This pages provides detailed information on how to carry out tasks to volunteer in the Online edit-a-thon for SDGs in September 2020.
You can find SDG content-related tasks here on the talk page of this event. For example, we have listed some recent reports about the SDGs which could be utilized to enrich Wikipedia articles.
The table below shows you what you can do to help to improve Wikipedia articles. It might look a bit scary but you can easily select just one, two or more tasks that are suitable for your abilities and background by clicking on the sorting arrows at the top of the table.
# | Guiding question / tasks for each article (a list of articles to work on is provided below). Priority are the SDG articles. | Instructions and tips on how to carry out this task | Good example where this has been done | How difficult is this to do? | Suitable for which type of volunteer? | Could this lead to discussions or controversies with other Wikipedians? | Time required (per article)? | Suitable for what type of Wikipedian? |
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1 | Are internal links (wikilinks) from content articles or from biographies to the right SDG articles already in place or still need to be added?
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Easy | Anyone | Unlikely | 20 minutes | Novice |
2 | Does the article use internal links or wikilinks (from one Wikipedia article to another) in the correct manner?
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All "featured articles" should do this perfectly. A featured article is the best quality article within Wikipedia. See examples of featured articles here: Wikipedia:Featured articles | Easy | Anyone | Unlikely | 30 minutes | Novice |
3 | Is the lead of the article a good summary of the article?
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What Wikipedia calls the "Lead" is the piece of text that appears first in the article, just before the table of contents. We want those leads to be the highest quality possible.
The lead should:
Further links:
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An example of a good lead in terms of length is the one for pit latrine. | Easy | Someone with English writing skills | Perhaps | 30 minutes | Novice |
4 | Does the article's readability need improvement?
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Simple edits you can do will improve the readability:
You can check the impact of your work by using this tool (webfx) or this tool (online utility) which gives you various readability scores for either a whole website or just a block of text. Paste in the web address of the revised article to get the new readability score. The Hemingway App is also a useful tool for improving readability. Is the current readability score (Flesch Kincaid Reading Ease) OK? Rule of thumb: anything over >45 is fairly OK. Further tips:
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All "featured articles" should do this perfectly. A featured article is the best quality article within Wikipedia. See examples of featured articles here: Wikipedia:Featured articles | Easy | Someone with English writing skills | Perhaps | 60-120 minutes | Novice |
5 | Are the articles's section headings following the standard format and ordering?
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See SDG 6 as an example. | Easy | Anyone | Perhaps | 30 minutes | Novice |
6 | Does the article's table of content have a level limit (it should)?
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See SDG as an example (view it in source editor) | Easy | Anyone | Perhaps | 2 minutes | Novice |
7 | Do the sub-articles link back to the main article?
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All "featured articles" should do this perfectly. A featured article is the best quality article within Wikipedia. See examples of featured articles here: Wikipedia:Featured articles | Easy | Anyone | Unlikely | 20 minutes | Novice |
8 | Do any redirects need to be created for similar terms? |
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See the page where SDG6 is redirected to Sustainable Development Goal 6:https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SDG6&redirect=no | Easy | Someone who knows a bit about the topic | Unlikely | 5 minutes | Novice |
9 | Does the article need more content about developing countries in particular?
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In the article on "wastewater treatment" I added a new section on "Global situation", see edit history here. | Medium | Subject matter expert | Perhaps | 20-120 minutes | Novice |
10 | Does the article need more/better images? Are videos available?
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All "featured articles" should do this perfectly. A featured article is the best quality article within Wikipedia. See examples of featured articles here: Wikipedia:Featured articles | Medium | Someone who knows a bit about the topic | Unlikely | 10 minutes per image | Experienced Wikipedian |
11 | Does the article need more content to become more comprehensive?
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All "featured articles" should do this perfectly. A featured article is the best quality article within Wikipedia. See examples of featured articles here: Wikipedia:Featured articles | Difficult | Subject matter expert | Likely | 60-120 minutes | Experienced Wikipedian |
12 | Does the article need more or more recent references?
