This is our fourth newsletter, covering March 2020. This issue has news
related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 11 and 17.
*Becoming a User Group*
- Wikimedians for Sustainable Development are recognized as a Wikimedia
user Group [5]
*In the news*
- Wikipedia is flooded with information — but it has a blind spot (SDG
11) [1]
*New WikiProjects*
- Wikidata:WikiProject COVID-19 (SDG 3) [9]
- (Arabic) ويكيبيديا:مشروع ويكي طب/فريق عمل كوفيد-19 (SDG 3) [10]
- (Czech) Wikipedie:WikiProjekt SARS-CoV-2 (SDG 3) [11]
- (English) Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19 (SDG 3) [12]
*Academic studies*
- Uneven Coverage of Natural Disasters in Wikipedia: the Case of Floods
(SDG 11) [2]
*Events*
- The COVID-19 pandemic halts all in-person events funded through the
Wikimedia Foundation (SDG 3) [6]
- Which lead to a renewed interest in remote events (SDG 17) [8]
*Information from the Wikimedia Foundation*
- COVID-19 (SDG 3) [20]
*The Sustainable Development Goals*
- The United Nations adopt changes to the Sustainable Development Goal
Indicators (SDG-all) [7]
*New Wikidata properties*
- GreatSchools ID (SDG 4) [4]
- food energy (SDG 1) [14]
- number of recoveries (SDG 3) [15]
- number of clinical tests (SDG 3) [16]
*New Wikidata example queries*
- Updated chart of the number of infections and deaths caused since the
outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, as reported by the World Health Organisation (SDG
3) [3]
- World map of hospitals (SDG 3) [13]
- Notable people with COVID-19 by number of sitelinks (SDG 3) [17]
- COVID-19 case statistics for India (SDG 3):
- State-level map [18]
- State-level line graph [19]
*Links*
- [1]
https://grist.org/justice/wikipedia-is-flooded-with-information-but-it-has-a-blind-spot/
- [2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.08810.pdf
- [3] https://w.wiki/J8S
- [4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7948
- [5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development
- [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/COVID-19_Notice
- [7]
http://sdg.iisd.org/news/un-statistical-commission-adopts-36-changes-to-sdg-indicators/
- [8]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiProject_remote_event_participation
- [9] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_COVID-19
- [10]
https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7:%D9%85%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B9_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A_%D8%B7%D8%A8/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%82_%D8%B9%D9%85%D9%84_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF-19
- [11] https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:WikiProjekt_SARS-CoV-2
- [12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_COVID-19
- [13] https://w.wiki/JnC
- [14] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7971
- [15] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8010
- [16] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8011
- [17] https://w.wiki/KqP
- [18] https://w.wiki/KzH
- [19] https://w.wiki/KtX
- [20] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/COVID-19
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