This is our ninth newsletter, covering August 2020. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 4, 6, 11, 13, 14, 15 and 17.

*Meetings*

- Upcoming: Online meeting - 2020-09-06 (SDG all) [1] - Upcoming: Online meeting - 2020-09-20 (SDG all) [1] - Past: Online meeting - 2020-08-02 (SDG all) [2]

*Activities*

- Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' celebrated its first published translation: 'Réchauffement climatique en Afrique', a French translation of the English Wikipedia article 'Climate change in Africa' by User:J. N. Squire in French (SDGs 4, 13) [20] - Past: World Water Week ISA campaign (SDG 6) [21] - Past: Editathon about Covid-19 in Swedish (SDG 3) [22] - Past: Editathon about water in Swedish (SDG 6) [23]

*News*

- Covid-19 is one of Wikipedia’s biggest challenges ever. Here’s how the site is handling it. (SDG 3) [12] - Adding biographies of female oceanographers (SDG 14) [13] - Wiki Education participants improve COVID-19 local response articles (SDG 3) [14] - Wikimedia Policy Brief - COVID-19 - How Wikipedia helps us through uncertain times (SDG 3) [15] - Personal perspective on the forming of the user group (SDG all) [19]

*Research*

- Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [3] - Wikidata-focused presentations at the Workshop "Data Science in Climate and Climate Impact Research https://wcr.ethz.ch/news-and-events/events/workshop--data-science-in-climate-and-climate-impact-research-.html" taking place on 20-21 August 2020 in Zurich and online. (SDGs 4, 13, 17) [16] [17]

*Videos*

- Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Data Perspective (SDGs 4, 13, 17) [18] - Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing about water #17 (SDG 6) [24], [25]

*Featured content*

- Vermilion flycatcher (SDG 15) [4] - Canada lynx (SDG 15) [5] - Meteorological history of Hurricane Dorian (SDG 11) [6] - Leeches (SDG 15) [7] - Gigantorhynchus (SDG 15) [8] - List of World Heritage Sites in Iceland (SDG 11) [9] - Ursidae (SDG 15) [10] - Mephitidae (SDG 15) [11] - Orangutan (SDG 15) [32] - Horseshoe bat (SDG 15) [33] - Hurricane Willa (SDG 11) [34] - List of World Heritage Sites in Lithuania (SDG 11) [35]

*New Wikidata properties*

- extinction date (SDG 15) [26] - Monumentbrowser ID (SDG 11) [27] - Nasjonalt skoleregister ID (SDG 4) [28] - American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus ID (SDG 11) [29] - Sculptures and cities database ID for sculptures (SDG 11) [31]

*New Wikidata query examples*

- Bar chart showing the number of research output (articles, etc) annotated with a SARSCoV2 proteins as 'main subject' (SDG 3) [30]

*Links*

- [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next... - [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Meet... - [3] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12109-020-09750-0 - [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermilion_flycatcher - [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_lynx - [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorological_history_of_Hurricane_Dorian - [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leech - [8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantorhynchus - [9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Iceland - [10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursidae - [11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mephitidae - [12] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/08/07/wikipedia-covid-coronav... - [13] https://wikiedu.org/blog/2020/08/06/adding-biographies-of-female-oceanograph... - [14] https://wikiedu.org/blog/2020/08/04/wiki-education-participants-improve-covi... - [15] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Policy_Brief_-_COVID-19_-_... - [16] Sarasua, Cristina, & Mietchen, Daniel. (2020, August). Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Community Perspective. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3994272 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3994272 - [17] Mietchen, Daniel, & Sarasua, Cristina. (2020, August). Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Data Perspective. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3994266 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3994266 - [18] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntI6hmT-rRc - [19] https://wikimedia.se/2020/08/19/wikimedians-for-sustainable-development/ - [20] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Clim... - [21] https://isa.toolforge.org/campaigns/77 - [22] https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wik-e-meet/6_augusti_2020 - [23] https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wik-e-meet_27_augusti - [24] https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2744955582456268... - [25] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDxz652CgwY - [26] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8556 - [27] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8543 - [28] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8545 - [29] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8540 - [30] https://w.wiki/a5X - [31] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8521 - [32] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangutan - [33] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_bat - [34] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Willa - [35] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Lithuania

Sent on behalf of the Wikimedians for Sustainable Development by Jan Ainali.