This is our eighth newsletter, covering July 2020. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 5, 7, 10, 11, 15 and 16.

*Meetings*

- Upcoming: Wikimedians for Sustainable Development online meeting August 2 (SDG all) [19] - Upcoming: Wikimedians for Sustainable Development online meeting August 16 (SDG all) [20] - Past: Wikimedians for Sustainable Development online meeting July 5 (SDG all) [18]

*News*

- Another Wikipedian is cultivated (SDG 3) [1] - Wikijournal of Medicine to be indexed in SCOPUS (SDG 3) [2] - How Wikipedia Became a Battleground for Racial Justice (SDG 10) [3] - Sask. doctor keeps COVID-19 Wikipedia info accurate with encyclopedic dedication (SDG 3) [4] - We stand for racial justice (SDG 10) [10] - Edit Loud, Edit Proud: LGBTIQ+ Wikimedians and Global Information Activism (SDG 10) [15] - WikiProject Black Lives Matter (SDG 10) [16] - The Power of Knowledge: A Look at the AfroCROWD Juneteenth Conference on Civil Rights (SDG 10) [24] - #WikiHerStory: a month-long initiative to amplify gender equity work on Wikimedia projects (SDG 5) [25] - How the internet will change our coronavirus memories (SDG 3) [26] - How volunteers created Wikipedia’s world-beating Covid-19 coverage (SDG 3) [30] - COVIWD - A Covid-19 Wikidata dashboard (SDG 3) [31]

*Research*

- COVID-19 research in Wikipedia (SDG 3) [11] - A Quantitative Portrait of Wikipedia's High-Tempo Collaborations during the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic (SDG 3) [12] - COVID-19 mobility restrictions increased interest in health and entertainment topics on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [13] - A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata, a case report (SDG 3) [14]

*Videos*

- Wikimedia Research: Medical knowledge on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [23] - More black stories need to be told -- and more black contributors need to tell them! (SDG 10) [29]

*New WikiProjects*

- Wikipedia:WikiProject Black Lives Matter (SDG 10) [17]

*Featured content*

- Alpine newt (SDG 15) [5] - Dementia with Lewy bodies (SDG 3) [6] - Secretarybird (SDG 15) [7] - List of procyonids (SDG 15) [8] - List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Berkshire (SDG 15) [8]

*New Wikidata properties*

- thefreedictionary medical term ID (SDG 3) [21] - Naturvårdsverket Anordningar OBJECTID (SDG 15) [22] - public transport stop (SDG 11) [27] - energy consumption per transaction (SDG 7) [28] - BTI Governance Index (SDG 16) [32] - BTI Status Index (SDG 16) [32] - distribution map of taxon (SDG 15) [34] - Queensland Biota ID (SDG 15) [35] - Australian Weed ID (SDG 15) [36]

*Links*

- [1] https://wikiedu.org/blog/2020/07/01/another-wikipedian-is-cultivated/ - [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2020-06-28/News_a... - [3] https://slate.com/technology/2020/06/wikipedia-george-floyd-neutrality.html - [4] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sask-doctor-keeps-covid-19-wikip... - [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_newt - [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dementia_with_Lewy_bodies - [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretarybird - [8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_procyonids - [9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sites_of_Special_Scientific_Interest_i... - [10] https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2020/06/03/we-stand-for-racial-justice/ - [11] https://doi.org/10.1101%2F2020.05.10.087643 - [12] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.08899.pdf - [13] https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.08505 - [14] https://doi.org/10.1101%2F2020.04.05.026336 - [15] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2020-06-28/In_foc... - [16] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2020-06-28/WikiPr... - [17] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Black_Lives_Matter - [18] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Meet... - [19] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next... - [20] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next... - [21] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8401 - [22] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8409 - [23] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIV26lWrD9c - [24] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/07/14/the-power-of-knowledge-a-look-at-the-a... - [25] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/07/14/wikiherstory-a-month-long-initiative-t... - [26] https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/covid19-memory-history - [27] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8453 - [28] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8461 - [29] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVCViux--xw - [30] https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/16-07-2020/how-volunteers-created-wikipedias-... - [31] https://www.coviwd.org/ - [32] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8476 - [33] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8477 - [34] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8485 - [35] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8468 - [36] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8469

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