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"Wiki loves SDGs Campus Tour" - physical pieces of training and virtual follow-up on SDG topics

The Wiki Loves SDGs Campus Tour aims to spread awareness of the Sustainable development goals, prioritising training new editors and improving articles related to the global goals. The events will take place in three Nigerian academic institutions Lasu, Kwasu and Unilag.

The campaign is part of a larger initiative called "Nigerian Wikimedians for Sustainable Development " which is backed by Wikimedians for Sustainable Development. More details can be here at the meta page or reach out to the project lead, Prithee P (talk)


About

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This is a list of objectives we hope to achieve

  1. Improve flagged Wikipedia articles related to the SDGs
  2. Add citations to articles lacking citations
  3. Improve stub articles related to SDGs
  4. Update articles

Events

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Physical occasion

  1. Kwasu - 14 and 15, June 2022
  2. Lasu - 17 and 18, June 2022
  3. Unilag - 1 and 2, July 2022

Virtual follow up

  1. Kwasu - 9 July 2022
  2. Lasu - 14 July 2022
  3. Unilag - 14 July 2022

Check out the meta page here

Tasks

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The table below only shows a prioritised selection. This is just meant to make it easier to decide what to focus on. It does not mean that the other Wikipedia articles are "out of bounds".

Table 1: Proposed tasks for Wikipedia articles
# Task (action) Details, steps and tips Suitable for which type of volunteer
1 Adding reliable citations to articles All Wikipedia articles need citations (references to published work) -- every fact and piece of information should have a reliable source. This means that finding and adding citations is an important task. For climate change-related articles, you can start by reading WikiProject Climate Change’s guide to reliable sources. You can find citations for assertions not referenced, or delete unsupported assertions.

Steps:

  • "citation needed" flagged articles - For such articles, sometimes the content/text might be accurate however if there aren't enough references to back up the assertions being made, the article needs your help.
  • Add citations that will support assertions made.
  • You can delete text that cannot be backed up from credible sources -- that's part of the job.
  • Search the literature to see if there's more current information available than is currently cited in the articles. Preference is given to reputable sources, and literature reviews; Newspaper articles or blog posts are not ideal but can be OK. Posts from discussion forums are not allowed

Tips:

  • Click this link and it will take you to a page where Wikipedia articles lack citations have complied.
  • Click "I've got this" and you will be taken to the Wikipedia page.
  • Find citation for the text
  • You will find the "citation needed" flag [citation needed]. Click and add the reference you found. Publish it.
  • Congratulations on adding a citation.
Novice editor. If you don't know how to add a citation, check these out.
  • Tutorial videos showing how references are available in this Youtube Playlist.
  • Adding references (or citations) is also explained here.
2 Unflagging Wikipedia articles "Flagged articles" are Wikipedia articles that are marked and need to be improved to meet Wikipedia's standards. You can learn when to remove a flag from an article here. If you want to know what a "perfect" Wikipedia article should look like, take a look at Wikipedia's featured articles. A featured article is the best quality article on Wikipedia. The Climate change article is a featured article (there is still room for improvement though!). See further examples here: Wikipedia:Featured articles.

Steps: Try to correct the issues identified on the top page of the article. Once done, remove the flag and publish.

Tips:

  • To remove using If you are editing using VisualEditor: Click on the template (tag), which will then turn blue. Press the "Delete" or backspace key on your keyboard.
  • Leave a descriptive edit summary, e.g., "Removed [insert the name of template] because I have fixed the issue;"
  • Click Publish changes.
Novice editor with English writing skills and a good understanding of Wikipedia’s style and rules
3 Create a new article These are some articles you can create
  1. Youth unemployment in Nigeria
  2. Water resources management in Nigeria,
  3. Water resources management in Kenya,


Steps:


Tips:

  • Try to see how other similar articles were written before creating a new one
  • Also make sure the article is important enough to be on Wkipedia
experienced editor

Articles to work on

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The full list of SDG-related Wikipedia articles that require improvement, updating or correction.

  1. Suicide in Nigeria needs more content
  2. Corrective rape add subsection on Nigeria
  3. Ecocide add content on Africa
  4. Intimate partner sexual violence add content on Western and Eastern Africa
  5. Hate speech laws by country add subsection on Nigeria
  6. Sexual abuse in primary and secondary schools add subsection on Nigeria
  7. Murder of pregnant women article needs content on Africa, UK and Asia
  8. List of women who died in childbirth add a section on Ghana
  9. Mental disorder add content on Africa
  10. Intellectual disability add content on Africa
  11. Pediatric nursing "Global development" section needs content on Western Africa
  12. Binge eating#Men with binge eating "Men with Binge eating" section needs more content
  13. Gender inequality in Nigeria article is a stub (too short) and needs more content to make it longer
  14. Stunted growth content on the UK, US and Africa needs to be added to the "Examples" section
  15. Water security - add a section on Water Resources Management in Southern Africa
  16. Climate models - add a section on regional climate modelling over West Africa
  17. West Africa - add a section on the climate of West Africa
  18. East Africa - add a section on climate and urbanisation and rainfall variability
  19. Ecosystem services - add to section on ecosystem-based services
  20. Ethnic penalty Need more sections and content
  21. Civil liberties Need African section
  22. Climate change adaptation - add sections on private sector investment, Southern Africa, East Africa, youth, migration
  23. Aging of Japan may require copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone, or spelling - flagged June 2022
  24. Sustainable city article needs additional citations for verification - flagged since 2019
  25. Sustainable design article has a bad summary and short lead. Needs rewriting - flagged 2020
  26. Climate-friendly gardening Lead too short - flagged April 2021
  27. Ecosystem service inline citations are not properly formatted
  28. Environmental issues may not represent a worldwide view of the subject - flagged March 2020
  29. Environmental impact of meat production section may be too long to read and navigate comfortably - flagged May 2022
  30. Environmental impact of meat production animal waste section is too long to read - flagged May 2022
  31. Environmental impact of Gulf wars multiple issues - flagged since 2013
  32. Environmental impact of Mardi Gras beads citation issues
  33. Environmental impact of iron ore mining Too short
  34. Climate resilience - add section on resilience measurements
  35. Women in climate change This article uses bare URLs, which may be threatened by link rot - flagged June 2022
  36. Equal opportunity Needs proper citation
  37. Egalitarianism Unnecessary words to be removed
  38. Equal employment opportunity article does not represent Worldview
  39. Discrimination Some content need clarify
  40. Air pollution article needs additional citations for verification
  41. Deforestation in Nigeria#Most affected parts in Nigeria. section too short
  42. Artificial intelligence in fraud detection article needs copy editing for grammar, punctuations and style. Citations needed.
  43. African vulture crisis add more citations and content.
  44. Christianity and transgender people needs copy editing and more citations
  45. Counter-terrorism Rapid Response Copy Editing and citations needed

