the Week (SDG 14)
- Past: Wikidata Queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and pandemic (SDG 3)
- Past: Women in Climate Change 2022 (SDG 5 & 13)
News
- The stories behind the Wiki Loves Earth 2022 photos from Türkiye (SDG 14)
- Announcing our funding support from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) (SDG 3)
- Jumping for science: how Wikipedia assignments inspire STEM students (SDG 14)
- Birds of NYC Photo Contest Winners announced! (SDG 14)
- Using Wikidata to Connect Constituents With Their Government (SDG 16)
- Wiki Loves Earth 2022 presents the winners of the special nomination “Human rights and environment”! (SDG 10 & 14)
- Equity, diversity & inclusion in affiliate governance (SDG 5 & 10)
Resources
Videos
- Editor uses Wikidata to find new uses for existing drugs and speed up approval process for new treatments (SDG 3)
- WikiForHumanRights Information Session (SDG 10)
Featured content
- English Wikipedia: List of birds of Tuvalu (SDG 14)
- English Wikipedia: List of World Heritage Sites in Laos (SDG 11)
- English Wikipedia: List of World Heritage Sites in Bangladesh (SDG 11)
New Wikidata properties
- NIP (SDG 16)
- NSR doctor ID (SDG 3)
- UniProt disease ID (SDG 3)
- Strazha ID (SDG 16)
- United States House of Representatives ID (SDG 16)
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editThis 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
- [1] https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=74
- [2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11429
- [3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11402
- [4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11430
- [5] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/01/05/the-stories-behind-the-wiki-loves-earth-2022-photos-from-turkiye/
- [6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HW6YxXRL18
- [7] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11446
- [8] https://wikiedu.org/blog/2023/01/05/announcing-our-funding-support-from-the-patient-centered-outcomes-research-institute-pcori/
- [9] https://wikiedu.org/blog/2023/01/04/jumping-for-science-how-wikipedia-assignments-inspire-stem-students/
- [10] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
- [11] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Meeting_minutes_20230115
- [12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Birds_of_NYC_Photo_Contest/Winners
- [13] https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Veckans_tävling/Grodor_versus_ödlor
- [14] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/December_2022/Contents/New_Zealand_report#Three_hundred_episodes_of_Critter_of_the_Week
- [15] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birds_of_Tuvalu
- [16] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Laos
- [17] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Bangladesh
- [18] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Plants
- [19] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiForHumanRights_Information_Session_2023.webm
- [20] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Dunedin_5
- [21] https://zenodo.org/record/7521891#.Y9p6MdLMKw4
- [22] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11500
- [23] https://anchor.fm/civichackerpodcast/episodes/Using-Wikidata-to-Connect-Constituents-With-Their-Government-e1or922
- [24] https://www.databricks.com/blog/2023/01/26/building-life-sciences-knowledge-graph-data-lake.html
- [25] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/01/23/wiki-loves-earth-2022-presents-the-winners-of-the-special-nomination-human-rights-and-environment/
- [26] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Climate_Change_2022
- [27] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/365_climate_edits
- [28] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/01/19/equity-diversity-inclusion-in-affiliate-governance/
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