Hi all.
A number of Wikipedias have either already created, or are discussing, a
more visible section on their Main Page to their local information about
COVID-19. Some have chosen to highlight a section in their existing "In The
News" equivalent or related ideas, some have chosen a sitenotice banner.
A few existing examples:
*
https://da.wikipedia.org
*
https://de.wikipedia.org/
*
https://en.wikipedia.org/
*
https://it.wikipedia.org/
*
https://ko.wikipedia.org/
*
https://nl.wikipedia.org/
Readers often turn to Wikipedia for neutral information in times of stress,
and I think it's great that some communities are actively assisting like
this. E.g. Enwiki is getting 900,000+ pageviews each day for their main
article this week.[1][2]
1) Question: Does your language community do something else/unique that is
worth sharing?
2) Suggestion: If not, you might like to start a discussion with your
community about adapting one of these ideas above, yourselves.
3) Reminder: Please let people know if there's anything we can do to
help, *particularly
if your community is small* and doesn't have anyone available who can
easily change things like Main Page design aspects. You can contact other
editors for help at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech, or can contact
the WMF Web team at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Reading/Web.
Best wishes to you all,
--Quiddity
P.s. There are also some interesting notes being collated at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coronation
and
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/COVID-19
[1] [This should be all one link. It's just 10 examples out of the many
related articles.]
<
https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=…
|Coronavirus_disease_2019|Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome_coronavirus_2|Social_distancing|Timeline_of_the_2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic|COVID-19_testing|Coronavirus|2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic_by_country_and_territory|Misinformation_related_to_the_2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic|Xenophobia_and_racism_related_to_the_2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&range=this-year&pages=2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic%7CCoronavirus_disease_2019%7CSevere_acute_respiratory_syndrome_coronavirus_2%7CSocial_distancing%7CTimeline_of_the_2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic%7CCOVID-19_testing%7CCoronavirus%7C2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic_by_country_and_territory%7CMisinformation_related_to_the_2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic%7CXenophobia_and_racism_related_to_the_2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic
[2] See also
https://tools.wmflabs.org/langviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=…
for just one example article, across many languages, out of the
dozens-to-hundreds of related articles that many wikis already have.