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/Nex…
- [2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Mee…
- [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-corona…
- [13]
https://wikiedu.org/blog/2020/08/06/adding-biographies-of-female-oceanograp…
- [14]
https://wikiedu.org/blog/2020/08/04/wiki-education-participants-improve-cov…
- [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/Cli…
- [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/274495558245626…
- [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.