Haaretz is a well-respected Israeli newspaper with a fairly liberal outlook; the article
itself is hugely complimentary about Wikipedia's coverage and gives real validation to
time spent by Wikipedia editors in producing that content and keeping the quality high.
Keep safe all,
Rexx
On 09 April 2020 at 18:00 Richard Nevell
<richard.nevell(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
Wikimedia UK and Wikimedia Medicine are creating a joint initiative to help tackle
the issues around information about Covid-19 on Wikipedia, and we need your help.
There are three "top-level" articles:
* The pandemic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic
* The condition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019
* The virus:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome_coronavirus…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome_coronavirus…
as well as over 750 related articles. These related articles are where we want to
concentrate our support efforts. Coverage changes very rapidly and there is considerable
concern about ensuring that the information provided is factual and accurate, as well as
up-to-date.
There are many dedicated editors involved in WikiProject Medicine and the recently
created WikiProject COVID-19, but the task of keeping myths, misinformation and
poorly-sourced content out of the large number of articles is huge.
We are therefore asking our regular editors in the UK to do what you do best. We need
help fact-checking and editing the Covid-19 articles. Whether you feel able to spare
fifteen minutes from your regular editing, or bold enough to make it a regular task, every
bit helps.
We have a wiki page to coordinate efforts, share resources, and have discussion:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_COVID-19/WMUK-WPMEDF_Jo…
So please add it to your watchlist.
One starting point is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic from where
you can find something that interests you. Just picking an article, reading its
references, and correcting text that needs it would help. As a useful extra step (though
hardly compulsory) once you’ve gone over an article it would be useful to add a note in
this section:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_COVID-19/WMUK-WPMEDF_Jo…
If anybody needs familiarity with the sourcing standards for medical articles, take a
look at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources_(medic…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources_(medic… -
although most of the content will only need to meet the usual standards for sourcing that
you're used to.
Richard Nevell, on behalf of Wikimedia UK
Doug Taylor, on behalf of Wikimedia Medicine
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