Wikimedians for Sustainable Development/Newsletter/2021-07

This is our twentieth newsletter, covering July 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 4, 5, 11, 14, 15 and 16.

Meetings

• Online user group meeting August 1 (SDG all) [1]
• Online user group meeting August 15 (SDG all) [1]
• Past: Online user group meeting July 4 (SDG all) [7]

Wikimania

• During Wikimania there are a number of sessions related to our user group. We have started a page in the community village to list all the talks, please help add them if you are giving talks or spot sessions in the program. (SDG all) [6]

Activities

• Organize Wiki Loves Monuments in 2021 (SDG 11) [26]
• Past: Vaccine Safety Edit-a-thon (SDG 3) [5]

News

• Who Gets To Be Notable And Who Doesn't: Gender Bias On Wiki (SDG 5) [27]

Resources

• Gender diversity in articles about academic disciplines in the French wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]

Research

• Meta-Research: Citation needed? Wikipedia and the COVID-19 pandemic (SDG 3) [28]
• Covid-on-the-Web: Knowledge Graph and Services to Advance COVID-19 Research book (SDG 3) [29]
• Unveiling the veiled: Wikipedia collaborating with academic libraries in Africa in creating visibility for African women through Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon (SDG 5) [30]

Videos

• Wikipedia Weekly Network - Live editing Wikipedia: Biodiversity edition #4 (SDG 15) [2],[3]
• Editing Wikidata items about Ghanaian parliamentarians (SDG 16) [8]

New WikiProjects

• Wikidata:Gov Directory (SDG 16) [4]

New Wikidata properties

• voted on by (SDG 16) [9]
• delta of (SDG 14) [10]
• Idaho Species ID (SDG 15) [11]
• Montana Field Guide species ID (SDG 15) [12]
• E-Fauna BC species ID (SDG 15) [13]
• E-Flora BC species ID (SDG 15) [14]
• Buzer.de law identification (SDG 16) [15]
• taxon range (SDG 15) [17]
• URL for citizen's initiatives (SDG 16) [19]
• number of request signatories (SDG 16) [20]
• CEICE school code (SDG 4) [21]

New Wikidata query examples

• Scientific and Commons names of animals which are threatened as per IUCN Red List (SDG 15) [16]
• Comparing gender statistics about people cited in an article across several articles (SDG 5) [22]
• Swedish Supreme Court judges who citing reports by commissions they themselves took part in (SDG 16) [23]
• Map public organizations that allow one to fill citizen's initiatives online (SDG 16) [24]
• Number of causes of death (P509) 2019-2021 separated by year so that a comparison of the causes of death before and during the pandemic can also be seen (SDG 3) [25]

Links

• [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
• [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPqjs4PwrJk
• [3] https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediaweekly/permalink/4037199796327821/
• [4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Gov_Directory
• [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Vaccine_Safety_Wikipedia_Edit-a-thon_June_12,_2021
• [6] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Community_Village/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development
• [7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Meeting_minutes_20210704
• [8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eRbrmDlTr0
• [9] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9681
• [10] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9700
• [11] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9684
• [12] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9685
• [13] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9690
• [14] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9691
• [15] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9696
• [16] https://w.wiki/3b4k
• [17] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9714
• [18] https://public-paws.wmcloud.org/User:PAC2/Gender%20diversity%20in%20academic%20disciplines%20in%20the%20French%20wikipedia.ipynb
• [19] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9732
• [20] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9740
• [21] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9746
• [22] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:PAC2/Measuring_gender_diversity
• [23] https://w.wiki/3eFe
• [24] https://w.wiki/3dvP
• [25] https://w.wiki/3dT6
• [26] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/07/04/organize-wiki-loves-monuments-in-2021/
• [27] https://www.npr.org/2021/07/13/1015754856/who-gets-to-be-notable-and-who-doesnt-gender-bias-on-wiki
• [28] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.01.433379v1
• [29] https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02939363
• [30] https://doi.org/10.1108/DLP-08-2020-0079

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