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Welcome

Hello, SIVAH.AKASH., and Welcome to Wikipedia!

Welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you enjoy the encyclopedia and want to stay. As a first step, you may wish to read the Introduction.

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SIVAH.AKASH., good luck, and have fun. <<< SOME GADGET GEEK >>> (talk) 22:20, 29 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - December 2022 Newsletter

This is our twentysecond newsletter, covering December 2022. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 5, 13, 15 and 16.

Meetings

January 15: Online user group meeting (SDG all)

Activities

Wiki Loves Plants (SDG 15)
365 climate edits (SDG 13)
Women in Climate Change 2022 (SDG 5 & 13)

News

Museology, Myosotis, and metadata oh my! Sharing sustainably in Wikipedia (SDG 15)

Resources

New Book: Open Mapping Towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDG all)

Videos

Margaret Donald - Wikidata, OpenRefine & Biota (SDG 15)

Featured content

English Wikipedia: List of alismatid families (SDG 15)

New Wikidata properties

has biological vector (SDG 15)
Bureau of Meteorology location ID (SDG 13)
CIViC gene ID (SDG 3)
Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate ID (SDG 16)
Tanzania Parliament member ID (SDG 16)
Lygaeoidea Species File ID (SDG 15)

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2023 Newsletter

This is our twentythird newsletter, covering January 2023. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 5, 10, 11, 13, 14 and 16.

Meetings

Upcoming: 19 February - User group meeting (SDG all)
Past: 15 January - User group meeting (SDG all)

Activities

Ongoing: Wiki Loves Plants (SDG 14)
Ongoing: 365 climate edits (SDG 13)
Upcoming: The 2023 Bug of the Year Edit-a-thon (SDG 14)
Past: Lexeme challenge Urology (SDG 3)
Past: Swedish Wikipedia weekly challenge - Frogs versus lizards (SDG 14)
Past: Three hundred episodes of Critter of the Week (SDG 14)
Past: Wikidata Queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and pandemic (SDG 3)
Past: Women in Climate Change 2022 (SDG 5 & 13)

News

Resources

a Life Sciences Knowledge Graph with a Data Lake (SDG 3)

Videos

Featured content

English Wikipedia: List of birds of Tuvalu (SDG 14)
English Wikipedia: List of World Heritage Sites in Laos (SDG 11)
English Wikipedia: List of World Heritage Sites in Bangladesh (SDG 11)

New Wikidata properties

NIP (SDG 16)
NSR doctor ID (SDG 3)
UniProt disease ID (SDG 3)
Strazha ID (SDG 16)
United States House of Representatives ID (SDG 16)

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - February 2023 Newsletter

This is our twentyfourth newsletter, covering February 2023. This issue has news related to SDGs 2, 3, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15 and 16.

Meetings

2023-03-05 User group meeting (SDG all)
Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting (SDG all)

Activities

Ongoing: 365 climate edits (SDG 13)
Ongoing: Suggest "Environmental sustainability and climate crisis" topics for Wikimania (SDG all)
Ongoing: Africa Environment WikiFocus (SDG 13)
Past: Edit for Climate Change: Wikipedia Editathon (SDG 13)
Past: WikiForHumanRights 2023 Campaign: Capacity Building Sessions on "Tools for Finding the Right Articles" and "Building Article List with Petscan" (SDG 10 & 13)
Past: WikiForHumanRights 2023 Campaign: Regional Office Hours for Africa and Maghreb Regions (SDG 10 & 13)

News

NCBI breakdown of common garden foods with photographs by Phytotheca (SDG 2)

Resources

3000 Arctic images (SDG 13)
SMART-Servier Medical Art upload (SDG 3)

Research

Open Source in Environmental Sustainability (SDG 13)

New Wikidata properties

Norwegian war prisoner detention camp ID (SDG 16)
Iowa legislator ID (SDG 16)
National Grid Balancing Mechanism unit ID (SDG 7)

