Wikimedians for Sustainable Development/Newsletter/2021-04

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This is our seventeenth newsletter, covering April 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 5, 8, 10, 11, 13, 15 and 16.

Meetings

• Online user group meeting May 2 (SDG all) [1]
• Online user group meeting May 16 (SDG all) [1]
• Past: Online user group meeting April 4 (SDG all) [9]
• Past: Online user group meeting April 18 (SDG all) [10]

Activities

• Ongoing: #WikiForHumanRights 2021: Right to a healthy environment, April 15 - May 15 (SDG all) [2]
• Ongoing: Wiki Loves Earth (SDG 15) Starts in May, check your local end date[8]
• Upcoming: Festa da Wiki-Lusofonia, May 8 (SDG all) [21]
• Past: LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: “GaNCH: Using Wikidata for Georgia's Natural, Cultural, and Historic Organizations' Disaster Response.” (SDG 11) [3]

News

• Interview with Anastasia Petrova, project manager for Wiki Loves Earth international (SDG 15) [11]
• Humaniki March Update: Public Launch of Alpha Release (SDG 5) [13]

Videos

• Wikidata Lab XXVII: WikiProject Brazilian Laws (SDG 16) [4]

New Wikidata properties

• law digest (SDG 16) [5]
• trade union membership rate (SDG 8) [6]
• NHS Organisation Data Service ID (SDG 3) [7]
• OregonFlora taxon ID (SDG 15) [12]
• Indigenous Lands in Brazil ID (SDG 10) [14]
• National Database of Laws and Regulations ID (SDG 16) [15]
• National Inventory of Dams ID (SDG 7) [16]
• Washington Rare Plant Field Guide ID (SDG 15) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

• Coal-fired power plants in Germany (SDG 13) [18]
• The number of natural disasters in various countries since 1970 (SDG 11) [19]
• Map of about one third of the ancient trees in Bulgaria (SDG 15) [20]

Links

• [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
• [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights
• [3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zcVtZiMgz4kNEs-yL8vqC4eCholllpQ8whX2pb7qUcI/edit
• [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWeJ0wlezyw
• [5] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9376
• [6] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9396
• [7] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9372
• [8] http://wikilovesearth.org/
• [9] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Meeting_minutes_20210404
• [10] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Meeting_minutes_20210418
• [11] http://wikipediapodden.se/episode-133-wiki-loves-earth/
• [12] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9423
• [13] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/03/15/humaniki-march-update-public-launch-of-alpha-release/
• [14] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9442
• [15] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9457
• [16] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9439
• [17] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9460
• [18] https://w.wiki/3DoA
• [19] https://w.wiki/3Cs8
• [20] https://w.wiki/3EtL
• [21] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Festa_da_Wiki-Lusofonia/Eventos/Sess%C3%A3o_principal

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