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All "featured articles" should do this perfectly. A featured article is the best quality article within Wikipedia. See examples of featured articles here: Wikipedia:Featured articles | Difficult | Subject matter expert | Unlikely | 30-120 minutes | Experienced Wikipedian |
13 | If the article is about SDGs, does it already include the maps from SDG Tracker / Our World in Data to show data about the indicators?
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See SDG 6 as an example. | Medium | Someone who knows a bit about the topic | Unlikely | 10 minutes per map added | Experienced Wikipedian |
14 | Is the article's "See also" list OK, i.e. not too long?
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All "featured articles" should do this perfectly. A featured article is the best quality article within Wikipedia. See examples of featured articles here: Wikipedia:Featured articles | Easy | Anyone | Unlikely | 5 minutes | Novice |
15 | Is the article's external links list the right length?
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All "featured articles" should do this perfectly. A featured article is the best quality article within Wikipedia. See examples of featured articles here: Wikipedia:Featured articles | Easy | Anyone | Unlikely | 5 minutes | Novice |
16 | Should excessive details be moved to existing sub-articles? Is the article too long?
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All "featured articles" should do this perfectly. A featured article is the best quality article within Wikipedia. See examples of featured articles here: Wikipedia:Featured articles | Medium | Subject matter expert | Likely | 30-60 minutes | Experienced Wikipedian |
17 | Should the article be merged with another article? |
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Some time ago, User:EMsmile merged the existing article "Water supply and women in developing countries" into WASH. She discussed this with others here before doing the merger. The same user also merged "menstrual taboos" into "culture and menstruation" with (discussion was here). | Difficult | Subject matter expert | Likely | 60 minutes to several hours | Experienced Wikipedian |
18 | Is there an SDG article in another language that has more content than the English-language version? |
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The German article on SDGs has some additional content which the English article does not have yet. | Medium | Subject matter expert | Likely | 30 minutes to several hours | Experienced Wikipedian |
Proposed standard section headings for the 17 SDG articles are shown below:
More information is available in the "how to" table below. Many of the SDG articles are now already in reasonable shape (and can serve as examples), for example: SDG 6 and SDG 5.
Section heading | Explanation | Example where this has been done well (although none of the examples are perfect yet) |
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The lead | The lead (see WP:LEAD) should provide a three to four paragraph summary or overview in basic language. The lead should contain only one image (probably the logo of that particular SDG). | Pit latrine |
Background
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Add a short paragraph about SDGs in general; this could be the same for all.
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SDG 14 (but could be better) |
Targets and indicators | This should be more of a discussion/explanation than mere lists; the targets and indicators don't all need to be listed here but it should include the areas the indicators cover; should also include some maps from SDG tracker. It is best to use source editor to add a map. You can find all maps in Wikimedia Commons. Scroll up to the explanation for Task 13 to see how it's done. The text string then looks like this for example: [[File:Women who experienced violence by an intimate partner, OWID.svg|thumb|upright=1.6|World map for Indicator 5.2.1: Share of women, older than 14 years, who experienced physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner in the last year.<ref name="SDGtracker5">Ritchie, Roser, Mispy, Ortiz-Ospina (2018) [https://sdg-tracker.org/gender-equality "Measuring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals." (SDG 5)] ''SDG-Tracker.org, website''</ref>]] This produces the image as shown at the top right of this table. | SDG 6,SDG |
Overall progress and monitoring | This could include status updates for different years. We think the progress for individual indicators should be included in the indicator section. This section could explain which organisations are doing the monitoring for this SDG and what the overall progress has been. | SDG 14 (but could be better) |
Links with other SDGs and other issues | Explain how this SDG interlinks with other SDGs or issues | SDG 16 |
Organizations or Activities of organizations | Provide information which organizations are dedicated to achieving this SDG in particular and the activities they carry out. | SDG 16 |
Reception (or controversies) | E.g. if there have been any discussions about missing indicators for this SDG, or the SDG is too difficult to achieve, does not have the right indicators, is superfluous etc (note this section was previously called "criticisms" but Wikipedia policy does not support this, see WP:CRIT) | SDG |
Society and culture (might include regulations if applicable)
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Explain what actions are being taken by civil society for this SDG. Can also list information for specific countries for this particular SDG here. | SDG 14 (but could be better) |
See also | Only include a "see also" list if the terms are not already mentioned in the article itself.
