Wikimedians for Sustainable Development/Newsletter/2021-02

This is our fifteenth newsletter, covering February 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 5, 12, 13, 15 and 16.

Meetings

• Online user group meeting March 7 (SDG all) [1]
• Online user group meeting March 21 (SDG all) [1]
• Past: Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [5]
• Past: Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [6]

Activities

• Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]
• Upcoming: Wikigap - many events over the entire month of March (SDG 5) [12]
• Upcoming: Mozilla festival: What has the Wikimedia movement to do with sustainability? March 10 (SDG all) [22]
• Wikimeet India lightning talk: An update from the Sustainability Initiative (video recording) (SDG 13) [9]

News

• Building a sustainable Wikipedia (podcast) (SDG all) [3]
• Wikipedia-samarbete mellan klimatforskare och gymnasieelever (in Swedish. English title: Wikipedia collaboration between climate scientists and college students) (SDG 13) [4]
• Wikipedia’s Sprawling, Awe-Inspiring Coverage of the Pandemic (SDG 3) [10]
• Podcast: Sustainababble #205 Wikipedia (SDG all) [21]

Grant proposals
Help by discussing and reviewing these proposals

• Expanding the Wikimedia movement in Peru with a focus on ecology, culture and gender (SDG 5 and 15) [8]
• Wiki’s global goals (SDG all) [18]
• Wiki meets Sustainable Fashion (SDG 12) [19]

Videos

• Wikipedia Weekly Network - Live editing Wikipedia: Biodiversity edition #1 (SDG 15) [11]
• COVID-19 coverage on Wikidata (SDG 3) [20]

New WikiProjects

• Wikiproyecto:Cambio climático (SDG 13) [7]
• WikiProject Brazilian Laws (SDG 16) [15]

Featured content

• Featured article: Smooth newt (SDG 15) [23]

New Wikidata properties

• number of vaccinations (SDG 3) [13]
• Open Tree of Life ID (SDG 15) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

• Endemic birds in a place located in France (SDG 15) [14]
• Most specific taxon that includes two given species (SDG 15) [16]

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://headstuffpodcasts.com/episode/building-a-sustainable-wikipedia
• [4] https://www.geo.uu.se/nyheter/?tarContentId=913412
• [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Meeting_minutes_20210207
• [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Meeting_minutes_20210221
• [7] https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiproyecto:Cambio_clim%C3%A1tico
• [8] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Expanding_the_Wikimedia_movement_in_Peru_with_a_focus_on_ecology,_culture_and_gender
• [9] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Wikimeet_India_2021/Submissions/An_update_from_the_Sustainability_Initiative
• [10] https://newrepublic.com/article/161486/wikipedia-coverage-pandemic-covid
• [11] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhObYsuy37Q
• [12] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap/2021/Events
• [13] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9107
• [14] https://w.wiki/xs3
• [15] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Brazilian_Laws
• [16] https://w.wiki/zPN
• [17] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9157
• [18] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wiki%E2%80%99s_global_goals
• [19] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wiki_meets_Sustainable_Fashion
• [20] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYJvBgVWTqM
• [21] http://www.sustainababble.fish/?p=1242
• [22] https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/KJMLPY-1
• [23] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth_newt

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