This is our third newsletter, covering February 2020. This issue has news related to SDGs 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13, 14, 15 and 17.
*Meetings* * We had our third online coordination meeting, minutes are available. (SDG 17) [1]
*Content* * Wikimedia Australia works on bushfire related content. (SDG 13) [7] * Creative Commons have published a new book: "Creative Commons for Educators and Librarians". (SDG 4) [10] * The Sustainable Development Goals template that was used on the Wikimania wiki has been copied to meta [12] and also adapted to an inline version. [13] They should be easy to copy to other wikis as well. (SDG all) * There are now user boxes available on some projects. (SDG 17) [16] * The WHO Electronic Essential Medicines List (eEML) has been released under a Creative Commons Attribution license. (SDG 3) [20]
*In the news* * On Wikipedia, a fight is raging over coronavirus disinformation (SDG 3) [11] * Does Biodiversity Informatics 💘 Wikidata? (SDG 14 & 15) [18] * Coronavirus in Wikipedia by language — visualized (SDG 3) [23]
*Highlighting* * Wikimedia Sverige has started a section on their website dedicated to the Sustainable Development Goals. (SDG all) [14]
*Upcoming events* * 2-6 March - Open Education Week. (SDG 4) [21] * 6 March - We are giving a keynote at Open Belgium. (SDG 17) [2] * 8 March - Several Wikigap events are being planned. (SDG 5) [3] * 11 March - Climate Justice Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, New York City, USA (SDG 10 & 13) [19] * [CANCELLED] - Wikimedia Summit 2020 cancelled due to global health risks (SDG 3) [22]
*New properties on Wikidata* * AnimalBase ID (SDG 14 & 15) [15] * Open Food Facts label (SDG 2) [17]
*New Wikidata query examples* * Number of cases of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus reported per country (SDG 3) [4] * Map of medical facilities in Kalimpong district, India, color-coded by type (SDG 3) [5] * Books related to LGBTI+ topics (SDG 5) [6] * Timeline of same-sex marriage legalization in various countries (SDG 5) [8] * Chart of the number of infections and deaths caused since the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, as reported by the World Health Organisation (SDG 3) [9]
*Links* * [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Meet... * [2] https://2020.openbelgium.be/session/sharing-knowledge-about-sustainable-deve... * [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap/2020/Events * [4] https://w.wiki/GTg * [5] https://w.wiki/GZw * [6] https://w.wiki/GZt * [7] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/January_2020/Contents/Au... * [8] https://w.wiki/GwV * [9] https://w.wiki/Gk4 * [10] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Creative_Commons_for_Educators_and_L... * [11] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/wikipedia-coronavirus * [12] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:SDG * [13] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:SDG_inline * [14] https://wikimedia.se/globala-malen/ * [15] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7905 * [16] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85965217 * [17] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7927 * [18] https://data-blog.gbif.org/post/wikidata/ * [19] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Climate_Justice_Wikipedia... * [20] https://list.essentialmeds.org/licencing * [21] https://www.openeducationweek.org/ * [22] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2020-February/094381.html * [23] https://towardsdatascience.com/coronavirus-interest-inwikipedia-by-language-...
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