Hi all
I'm very happy to say that UNESCO has made the official descriptions of all
Biosphere Reserve sites available under a Wikipedia compatible license.
Currently around 440 (out of 670) of the Biosphere Reserves do not have an
English language Wikipedia article.
These descriptions can be used as the missing Wikipedia articles with very
little adaption. I have created (with a lot of help) a pretty snazzy
Wikidata map and a set of instructions to help people create the missing
articles. As far as I know this is the first time someone has done
something like this The people who have already used the instructions say
it takes around 10 minutes to create a new article, which is quite fast I
think. Please give it a try. You can use the map to see which articles are
missing in each country.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiProject_UNESCO/Create_Biosphere_Reserve…
I would really love it if you could create some articles (there are quite a
few missing sites in Africa) and also retweet me to help more people know
about it. Once the articles are created in English I'm hoping that it will
make it easier for people to create articles in other languages as well.
https://twitter.com/mrjohnc/status/733623393233346560
Thanks very much
John