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
Jinoy Tom Jacob

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On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 at 21:13, Bodhisattwa Mandal <bodhisattwa.rgkmc@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,

I would like to thank all the Wikimedia volunteers, who has come forward to join the initiative and share the responsibility of updating the data. Thank you Narendra Phadke, Satdeep, Tanveer, Nizil and Ananya.

Regards,
Bodhisattwa

On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 at 23:41, Bodhisattwa Mandal <bodhisattwa.rgkmc@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello all,

For last couple of weeks, I am trying to update state and district wise data of COVID-19 pandemic in India on Wikidata. I have tried to organize the workflow here. Thanks to Mahir for creating all the visualisation queries and Jinoy for working on the health bulletins. To check how important the entire work is, you can check this map showing the spread of the disease at the district level or this line chart at the state level, for example, all built from Wikidata. This is useful for epidemiological research, distribution of relief and health materials, planning of volunteer relief teams and many other aspects. There are already quite a few non-Wikimedia volunteer workforce working on this.

Now, the problem is, there are huge discrepancies in data provided by WHO, different government health bulletins, media houses and crowdsourced volunteer initiatives and I have been trying as best as I could to find the most accurate data and update them as far as at the district level. Also, the Wikidata interface is not suitable for day-to-day updating like this one, which is another problem. Needless to say, this is extremely exhausting to do it alone for the whole country.

So, I appeal to every experienced Wikidata contributors in this list to at least take care of the data of the districts of your states, so that the workload is distributed and we can deliver high quality accurate epidemiological data as the disease spreads further in the country. If I have to do it alone, I will then have no other choice but to leave some states behind which will create unavoidable and unwanted data gaps.

If you have any questions or want to join us, please ping me, Mahir or Jinoy  here. We have a fairly active messenger chat group to coordinate with, where you are more than welcome.

Regards,
Bodhisattwa
Wikidata volunteer
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