Wikidata query examples

Map of disasters by type (SDG 11)

Featured articles

English Wikipedia: South Asian river dolphin (SDG 14)
English Wikipedia: List of World Heritage Sites in Sri Lanka (SDG 11)
English Wikipedia: List of lamiid families (SDG 15)

Featured images
Three horses (SDG 15)
Hunter baby chameleon (SDG 15)
Rice paper butterfly (SDG 15)
Lasiocampa quercus 4th instar caterpillar Keila (top view) (SDG 15)
Lasiocampa quercus 4th instar caterpillar Keila (side view).jpg (SDG 15)
Mockingbird on the North Lake Trail (SDG 15)
Striated Pardalote (SDG 15)
Wiesenvögelchen (SDG 15)
Herring gull (SDG 15)
Northern shoveler (SDG 15)

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - March 2023 Newsletter

This is our twentyfifth newsletter, covering March 2023. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 5, 10, 13, 15 and 16.

Meetings

Upcoming: User group meeting 2023-04-02 (SDG all)
Past: User group meeting 2023-03-05 (SDG all)

Activities

Ongoing: 365 climate edits (SDG 13)
Upcoming: WikiForHumanRights (SDG 10 & 13)
Upcoming: April 19 - LaGuardia Community College Earth Day Translatathon with Casa de las Américas NYC (SDG 13)
Upcoming: April 22 - Earth Day 2023 Edit-a-thon Environment of Brooklyn Focus with Sure We Can (SDG 13)
Upcoming: April 23 - Earth Day Wiknic NYC (SDG 13)
Past: Gender and culture related event to test image suggestions on Wikipedia (SDG 5)
Past: Feminism and Folklore 2023 (SDG 5)
Past: Art+Feminism edit-a-thon for Nigerian female artists (SDG 5)

News

Putting our energy into Wikipedia as climate action (SDG 13)
How Art+Feminism is using Wikipedia to promote equity in the art world (SDG 5)
Biodiversity Heritage Library and Wikidata (SDG 15)
Black history month and more (SDG 10)
Women Do News: Tackling the Gender Divide in Journalism Through Wikipedia (SDG 5)
Wiki Loves Earth 2023 is starting! (SDG 15)
The Quest to Close the Gender Gap on Wikipedia Continues; Five-Year Anniversary with Feminism & Folklore (SDG 5)
WikiGap Malaysia 2023: Empowering women in indigenous languages (SDG 5)
Wikipedia has a climatetech problem (SDG 13)

New Wikidata properties

NCI Drug Dictionary ID (SDG 3)
Malaysia Federal Legislation act ID (SDG 16)
Moscow University Herbarium ID (SDG 15)
Norwegian Petroleum Directorate field ID (SDG 13)

Featured content

English Wikipedia: List of Saxifragales families (SDG 15)
English Wikipedia: Red-throated wryneck (SDG 15)

Featured images
Ourapteryx yerburii ssp. specimens and male genitalia (SDG 15)
Pterophorus pentadactyla (SDG 15)
Wood duck drake (SDG 15)
Cardinal (SDG 15)
Bunten Kronwicke (Securigera varia) (SDG 15)
Sympetrum sanguineum (SDG 15)
Crocus tommasinianus (SDG 15)
Papaya - longitudinal section close-up view (SDG 15)
Aphantopus hyperantus (SDG 15)
Australian Zebra Finch (SDG 15)
Melospiza melodia (SDG 15)
Roadside hawk (Rupornis magnirostris griseocauda) eating speckled racer (Drymobius margaritiferus) (SDG 15)
Black iguana (Ctenosaura similis) (SDG 15)
Cerastis rubricosa caterpillar (side view) (SDG 15)
Cerastis rubricosa caterpillar (dorsal view) (SDG 15)
Frühlings-Knotenblume (Leucojum vernum) (SDG 15)
Ocellated turkey (Meleagris ocellata) male (SDG 15)
Geoffroy's spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi yucatanensis) (SDG 15)
Ophiopogon planiscapus (SDG 15)
Protaetic cuprea ignicollis (SDG 15)
Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus plexippus) (SDG 15)
Cepaea nemoralis (SDG 15)
Crepis biennis (SDG 15)
Keel-billed toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus sulfuratus) on foxtail palm (Wodyetia bifurcata) (SDG 15)
Trifolium spadiceum (SDG 15)

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - April 2023 Newsletter

This is our twenty-sixth newsletter, covering April 2023. This issue has news related to SDGs 2, 4, 5, 6, 11, 13, 14, 15 and 16.

