Wikimedia and Sustainability - Selecting topics for impact
Channel: Wikipedia Weekly
Date: 2021-08-17

This workshop will address how the United Nations's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can serve as a framework that helps maximize the social impact of Wikimedia activities. The two are already very much aligned, but there are benefits in making the alignment more explicit, e.g. by prioritizing the creation and curation of Wikimedia content related to the SDGs. In this workshop, we invite participants to look at some past, present or future Wikimedia activities and explore what could change if they were framed around the SDGs, using examples of activities undertaken under the umbrella of the Wikimedians for Sustainable Development initiative. The goal is to re-assess how the reframing of these activities might affect their social impact.