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_…
- [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-wiki…
- [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_…
- [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_fo…
- [16]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2020-06-28/WikiP…
- [17]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Black_Lives_Matter
- [18]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Mee…
- [19]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Nex…
- [20]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Nex…
- [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-…
- [25]
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/07/14/wikiherstory-a-month-long-initiative-…
- [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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