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<p>The SDGs are just one example among many different types of knowledge frameworks that can help organize our work. One of the big opportunities and challenges when working with topics for impact is using the knowledge identified by experts to help identify gaps in Wikimedia content. Because, as organizers, we are often not experts in a topic -- we need to turn to specific knowledge frameworks to communicate with institutions, activists and Wikimedia communities about what you expect from them. </p>
<p>This has been a practice long pursued by community groups in the Wikimedia Movement -- many of the early Wikipedia communities focused on creating content from previous encyclopedias (o<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles" target="[object Object]">n English Wikipedia see this project</a>) and more recently projects like WikiProject Medicine focused on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_task_force/History" target="[object Object]">professionally maintained lists of medicines and medical topics</a> important for every Wikipedia to have. Any knowledge gap can be analyzed through existing knowledge frameworks in the academic or other knowledge sources in that field of study.</p>
<p><strong>How can you prioritize one framework over another? </strong></p>
<p>Each knowledge gap needs different types of knowledge frameworks to examine gaps on Wikimedia projects. If I want to organize activities in the Wikimedia movement around the broad theme of “Sustainability”, I could turn to a lot of different perspectives: </p>
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<li> for example, if I was working with scientists at a university I might focus more on a widely adopted science framework (later in this section we will explain the Planetary Boundaries model of sustainability) or</li>
<li> If I were trying to connect more with a smaller language community, I might focus on indigenous or traditional approaches to environmental knowledge, or </li>
<li>If I were working with people working in industry sectors, I might focus on economics or manufacturing descriptions ofthe lifecycle of a particular supply chain.</li>
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<p>Similarly for gender, using different knowledge frameworks can help you engage different publics: some people might be more interested in medical topics, such as sexual and reproductive health, while others are more focused on political frameworks, such as women’s rights and gender equality.</p>
<p>However, practically, new organizers to a topic area might want to either focus on a) themes they are very familiar with or b) knowledge frameworks that are widely communicated and used in the international community. </p>
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