[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - December Newsletter

[Jan Ainali]

This is our thirteenth newsletter, covering December 2020. This issue has
news related to SDGs 2, 4, 11, 13 and 15.

*Meetings*

   - Online user group meeting January 3 (SDG all) [1]
   - Online user group meeting January 17 (SDG all) [1]

*Activities*

   - Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]
   - Past: December Women in Climate Change editathon (SDG 13) [3]

*News*

   - Corona vaccine progress (SDG 3) [8]
   - A challenging but successful year for Wikimedia in education (SDG 4)
   [9]

*Videos*

   - Wikidata for Bat Collectors (SDG 15) [5]
   - Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #25 - climate change
   (SDG 13) [10]
   - Wikipedia and Women in the Climate Change Movement (SDG 13) [11]
   - Facing the climate crisis: Towards an environmentally sustainable
   Wikimedia Movement (Wikimedia Movement Strategy global conversations
   lightning talk) (SDG 13) [16]
   - An update from the Sustainability Initiative (WikiCon North America
   2020 lightning talk) (SDG 13) [17]

*New WikiProjects*

   - Wikidata:WikiProject Agriculture (SDG 2) [4]
   - Wikidata:WikiProject Media Representation (SDG 5) [6]

*Featured content*

   - Scorpion (SDG 15) [12]
   - List of plant genus names (A–C) (SDG 15) [13]
   - List of plant genus names (D–K) (SDG 15) [14]
   - List of plant genus names (L–P) (SDG 15) [15]

*New Wikidata properties*

   - Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager project ID (SDG 11) [7]

*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://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Climate_Change
   - [4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Agriculture
   - [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYvoXKBSGA8
   - [6]
   https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Media_Representation
   - [7] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8973
   - [8]
   https://github.com/salgo60/CoronaVaccinationCheck/blob/main/README.md
   - [9]
   
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/12/18/a-challenging-but-successful-year-for-wikimedia-in-education/
   - [10] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmzEk8uYSf4
   - [11] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwY02vBCgnI
   - [12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpion
   - [13]
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_plant_genus_names_(A%E2%80%93C)
   - [14]
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_plant_genus_names_(D%E2%80%93K)
   - [15]
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_plant_genus_names_(L%E2%80%93P)
   - [16]
   
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:5_December_Global_Conversations_lightning_talks_-_Facing_the_climate_crisis.webm
   - [16]
   
https://mit.zoom.us/rec/play/zG7xM6nYDn5JRFh2wxWFiNLwonxCQlyAiJpmRN-PBZoWQr52hh-Kxfgk7kNLoPUrf_BlGEKEqDOnXUM.r18YQCGp6r-VIe6y
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF transfers $8.7 million to "Wikimedia Knowledge Equity Fund"

[Dan Garry (Deskana)]

On Sat, 2 Jan 2021 at 07:46, rupert THURNER 
wrote:

> have a good start into the new year everybody! should not, ideally, the
> legal team of amanda keton be able to tell if fundting something is legal?
> or is this a liability issue, so tides would be liable for misconduct, and
> not a person within wikimedia foundation?
>

Given Tides' core competencies as an organisation, one would expect that
the legal folks there have more experience in handling matters relating to
things like what activities a 501(c)(3) can fund, more knowledge of the
statutes, case law, precedent, etc. I'm sure the Legal team at the WMF
could do this too, but they might have less experience with it than in
other areas of the law, meaning they'd have to start from scratch with lots
of time-consuming research, whereas contracting with an organisation that
specialises in exactly this might be better.

So, I don't think it's quite as simple as whether they can do it or not,
but more about what would be more efficient and comprehensive.

Dan
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