Guidance from Wikipedia: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout#"See also" section |
SDG 6 |
References | Preference is given to reputable sources, literature reviews; not blogs or discussion forums
Guidance from Wikipedia: Wikipedia:Reliable sources |
SDG 6 |
External links | This can be a short list and should only link to very important websites
Guidance from Wikipedia: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout#External links |
SDG 6 |
Categories | Each SDG article should be included in the category "Sustainable Development Goals" and in the category "Sustainable development" by adding this at the very end of the article while in "edit source" mode (additional categories might also be appropriate):
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SDG 6 |
The SDG-related Wikipedia articles that require improvement are listed below. The terms were selected by reviewing the targets and indicators of the goals (some of the terms appear for several SDGs), see List of SDG targets and indicators. The terms that are shown in red don't have a Wikipedia article yet.
To sort the list by view rates, click on the arrows in the table headers. The view rate figures are the average number of views each day, for several years up to July 2020.
Goal | Article | Daily view rates |
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Overarching, applies to all SDGs
SDG expert / Wikipedian to support you: User:EMsmile, Brisbane |
Sustainable development goals | 2810 |
Least developed countries | 86 | |
Developing countries (consider merger or stream lining with Global South and North-South divide) | 2810 | |
Small Island Developing States | 136 | |
Global Goals Week (article recently created in August 2020) | 2 | |
United Nations General Assembly | 791 | |
United Nations | 6665 | |
United Nations Foundation | 65 | |
People / SDG leaders /Activist and movement pages - Maybe | ||
Country pages updated with SDG info to show progress/action taken at a national level - Maybe |
Country articles to improve further:
Goal number | Article | Daily view rates
(assessed July 2020) |
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Goal 1: No Poverty
SDG expert / Wikipedian to support you: User: Doti Nicolasia, Nairobi |
SDG 1 | New article, created in September 2020 |
Development aid / Development cooperation | 231 | |
disaster risk reduction | 192 | |
Extreme poverty | 370 | |
Natural disaster | 3408 | |
Poverty | 2545 | |
Poverty threshold | 667 | |
social protection | 98 | |
Universal basic services | 40 |
Goal number | Article | Daily view rates
(assessed July 2020) |
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Goal 2: Zero Hunger
SDG expert / Wikipedian to support you: User:Brunapedia, Beirut |
SDG 2 | New article, created in September 2020 |
Agricultural subsidy | 322 | |
Agricultural productivity | 211 | |
Anaemia | 124 | |
Food security | 1014 | |
Food prices | 20 | |
Genetic diversity | 392 | |
Hunger | 355 | |
Infrastructure | 1165 | |
Malnutrition / Undernourishment | 1460 | |
Subsistence agriculture | 516 | |
Stunted growth / Stunting | 231 | |
Sustainable agriculture | 518 | |
World Food Programme | 373 |
Goal number | Article | Daily view rates
(assessed July 2020) |
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Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being for People
SDG expert / Wikipedian to support you: User: Doti Nicolasia, Nairobi |
SDG 3 | New article, created in September 2020 |
Antimicrobial resistance | 635 | |
Child mortality | 266 | |
Infection / Communicable diseases | 1,523 | |
Family planning | 817 | |
Global health | 200 | |
Health worker | 447 | |
Hepatitis | 2,217 | |
HIV/AIDS | 5,837 | |
Infant mortality | 776 | |
Malaria | 4,310 | |
Maternal death / Maternal mortality | 766 | |
