On 17 March 2020 at 14:38 Lucy Crompton-Reid <lucy.crompton-reid@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