Meetings

Upcoming: User group meeting 2023-05-07 (SDG all)
Past: User group meeting 2023-04-02 (SDG all)

Activities

Ongoing: 365 climate edits (SDG 13)
Ongoing: WikiForHumanRights 2023 International Writing Contest (SDG 13, 14, 6)
Ongoing: WikiForHumanRights 2023 local community events (SDG 13, 15, 14, 6)
Ongoing: WikiCampusTourNigeria Project (SDG 6, 13, 14, 15)
Upcoming (and past): Women, architecture and design (SDG 5)
Past: WikiGap Tirana 2023, Albania (SDG 5)
Past: BBC 100 women editathon (SDG 5)
Past: WikiGAP in Prishtina (SDG 5)
Past: 15 Days of French women writers (SDG 5)
Past: TSU USF Women's History Month Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (SDG 5)
Past: Crafting a Better Wikipedia: Women of Color in the Renwick Gallery (SDG 5)

News

TUSWUG S2E2: Women in Wiki (SDG 5)
Inaugural edition of the organizer lab awards – 6 community grants (SDG 5 & SDG 13)
Bolstering women’s voices and histories on Wikipedia (SDG 5)
A huge upload for biologists (SDG 15)
WikiForHumanRights 2023 Launch Webinar (SDG 13, 14, 6)
WikiForHumanRights 2023 and WMF Human Rights Team Online Safety Capacity Building for Organizers (SDG 13)
WikiForHummanRights 2023 and Let's Connect Capacity building on good practices for retention (SDG 13)
Living through a Triple Planetary Emergency: Capturing the Most Impactful Knowledge to Weather the Storm (SDG 10 & SDG 13)
Wikimedia Foundation Environmental Sustainability Report for 2022 (SDG 13)
Wikimedia Sverige sustainability report 2022 (in Swedish) (SDG 13)

Research

Hypotheses in urban ecology: building a common knowledge base (SDG 15)

New Wikidata properties

Featured content

English Wikipedia: List of afrosoricids (SDG 15)

Featured images
Ara macao cyanopterus (SDG 15)
Leptura quadrifasciata (SDG 15)
Bursa lamarckii (SDG 15)
Ara macao cyanopterus (SDG 15)
Chlamydera guttata (SDG 15)
Sitta carolinensis (SDG 15)
Pumpkin field (SDG 2)
Diglossa baritula & Canna indica (SDG 15)
Acer platanoides (SDG 15)
Amazilia rutila (SDG 15)
Passiflora edulis (SDG 15)
Melanerpes aurifrons (SDG 15)
Argiope versicolor (SDG 15)
Allium ursinum (SDG 15)
Platanus x hispanica (SDG 15)
Thymelicus lineola (SDG 15)
Acer palmatum (SDG 15) [38]
Falco tinnunculus (SDG 15) [39]
Zalophus californianus (SDG 15) [40]
Acer pseudoplatanus (SDG 15)
Tamarindus indica (SDG 15)
Sciurus carolinensis (SDG 15) [43]
Tyrannus savana monachus (SDG 15)
Rapa incurva (SDG 15)
Trigona sp. (SDG 15)

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - December 2023 Newsletter

This is our twenty-seventh newsletter, a sort of year-in-review for 2023.

