Wikimedians for Sustainable Development/Newsletter/2021-05

This is our eighteenth newsletter, covering May 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 9, 13 and 15. This month we especially saw a lot of new identifiers for different species in Wikidata, making it easier to use Wikidata as a hub and look up and compare species in different databases.

Meetings

  • Online user group meeting June 6 (SDG all) [1]
  • Online user group meeting June 20 (SDG all) [1]
  • Past: Online user group meeting May 16 (SDG all) [22]

Activities

  • Ongoing: Wiki Loves Earth (SDG 15) [2]
  • Past: Sharing lessons & results from the Spanish Wikiproject Climate change first edit-a-thon for Earth Day (SDG 13) [3]
  • Past: Sustainable Development Goals: Edit-a-thon for the Festa da Wiki-Lusofonia (20 years of Portuguese Wikipedia cellebrations) (SDG all) [4]

News

  • Over 3,000,000 usages of taxon name (P225) (SDG 15) [6]

New Wikidata properties

  • degrees day (SDG 13) [5]
  • Oregon Flora Image Project ID (SDG 15) [7]
  • MyBIS species ID (SDG 15) [8]
  • IUCN Green List ID (SDG 15 [9]
  • OpenCorporates register ID (SDG 9) [10]
  • MyBIS protected area ID (SDG 15) [11]
  • Danish 2010 redlist identifier (SDG 15) [12]
  • Microlepidoptera.nl ID (SDG 15) [13]
  • North Carolina session law (SDG 16) [15]
  • SOR bird ID (SDG 15) [16]
  • ToateAnimalele ID (SDG 15) [17]
  • Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa ID (SDG 15) [21]

New Wikidata query examples

  • Number of species belonging to the different IUCN conservation categories (SDG 15) [14]
  • Map of coronavirus research organizations active from before 2020 (SDG 3) [18]
  • Scholarly articles about COVID-19 with "Wikipedia" in the title (SDG 3) [19]
  • Nocturnal animals based on diel cycle (SDG 15) [20]

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