No, it's an abbreviation for *Coronavirus Disease 2019* [1]. There are many other "coronavirus diseases".
[1] - https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/index.html
Best, Paulo
James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com escreveu no dia domingo, 15/03/2020 à(s) 21:02:
Covid is an abreviaton for coronavirus disease.
J
On Sun, Mar 15, 2020, 14:56 Paulo Santos Perneta paulosperneta@gmail.com wrote:
Congratulations for the new project.
Possibly you could start by moving the "coronavirus" pandemic articles at wiki.en to the proper name of the disease, COVID-19. No idea why the English Wikipedia insists naming this disease with the
name
of a group of virus that causes a number of other different diseases, instead of the WHO recognized name, providing misleading information and opening fertile ground to all kind of fake news and disinformation
selling
stuff for other coronavirus diseases as if it was COVID-19. Even worst, it's contaminating other projects, like Wikidata and
Wikimedia
Commons, with teams of wiki.en editors going there to revert anyone that dares to move the disease to its proper name.
Please help fix this, providing accurate information, specially at a situation like this, is at the core of Wikipedia mission.
Best, Paulo
Tito Dutta trulytito@gmail.com escreveu no dia domingo, 15/03/2020
à(s)
19:47:
Please read the noticeboard/talk page link as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_COVID-19. It looks like I had another noticeboard open at that time. Apologies for the
wrong
link in the last post.
Thanks Tito Dutta
On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 at 01:15, Tito Dutta trulytito@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, A few Wikipedians on English Wikipedia have decided to start a
WikiProject
on COVID-19 on English Wikipedia to work more systematically and collaboratively on the subject. The WikiProject is started by [[User:Another Believer]] on 15 March, and very quickly got ~20 participants and several discussions started on the talk page. Please have a look at WikiProject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_COVID-19 Questions or comments or suggestions at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Noticeboard_for_India-related_t...
Thanks Tito Dutta [[User:Titodutta]]
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