Dear Wikimedians for Sustainable Development,

As we bid farewell to 2023, we reflect on a year that has been an uneven year for our user group. While the journey has been marked by some truly inspiring events, most of our efforts have been largely uncoordinated and the user group hasn't been the support it could have been. Yet, there's a glimmer of hope and a world of potential for 2024.

Highlights of 2023:

Newsletters Galore: We kicked off the year with zeal, sharing updates and inspiration through four newsletters. The number of things happening in the movement is astounding, but we need to rethink the format of the newsletter going into the next year.

Growing Strong: The Wikimedians for Sustainable Development family welcomed 33 new members in 2023. Your passion and dedication continue to inspire us, and we look forward to nurturing this community spirit in the year ahead.

Wikimania Talks: Our voices echoed far and wide at Wikimania, where several members of our community took the virtual stage to share insights and ideas about everything from Wikipedians-in-Residence's to open data. Your contributions showcased our commitment to sustainable development on a global scale.

Content Creation Magic: Throughout the year, our extended community demonstrated incredible dedication to expanding the knowledge base on Wikipedia. Countless hours were spent creating and curating content that aligns with our mission, contributing to a more sustainable digital ecosystem.

Campaigning hard: We saw a large variety of campaigns, from writing challenges to editathons. The willingness to experiment with new formats and partners, as well as learning from past efforts, shows great promise for the future.

Acknowledging Challenges:

While we celebrate these achievements, we acknowledge that 2023 presented its fair share of challenges. A lack of global coordination reminded us that the road to sustainable development is not always linear. However, it is precisely these challenges that fuel our determination to work together more cohesively in the coming year and proof that the user group is needed.

Hopeful Anticipation for 2024:

As we turn the page to 2024, let's carry forward the lessons learned and the successes celebrated. We are optimistic that, with renewed energy and a collective commitment, we will overcome obstacles and create an even more impactful and connected Wikimedians for Sustainable Development community.

Here's to a year of collaboration, growth, and making a lasting impact on the world through our shared passion for sustainability. Together, we can turn challenges into opportunities and pave the way for a brighter future.

Wishing you all a joyous holiday season and a Happy New Year!

Warm regards, User:Ainali, User:Daniel Mietchen

PS. We have started writing our yearly report, please add your activities to it.

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2024 Newsletter

This is our twenty-eighth newsletter.

User group news

We have submitted our 2023 annual report.
Upcoming meeting: on 9 February, we'll have a call about roles and responsibilities in the user group. This is an attempt to make more opportunities to engage more of the user groups members in its activities. If you want to help out in some way, but don't know how, this is a meeting for you to get help creating that opportunity. If you know how you would like to help, but don't know how to get started, this is also the meeting for you.

Other news

New Wikiproject for Climate Change on Basque Wikipedia: Wikiproiektu Klima Aldaketa
Climate Justice, Digital Rights and Indigenous Voices international Wikimedia event in Huaraz, Peru 2024: Engagement Survey (closes 2 Feb)

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - February 2024 Newsletter

This is our twenty-ninth newsletter.

User group news

On 9 February, we had a user group meeting on roles and responsibilities (minutes)
Upcoming user group meeting 17 March

Other news

Wiki Loves Earth: Reminder that if you want to organize a local competition, it is time to get started. (SDG 15 and 14)
Wiki for Human Rights: Reminder that if you would like to organize a local event, there is support available. (SDG 10)
Study: Using Wikipedia Pageview Data to Investigate Public Interest in Climate Change at a Global Scale (SDG 13)

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - April 2024 Newsletter

This is our thirtieth newsletter covering March and April 2024. This issue has news related to SDGs 13, 14 and 15.

