Hi all,
Hope all is well and safe
It's been almost a month the
COVID-19 task force on Wikdiata was created by Bodhisattwa and Wikimedians from different community joined the initiative and started contributing. Currently 31 items as been created for Corona affected states & union territories, 298 items for districts
that are affected by COVID-19 pandemic. Out of this 31 items, currently
13 items are linked to English WIkipedia as well as regional language Wikipedia.
We are currently updating the number of cases, number of clinical tests conducted, number of recoveries, number of death for each these items. Apart from these items we are also creating items for Media bulletins published by different state and union governments of India time to time. We are also adding archiving URLs to it as some bulletins are getting disappeared from the official websites are some days.
From April 2nd week we have tried to fetch these data that we have added from Wikidata to Wikipedia. It displays the active, total, recovery and death cases in the Infobox for the linked article. Initially it was tried in English Wikipedia and then other language Wikipedia. Some of the language Wikis currently using these values includes Malayalam, Gujarti, and Kannada.
Some of the 'coronavirus pandemic' article currently using data from Wikipedia are listed below:
So any changes in Wikidata will reflect in all the Wikipedia where the Wikidata fetch template is used. We have updated the steps on how to add the Wikidata values into Wikipedia Infobox in our task force main page. So that Wikimedians / other users can translate the articles in their language and use the code inside the Infobox to display the data from Wikidata. So that the Infobox shows automatically the updated value from Wikidata.
We have a google sheet page created by Satdeep for displaying the latest updated values and which needs to be updated. We are facing some difficulties in updating some states and districts as the volunteers are less in Wikidata than Wikipedia as well as the data of some districts are not easily available. So we really need your help to go forward with this task.
If you have any questions or need any help, kindly please ping us or ask your questions at
here. If anyone is interested in joining this project, please do join. We have some interesting tasks that we can share with you, so that you can work on it to improve the coronavirus pandemic related items in Wikidata.
I would like to thank all the Wikimedia volunteers, who has activity working on this project and updating the data.
Regards
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