Mortality rate | 1370 | |
Neglected tropical diseases | 255 | |
One Health | 65 | |
Perinatal mortality | 182 | |
Public health | 1102 | |
Road traffic safety | 678 | |
Reproductive health | 427 | |
Substance abuse | 1520 | |
Tuberculosis | 8,648 | |
Universal health care | 767 | |
Water-borne diseases | 878 |
Goal number | Article | Daily view rates
(assessed July 2020) |
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Goal 4: Quality Education
SDG expert / Wikipedian to support you: User: Doti Nicolasia, Nairobi |
SDG 4 | New article, created in September 2020 |
Child protection | 250 | |
Early childhood education | 728 | |
Education | 7645 | |
Educational equity | 219 | |
Educational inequality | 272 | |
Inclusion (education) | 526 | |
Indigenous peoples | 1569 | |
Literacy | 1013 | |
Nonformal learning | 229 | |
Numeracy | 130 | |
School | 1797 | |
Teacher | 1812 | |
Teacher education / teacher training | 373 | |
Vocational education | 976 | |
Vulnerable adult | 105 |
Goal number | Article | Daily view rates
(assessed July 2020) |
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Goal 5: Gender Equality
SDG expert / Wikipedian to support you: |
SDG 5 | New article, created in September 2020 |
Discrimination | 1455 | |
Child marriage / early marriage | 1002 | |
Enabling | 160 | |
Enabling technology | 37 | |
Empowerment | 613 | |
Equal opportunity | 340 | |
Female genital mutilation | 4940 | |
Forced marriage | 361 | |
Gender | 3009 | |
Gender equality | 1496 | |
Gender inequality | 984 | |
Human trafficking | 2000 | |
Land tenure / land ownership | 240 | |
Public service | 666 | |
Reproductive health | 427 | |
Unpaid work | 61 | |
Violence against women | 1328 |
Goal number | Article | Daily view rates
(assessed July 2020) |
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Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation
SDG expert / Wikipedian to support you: |
SDG 6 | 50 |
Drinking water | 969 | |
Ecosystems | 2897 | |
Hand washing | 543 | |
Hygiene | 1236 | |
Improved sanitation | 60 | |
Improved water source | 49 | |
Open defecation | 576 | |
Rainwater harvesting | 1593 | |
Reclaimed water | 308 | |
Sanitation | 937 | |
Wastewater treatment | 704 | |
WASH | 192 | |
Water efficiency | 66 | |
Water pollution | 4908 | |
Water quality | 545 | |
Water scarcity / water stress | 1061 | |
Water supply | 430 | |
Integrated water resources management | 65 |
Goal number | Article | Daily view rates
(assessed July 2020) |
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Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
SDG expert / Wikipedian to support you: |
SDG 7 | New article, created August 2020 |
Biofuels / Clean fuels | 1221 | |
Clean energy research | ||
Efficient energy use / energy efficiency | 549 | |
Electrification / access to electricity | 188 | |
Energy mix | 36 | |
Energy system / energy services | 75 | |
Energy intensity | 87 | |
Modern energy | ||
Primary energy | 185 | |
Renewable energy | 1400 | |
Sustainable energy / Clean energy | 2818 |
Goal number | Article | Daily view rates
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Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
SDG expert / Wikipedian to support you: |
SDG 8 | New article, created in September 2020 |
Aid for Trade | New article (created in September 2020) | |
Child labor | 2756 | |
Decent work | 54 | |
Domestic material consumption | 3 | |
Ecological footprint (instead of material footprint) | 503 | |
Economic growth (instead of sustainable economic growth) | 1236 | |
Employment | 956 | |
Financial services | 1314 | |
Gross domestic product | 6770 | |
Global Jobs Pact | ||
Human trafficking | 2000 | |
Informal economy / Informal employment | 400 | |
International Labor Organization | 1014 | |
Labor rights | 245 | |
