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(a)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
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_India/COVID-19_task_force>.
Thanks to Mahir for creating all the visualisation queries
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_India/COVID-19_task_force/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 <https://w.wiki/LCs> or this line chart at the
state level, <https://w.wiki/Kvs> 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.
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_India/COVID-19_task_force>
We have a fairly active messenger chat group to coordinate with, where you
are more than welcome.
Regards,
Bodhisattwa
Wikidata volunteer