Articles lacking citation

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Any of the links below will take you to a page where Wikipedia articles lacking citations have complied. To edit, click on "I've got this" and you will be taken to the Wikipedia page. Or you can click "next", and you will get another article to work on.

  1. articles lacking citation on SDG 1 (No poverty)
  2. articles lacking citation on SDG 2 (Zero hunger)
  3. articles lacking citation on SDG 3(Good health and well-being)
  4. articles lacking citation on SDG 4 (Quality education)
  5. articles lacking citation on climate change
  6. articles lacking citation on environmental issues
  7. articles lacking citation on SDG 10 (reduce inequalities)
  8. articles lacking citation on SDG 11 (sustainable cities & communities)

Red list/Articles you can create

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These are a list of articles you can create although it is advisable to have some experience and understand Wikipedia's standards before attempting to create one. You can use an article similar to the topic as a guide when trying to make a new article.

Table 1: Proposed Articles list
Article to create Article to use as a guide
Obesity in West Africa Obesity in the Middle East and North Africa
Water crisis in Nigeria or other African countries Water crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Malnutrition in Nigeria or other African countries Malnutrition in South Africa
Women in agriculture in Nigeria or other African countries Women in agriculture in India
Homelessness in Nigeria or other African countries Homelessness in South Africa
Youth unemployment in Nigeria Youth unemployment in the United Kingdom
Water resources management in Nigeria Water resources management in Egypt
Water resources management in Kenya Water resources management in Chile
Water resources management in South Africa Water resources management in Argentina
Water pollution in Nigeria Water pollution in the United States
Gender roles in Africa, Gender roles in Christainity, Gender roles in Nigeria Gender roles in Afghanistan, Gender roles in Islam
Women's rights in Nigeria Women's rights in Brazil
Feminism in Nigeria Feminism in the Republic of Ireland
Poverty in South Africa Poverty in South Korea
Hunger in South Africa Hunger in Nigeria
#Ageing of Africa Ageing of Europe

Data recorded by Dashboard

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The Outreach dashboard was used to track the contributions made by editors.


Kwasu

This is a link to the dashboard for the participants from Kwara State University, here

Contributions:

  • Editors: 32
  • Pages improved: 37
  • Edits made: 65
  • Words added: 1.71 K
  • Views to pages created: 633 K
  • References added: 34


Lasu

This is a link to the dashboard for the participants from Lagos State University, here

Contributions:

  • Editors: 70
  • Pages improved: 111
  • Edits made: 380
  • Words added: 15.2 K
  • Views to pages created: 929 K
  • References added: 205


Unilag

This is a link to the dashboard for the participants from the University of Lagos, here

Contributions:

  • Editors: 28
  • Pages improved: 60
  • Article created: 1
  • Edits made: 380
  • Words added: 1.2 K
  • Views to pages created: 200 K
  • References added: 70

Some contributions by editors

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With a turn-out of 80% new editors and 20% old editors, here are some articles they worked on. They either helped in improving either by fixing issues with a flagged article or finding references for content flagged with the [citation needed] tag.

  1. Iffy kay added a section on East Africa (Kenya) to Water scarcity in Africa
  2. Tobilobapaul Added Nigeria content to Cruelty to animals
  3. Zolliyys123 attempted merging Education for sustainable development into Sustainable development while MajorDZod felt both articles should not be merged
  4. Pedestrian village article needed additional citations for verification and was flagged in 2019. JoshuaOpemipo20 and Miderhap123 resolved it.
  5. Harlomer added content and section on East Africa to Drylands
  6. Environmental issues in Brazil - updated
  7. Discrimination, Ecosystem service and East Africa - improved
  8. Hormorkunmy started the new article Malnutrition in Nigeria
  9. Udeugoanna added more content to Corrective rape
  10. Manbukky2021 and Eniolaoluwa improved Suicide in Nigeria
  11. Ecocide improved by Manbukky2021
  12. Intimate partner sexual violence improved by Mosope Coker
  13. Manbukky2021 added a subsection on Nigeria to Hate speech laws by country
  14. Kojoclicks and Dawe321 added a subsection on Nigeria to Sexual abuse in primary and secondary schools.