Landlocked country | 1543 | |
least developed countries | 86 | |
Migrant worker | 324 | |
Occupational injury | 61 | |
Real gross domestic product | 203 | |
Resource efficiency | 43 | |
Slavery in the 21st century / modern slavery | 383 | |
Sustainable development / Sustainable economic growth | 2700 | |
Sustainable tourism | 356 | |
Unfree labor / forced labor | 150 | |
Unemployment | 1700 | |
Youth unemployment | 243 |
Goal number | Article | Daily view rates
(assessed July 2020) |
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Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
SDG expert / Wikipedian to support you: |
SDG 9 | New article, created in September 2020 |
Credit / affordable credit? | 282 | |
Developing country | 2163 | |
Employment (look for manufacturing employment) | 956 | |
Environmentally friendly / environmentally sound technologies | 432 | |
Financial services | 1314 | |
Green infrastructure / sustainable infrastructure | 92 | |
Industrialisation | 723 | |
Industrial diversification | ||
Information and communications technology (ICT) / Access to ICT | 2318 | |
Infrastructure | 1165 | |
Internet access | 1095 | |
Landlocked country | 1543 | |
Official development assistance | 252 | |
Research / researcher | 2257 | |
Research and development / R&D worker | 974 | |
Resilient infrastructure | ||
Right to internet access | 193 | |
Road transport (look for all-season road) | 356 | |
Small business / small scale industry | 827 | |
Small Island Developing States | 136 | |
Sustainable industries | 28 | |
Sustainable urban infrastructure | 30 |
Goal number | Article | Daily view rates
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Goal 10: Reducing Inequalities
SDG expert / Wikipedian to support you: |
SDG 10 | New article, created in September 2020 |
Economic inequality | 877 | |
Equal opportunity | 340 | |
Financial institution / global financial institution | 555 | |
Financial market | 965 | |
Financial soundness indicator | ||
Foreign direct investment | 1403 | |
Gross domestic product / labour share of GDP | 6770 | |
Global financial system / global financial markets | 241 | |
Human migration / look for migration policy | 936 | |
Human rights | 3342 | |
Income / income growth | 340 | |
Income inequality metrics | 148 | |
International human rights law | 305 | |
International Monetary Fund | 4,229 | |
International organization | 778 | |
Landlocked country | 1543 | |
Migrant worker | 324 | |
Anti-discrimination law / Non-discriminatory laws | 212 | |
Official development assistance | 252 | |
Refugee | 1049 | |
Remittance / migrant remittance | 586 | |
Social exclusion / social inclusion | 548 | |
Social protection / social protection policy | 98 | |
Tariff / look for zero-tarrif and tariff lines | 1052 | |
World Bank | 3,567 | |
World Trade Organization | 3325 |
Goal number | Article | Daily view rates
(assessed July 2020) |
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Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
SDG expert / Wikipedian to support you: |
SDG 12 | New article, created in September 2020 |
Developed country | 2396 | |
Energy subsidies / Fossil-fuel subsidies | 21 | |
Food waste | 488 | |
Government procurement / public procurement | 222 | |
Hazardous waste | 431 | |
Natural resources | 2044 | |
Post-harvest losses (grains) | 41 | |
Post-harvest losses (vegetables) | 73 | |
Recycling | 1880 | |
Renewable energy | 2818 | |
Resource recovery | 80 | |
Sustainable products | 83 | |
Sustainability reporting | 111 | |
Sustainable tourism | 356 | |
Sustainable consumption | 61 | |
Education for sustainable development | 101 | |
Global citizenship education | 44 |
If you have an in-depth interest in climate change, take a look at the "To-dos" compiled by members of the WikiProject Climate Change here.
