[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - March Newsletter

This is our fourth newsletter, covering March 2020. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 11 and 17. *Becoming a User Group* - Wikimedians for Sustainable Development are recognized as a Wikimedia user Group [5] *In the news* - Wikipedia is flooded with information — but it has a blind spot (SDG 11) [1] *New WikiProjects* - Wikidata:WikiProject COVID-19 (SDG 3) [9] - (Arabic) ويكيبيديا:مشروع ويكي طب/فريق عمل كوفيد-19 (SDG 3) [10] - (Czech) Wikipedie:WikiProjekt SARS-CoV-2 (SDG 3) [11] - (English) Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19 (SDG 3) [12] *Academic studies* - Uneven Coverage of Natural Disasters in Wikipedia: the Case of Floods (SDG 11) [2] *Events* - The COVID-19 pandemic halts all in-person events funded through the Wikimedia Foundation (SDG 3) [6] - Which lead to a renewed interest in remote events (SDG 17) [8] *Information from the Wikimedia Foundation* - COVID-19 (SDG 3) [20] *The Sustainable Development Goals* - The United Nations adopt changes to the Sustainable Development Goal Indicators (SDG-all) [7] *New Wikidata properties* - GreatSchools ID (SDG 4) [4] - food energy (SDG 1) [14] - number of recoveries (SDG 3) [15] - number of clinical tests (SDG 3) [16] *New Wikidata example queries* - Updated chart of the number of infections and deaths caused since the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, as reported by the World Health Organisation (SDG 3) [3] - World map of hospitals (SDG 3) [13] - Notable people with COVID-19 by number of sitelinks (SDG 3) [17] - COVID-19 case statistics for India (SDG 3): - State-level map [18] - State-level line graph [19] *Links* - [1] https://grist.org/justice/wikipedia-is-flooded-with-information-but-it-has-… - [2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.08810.pdf - [3] https://w.wiki/J8S - [4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7948 - [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognit… - [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/COVID-19_Notice - [7] http://sdg.iisd.org/news/un-statistical-commission-adopts-36-changes-to-sdg… - [8] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiProject_remote_event_participation - [9] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_COVID-19 - [10] https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9… - [11] https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:WikiProjekt_SARS-CoV-2 - [12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_COVID-19 - [13] https://w.wiki/JnC - [14] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7971 - [15] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8010 - [16] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8011 - [17] https://w.wiki/KqP - [18] https://w.wiki/KzH - [19] https://w.wiki/KtX - [20] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/COVID-19 Do you want to get this newsletter delivered to your userpage? Sign up here:https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Wikime… This message was sent with by User:Ainali on behalf of Wikimedians for Sustainable Development.