Thank you Qiuwen for sharing this about your community with all of us in
the global community.
We at the Foundation are thinking about the Wikimedians in China and all
communities affected. As Bobby said, this is a thing we all share, and we
must support each other.
Katherine
On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 22:47 Bobby Shabangu <bobbyshabangu(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the heads up Qiuwen, hopefully a cure will
be found soon because
it affects us all.
Kind regards,
Bobby Shabangu
On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 at 19:43, Delphine Ménard <dmenard(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
I am so glad nooone has been affected so far. May
your friends and
families
remain safe during this difficult time and know
that our thoughts are
with
you.
Best wishes,
Delphine
On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 1:17 PM 《求闻》编译组/Qiuwen WMCug <qiuwen(a)wmcug.org.cn
wrote:
> BEIJING, Feb. 29 (Qiuwen) - The coronavirus outbreak originated from
> China's Wuhan in Hubei province only two months ago had already claimed
> thousands of lives with more infected, but none of them are
Wikimedians -
as far as
we know.
As of February 28th, Qiuwen can independently confirm that all active
Wikimedians living in the Greater China are not infected by the virus,
including three of them who live in outbreak's epicenter Wuhan, and
dozens
> more who live in other parts of the Hubei province as well as other
> heavily-infected cities in China. However, many of them were put under
> citywide lockdowns, and just like other local residents, are not
allowed
to
move freely. Meanwhile, one editor in Hong Kong
was put under a
compulsory
> quarantine by local health authorities due to close contact with a
> confirmed patient. The editor was forbidden to go outside their home
for
a
14-day quarantine period. Detailed information of
those editors
themselves
> will not be disclosed for privacy reasons.
>
> Several meetups and edit-a-thons in China were either canceled or
> postponed due to the outbreak. Since many Wikipedia enthusiasts in
China
> are college students, meetups are generally
scheduled to cope with the
> beginnings and endings of academic semesters. However, those meetups
were
> postponed as the 2020 spring semester, which
typically begins from late
> February to early March, was delayed by education authorities.
Organizers
> reported canceling a meetup scheduled to be
held in late January in the
> eastern coastal city of Qingdao, while several others, including those
in
Beijing
and Shenzhen targeting college students, were postponed until
most
> schools reopen.
>
> Another contributing factor to the suspension of these meetups is
> governments have been discouraging people from traveling back from
their
> hometowns to big metropolises like Beijing
and Shanghai after the
Chinese
> Lunar New Year holiday, which means attendee
turnouts for meetups held
in
> these cities may be lower than usual.
>
> The community in Hong Kong seemed to have suspended their meetup for
the
outbreak
as well. The Hong Kong community has had four meetups per year
in
> the past two years, with the most recent one held in November 2019.
> However, the next meetup, which supposes to be held in late February
> according to their routine, was never announced by the community
leaders
in
> the first place.
>
> Communities in Taiwan was not significantly affected by the outbreak,
as
> the island does not have as many reported
cases comparing to the
mainland
> and Hong Kong. Nevertheless, the organizer
for a Wikimedia photowalk
did
make a
post on Facebook, saying a mandatory body temperature check will
be
implemented before the activity rolls out.
The coronavirus outbreak has been ameliorating in China during the past
few days, with new confirmed cases dropped dramatically, especially
outside
> the epicenter Hubei province. Local Wikimedians in Beijing are
currently
planning
to have their meetups rescheduled for the next public holiday,
which is the Tomb-Sweeping Day holiday in early April. But the exact
planning is still yet to be decided.
The Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Deutschland canceled physical
meetings of the Wikimedia Summit on Friday, which planned to take place
in
> Berlin from April 3rd to 5th. The scholarship application for Wikimania
> this August in Bangkok, Thailand, remains open, and there are no signs
> indicating the bigger Wikimedians' gathering will be canceled so far.
>
> ----
> This piece of news was gathered by Qiuwen, a news service operated by
the
would
like to
help deliver news from communities among Greater China to the
wider
world.
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Telegram channel here <https://t.me/Qiuwen>.
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