Goal number | Article | Daily view rates
(assessed July 2020) |
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Goal 13: Climate Action
SDG expert / Wikipedian to support you: User:RosieTMM2030, Chicago |
SDG 13 | New article, created in September 2020 |
Climate change adaptation | 147 | |
Climate change mitigation | 430 | |
Effects of global warming / Impacts of climate change | 2118 | |
Education for sustainable development | 101 | |
Global citizenship education | 44 | |
Climate change / global warming | 9457 | |
Green Climate Fund | 258 | |
Greenhouse gas / greenhouse gas emissions | 3471 | |
Natural disaster | 3407 | |
Sustainable energy / Clean energy | 1400 | |
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change | 884 |
Goal number | Article | Daily view rates
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Goal 14: Life Below Water
SDG expert / Wikipedian to support you: User:Brunapedia, Beirut |
SDG 14 | 42 |
Artisanal fishing / small-scale fisheries | 45 | |
Eutrophication / coastal eutrophication | 1144 | |
Fish stock | 46 | |
Fisheries subsidy | 5 | |
Least developed countries | 86 | |
Marine conservation / marine resources | 118 | |
Marine pollution | 537 | |
Marine technology | 25 | |
Microplastics | 372 | |
Overfishing | 337 | |
Ocean acidification | 586 | |
Sea surface temperature / Ocean temperatures | 253 | |
Sustainable fishery | 87 | |
Sustainable tourism | 356 | |
Small Island Developing States | 136 | |
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea | 847 |
Goal number | Article | Daily view rates
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Goal 15: Life on Land
SDG expert / Wikipedian to support you: User:Brunapedia, Beirut |
SDG 15 | 30 |
Biodiversity loss | 172 | |
Desertification | 780 | |
Ecosystems | 2897 | |
Ecosystem services | 624 | |
Invasive species | 1011 | |
Land degradation | 464 | |
Poaching | 724 | |
Reforestation | 304 | |
Sustainable forest management | 170 | |
Terrestrial ecosystems | 225 | |
Wildlife smuggling / trafficking of wildlife | 61 | |
Wildlife trade | 105 |
Goal number | Article | Daily view rates
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Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
SDG expert / Wikipedian to support you: User:RosieTMM2030, Chicago |
SDG 16 | 35 |
Arms trafficking / arms trading | 325 | |
Bribery | 596 | |
Corruption | 1741 | |
Domestic violence | 2188 | |
Freedom of information laws by country / public access to information | 172 | |
Fundamental freedoms / fundamental rights | 440 | |
Global governance | 302 | |
Human rights | 3342 | |
Human trafficking | 2000 | |
Illicit financial flows | 24 | |
Inclusive democracy | 45 | |
Justice | 1038 | |
Legal identity / legal person | 290 | |
Anti-discrimination laws / Non-discriminatory laws | 212 | |
Open government | 114 | |
Organized crime | 1160 | |
Public access | 172 | |
Public services | 665 | |
Rule of law | 1595 | |
Social exclusion / social inclusion | 548 | |
Violence against children (redirects to domestic violence) | ||
Violence against women | 1328 | |
Violence | 921 |
Goal number | Article | Daily view rates
(assessed July 2020) |
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Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals
SDG expert / Wikipedian to support you: User:RosieTMM2030, Chicago |
SDG 17 | 25 |
Birth registration / certificate | 552 | |
Capacity building | 405 | |
Debt | 449 | |
Debt sustainability | ||
Debt-to-GDP ratio | 655 | |
Developing country | 2163 | |
Development aid (look for development assistance commitments) | 231 | |
Environmentally friendly | 432 | |
Export | 517 | |
Foreign direct investment | 1403 | |
Government debt | 665 | |
Least developed countries | 86 | |
Macroeconomics | 1334 | |
Policy Coherence for Development | 7 | |
Poverty reduction | 431 | |
Public-private partnership | 872 | |
Statistical plans ? | ||
Sustainable development | 2700 |
The Talk tab is located at the top left of any Wikipedia article. It takes you to the page where people talk about the article. How to use the talk pages:
The "Edit" or "Edit source" tabs at the top take you to the page where you can make changes to the article. There you can:
The "save" button has recently been renamed to "publish changes" and is located at the top right.
Take a look at short introduction videos (created by EMsmile and other Sanitation Wikipedia volunteers in 2017): Youtube Playlist. The three videos include:
More videos created by EMsmile explaining various editing tasks in Wikipedia are available in this playlist.
What Wikipedia calls the "Lead" appears first - just before the table of contents and the first section of every article. We want those leads to be the highest quality possible.
The lead should:
More information about the lead is here. An example of a good lead in terms of length is the one for pit latrine.
Simple edits you can do will improve the readability:
You can check the impact of your work by using this tool (webfx) or this tool (online utility) which gives you various readability scores for either a whole website or just a block of text. Paste in the web address of the revised article to get the new readability score. The Hemingway App is also a useful tool for improving readability. Do you want more tips on improving readability? See here.
Active Wikipedians have set up a To-Do list for Climate Change topics here. Equivalent to-do's exist on a range of SDG-related topics.
Want to ask a question? You have several options: