Wikimedians for Sustainable Development/Newsletter/2021-03

This is our sixteenth newsletter, covering March 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 4, 11, 13 and 15. This month we handed in our first annual activity report. [7]

Meetings

• Online user group meeting April 4 (SDG all) [1]
• Online user group meeting April 18 (SDG all) [1]
• Past: Online user group meeting March 7 (SDG all) [5]

Activities

• Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]
• Upcoming: Climate Lexeme Week 5-11 April (SDG 13) [4]
• Upcoming: #WikiForHumanRights 2021: Right to a healthy environment (SDG all) [20]

News

• Podcast on the Wikimedia Sustainability Initiative (SDG 13) [8]

Research

• Global biodiversity awareness tracked with Wikipedia page views (SDG 15) [3]
• COVIWD: COVID-19 Wikidata Dashboard (SDG 3) [10]
• Painel de informação sobre a COVID-19: consultas SPARQL na Wikidata (Portuguese) (SDG 3) [15]

Videos

• What has the Wikimedia movement to do with sustainability? (SDG 13) [6]
• COVID-19 coverage on Wikidata (SDG 3) [9]

New Wikidata properties

• NParks Flora & Fauna Web ID (SDG 15) [11]
• Cephalopod Ontology ID (SDG 15) [12]
• Encyclopedia of French Cultural Heritage in North America ID (SDG 11) [16]
• Ministry of Education New Zealand school ID (SDG 4) [17]
• Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology ID (SDG 15) [18]

New Wikidata query examples

• COVID-19 external Identifier URLs in Wikidata (SDG 3) [13]
• Map of places in iNaturalist (SDG 15) [14]
• Listed buildings in Wales that would be lost if the sea level rose by 70 metres (SDG 11) [19]

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.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/ucl-gba031921.php
• [4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Climate_Change/Climate_lexeme_week
• [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Meeting_minutes_20210307
• [6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvLnIsgZ2AI
• [7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Reports/2020
• [8] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WP_127_-_sustainability_initiative.mp3
• [9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYJvBgVWTqM
• [10] https://dx.doi.org/10.21609/jiki.v14i1.941
• [11] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9243
• [12] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9334
• [13] https://w.wiki/36ss
• [14] https://w.wiki/37T2
• [15] https://revistas.ufpr.br/atoz/article/view/76684/42120
• [16] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9357
• [17] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9360
• [18] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9356
• [19] https://w.wiki/38Lr
• [20] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights

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