On 17 March 2020 at 14:38 Lucy Crompton-Reid
<lucy.crompton-reid(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
We are also keen to explore ways in which we can support editors and readers during
this period. Some of our ideas at this point include:
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* Exploring the potential for online editing
events specifically focused on producing quality information about the pandemic and
associated issues
I've been working today on Wikidata, improving items related to Covid-19 medical
publications. There is obviously a lot of do in this area, on the most recent papers. It
is not that hard to get to the coalface.
* Joining wider advocacy efforts across the
movement encouraging bodies such as the WHO to release their content under open licences
And this naturally goes with. The actual situation, in terms of the general public being
able to read the best sources on the pandemic, is a crash course in "open
access", and what the more weaselly definitions amount to.
Charles