User group news

* Upcoming user group meeting 19 May

Other news

Wikipedia Signpost highlighted five papers about climate change editing. (SDG 13)
On Wikidata, a model for documenting green house gas emissions has been created. (SDG 13)
An update from the Wikipedian in Residence at the Environment Protection Authority in Victoria, Australia.
WikiAcción Perú organized a training session: "Climate Change Actions and Wikimedia Movement" (SDG 13)
WikiForHumanRights organized a session: "Adding Sustainability Perspectives to Wikivoyage"

Events

Wiki Loves Earth, the international photo contest of protected nature, starts in May. (SDG 14 & 15)
Wiki For Climate Change 2024 - Maghreb region starts in May. (SDG 13)

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - May 2024 Newsletter

This is our thirtyfirst newsletter, covering May 2024. This issue has news related to SDGs 13, 14 and 15.

User group news

Upcoming: User group meeting, 16 June
Mini report from the Wikimedia Summit 2024
User group representative interviewed by Wikipediapodden at Wikimedia Summit (commons)
Minutes from user group meeting in May

Other news

Reflecting _Women For Sustainability Africa Arts + Feminism #Her Voice Campaign 2023
Macedonia report: Climate change and GLAM (SDG 13)
Biodiversity Heritage Library April monthly highlights (SDG 14 & 15)
WikiProject Biodiversity featured in Nature Africa (SDG 14 & 15)
Wikimedia UK releases a video about their climate focus (SDG 13)

Events

Wiki Loves Earth, the international photo contest of protected nature, continues in some countries. (SDG 14 & 15)

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - June 2024 Newsletter

This is our thirtysecond newsletter, covering June 2024. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 13, 14, 15 and 16.

User group news

User group vote on the adoption of the Movement Charter (closes 7 July 23.59 UTC)
Upcoming user group meeting 21 July
User group meeting held in June - minutes
The group was featured in the latest WikiAfrica Hour: #36: Does the Wikimedia movement contribute to the SDGs?

Other news

Stories from the anti-disinformation repository: How WikiProject COVID-19 and other Wikimedia initiatives counter health disinformation (SDG 3)
Environment Centre Northern Territory Wikipedian in Residence (SDG 15)
With AI can we increase transparency of companies' carbon footprints (in Swedish). Op-ed that mentions that the greenhouse gas emissions of the top 150 companies on the Stockholm stock exchange has been uploaded to Wikidata. The model is documented on WikiProject Climate Change on Wikidata. (SDG 13)
Another Year in Review: Where is Wikimedia in the Climate Crisis? Seeing the impact of Wikimedia Projects (SDG 13)
46 scholars, self-advocates bring knowledge to Wikipedia’s disability healthcare content (SDG 3)
Wikimedia Sverige publishes their 2023 climate impact report (in Swedish) (SDG 13)
WikiProject Govdirectory has started weekly collaboration on countries (SDG 16)

Events

Wikimedia chapters and groups organise the first Sharks and Rays Wikimarathon (29 June, but edits in the weeks after are welcome) (SDG 14)

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - July 2024 Newsletter

This is our thirty third newsletter, covering July 2024. This issue has news related to SDGs 5, 10, 13, and 16.

User group news

User group meeting held in July, minutes
Next user group meeting will be 18 August

Other news

Climate change editahon and workshop in Macedonia (SDG 13)
WikiForHumanRights in Nigeria 2024 Campaign Virtual Launch (SDG 10&16)
What we Learned from Wiki Women In Red @8 Campaign 2023 Women for Sustainability Africa (SDG 5)
Ghanaian Wikipedians set to educate students on Open Climate (SDG 13)
Using Wikipedia as a Tool for Climate Action (SDG 13)

Events

5th August, m:Event:Wiki-Green_Conference_2024 Wiki-Green Conference (SDG 13)
7-10 August, Wikimania - All SDG related sessions
7-9 November, Justicia climática, voces indígenas y plataformas Wikimedia (SDG 13)

Participate

Share an example of a successful WikiProject or topical collaboration in this on-wiki survey

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - August 2024 Newsletter

This is our thirty fourth newsletter. This issue has news related to SDGs 5, 11, 15, and 16.

User group news

Next user group meeting, 15 September, will be focused on starting to develop a strategy for the group. If you cannot attend, you can leave your input on the ideas page.
User group meeting held in August (minutes)