diff --git a/submissions/What-Works-Climate-Solutions-Summit-2024.md b/submissions/What-Works-Climate-Solutions-Summit-2024.md index 6bc8b3e..db7549d 100644 --- a/submissions/What-Works-Climate-Solutions-Summit-2024.md +++ b/submissions/What-Works-Climate-Solutions-Summit-2024.md @@ -5,9 +5,11 @@ This file assists with a contribution to the [What Works Climate Solutions Summi # Abstract Title -Climate literacy and Wikimedia projects +Wikimedia Projects as Key Elements of the Global Climate Literacy Landscape # Abstract *(300 words maximum)* -As climate-related matters are affecting ever more aspects of ever more people's lives, it is important to provide reliable information that helps to understand the issues and their ramifications, including potential solutions and the conditions under which they might or might not work. In this context, Wikimedia projects - i.e. Wikipedia and its sister sites like Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons - can and do play an important role by providing general reference information on multiple facets of the climate landscape, in a place where people and machines are looking for such information, in languages that they can understand and in ways that allow anyone to participate. This contribution will provide a guided tour around various climate solutions, the underlying issues and how they are reflected in the content and in the workflows of various Wikimedia projects. The discussion will include biases and gaps in coverage as well as opportunities for other actors in the climate solution and climate literacy space to engage with the Wikimedia platforms' contents, communities or technology stack. +As climate-related matters touch ever more aspects of ever more people's lives, it is essential to provide the public with verifiable information that helps to understand climate issues and their ramifications, including potential solutions and the conditions under which they might or might not work. Wikimedia projects - i.e. Wikipedia and its sister sites like Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons - can and do play an important role in building, strengthening and sustaining climate literacy: they provide a sizeable share of the global population with general reference information on a very broad range of climate-related topics, in a place where people and machines are looking for such information, in languages that they can understand, on an ongoing basis and in ways that allow essentially any individual or group to participate. + +This contribution will provide a guided tour around how various climate issues and potential solutions are reflected in the content and in the workflows of various Wikimedia projects. Examples will be drawn from various domains of climate-related research and practice. The discussion will include biases and gaps in coverage as well as the handling of misinformation and other non-constructive contributions. It will also outline opportunities for actors in the climate solution and climate literacy space to embrace the collaborative nature of these platforms and to engage with their contents, communities or technology stack. Different forms of such engagement will be demoed.