Wikimedians for Sustainable Development/Newsletter/2020-11

This is our twelfth newsletter, covering November 2020. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16.

Meetings

• Online meeting December 6 (SDG all) [1]
• Online meeting December 20 (SDG all) [1]

Activities

• Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]
• Ongoing: December Women in Climate Change editathon (SDG 13) [24]
• Past: South South North hosted #Wiki4Climate (SDG 13) [25]
• Past: Enriching parliamentary documents metadata editathon (in Swedish) (SDG 16) [3]

News

• The guardians of Wikipedia's climate page (SDG 13) [6]
• Gender equality survey on Macedonian Wikipedia (SDG 5) [12]
• The future of the Riksdag's data in Wikidata (in Swedish, SDG 16) [21]
• #Wiki4climate newsletter on Spanish Wikipedia: 3 edits in 5 minutes, number one [26] & number two [27] (SDG 13)
• Women’s representation and voice in media coverage of the coronavirus crisis (SDG 3 and 5) [28]

Resources

• The election tracker (SDG 16) [13]
• ALEC (A List of Everything Cool) is a tool to explore biodiversity content in Wikidata (SDG 15) [17]

Research

• A general method for estimating the prevalence of Influenza-Like-Symptoms with Wikipedia data (SDG 3) [4]

Videos

• Thriving Online – How to Be a Climate Wikipedian (SDG 13) [5]
• Strategies for Assembling the Biodiversity Knowledge Graph (SDG 15) [29]

Featured content

• Одржлива енергија (English: Sustainable energy) (SDG 7) [7]
• Договор за неширење на нуклеарно оружје (English: Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons) (SDG 16) [8]
• Инвазивен вид (English: Invasive species) (SDG 15) [9]
• Отпад од храна (English: Food waste) (SDG 12) [10]
• Последици од глобалното затоплување (English: Effects of climate change) (SDG 13) [11]
• List of World Heritage Sites in Sweden (SDG 11) [36]
• List of medieval churches on Gotland (SDG 11) [37]
• List of World Heritage Sites in the Netherlands (SDG 11) [38]
• List of herpestids (SDG 15) [39]
• Australian Journal of Herpetology (SDG 15) [40]

New Wikidata properties

• annual average daily traffic (SDG 11 & 13) [14]
• birth rate (SDG 3) [16]
• dedicated heritage entity (SDG 11) [18]
• poverty incidence (SDG 1) [22]
• water area (SDG 14) [30]
• power consumption index (SDG 7) [31]
• heating energy consumption index (SDG 7) [32]
• edition humboldt digital Flora ID (SDG 15) [33]

New Wikidata query examples

• Occupations of people on Wikidata dying of coronavirus (politician ranks higher than the next 3 occupations combined) (SDG 3) [15]
• Media articles, public documents and academic references on backward/cluster-focused contact tracing (including models) (SDG 3) [19]
• Protected heritage related to the Camino in the Basque Country (SDG 11) [20]
• Aberdeen recycling centers and recycling points (SDG 11) [23]
• Percentage of deaths caused by tuberculosis by decade (SDG 3) [34]
• Map of medicines used (green) to fight infectious diseases (orange) (SDG 3) [35]

Links

• [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
• [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Climate_translation_project
• [3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Sweden/Swedish_Riksdag_documents/Kopplingssprint
• [4] https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14903T
• [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lziiFlU220
• [6] https://mashable.com/feature/climate-change-wikipedia/
• [7] https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Одржлива_енергија
• [8] https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Договор_за_неширење_на_нуклеарно_оружје
• [9] https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Инвазивен_вид
• [10] https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Отпад_од_храна
• [11] https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Последици_од_глобалното_затоплување
• [12] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/11/21/gender-equality-survey-on-macedonian-wikipedia/
• [13] https://datastory.org/sv/data-stories/election-tracker
• [14] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8753
• [15] https://w.wiki/jPA
• [16] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8763
• [17] https://alec-demo.herokuapp.com/
• [18] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8786
• [19] https://w.wiki/bo6
• [20] https://w.wiki/6c3
• [21] https://wikimedia.se/2020/11/17/framtiden-for-riksdagens-data-i-wikidata/
• [22] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8843
• [23] https://w.wiki/nMw
• [24] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Climate_Change
• [25] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Online_edit-a-thon_on_climate_change_-_November_2020
• [26] https://scann.medium.com/wiki4climate-en-cinco-ediciones-n%C3%BAmero-uno-eed40f3aae2c
• [27] https://scann.medium.com/wiki4climate-en-3-ediciones-n%C3%BAmero-2-a7da29954e3
• [28] https://www.kcl.ac.uk/giwl/assets/covid-media-analysis.pdf
• [29] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NXbPOAjZBY
• [30] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8887
• [31] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8890
• [32] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8891
• [33] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8892
• [34] https://w.wiki/nir
• [35] https://w.wiki/oNW
• [36] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Sweden
• [37] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medieval_churches_on_Gotland
• [38] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_the_Netherlands
• [39] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_herpestids
• [40] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Journal_of_Herpetology

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