Thanks for the heads up Qiuwen, hopefully a cure will be found soon because
it affects us all.
Kind regards,
Bobby Shabangu
On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 at 19:43, Delphine Ménard <dmenard(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I am so glad nooone has been affected so far. May your
friends and families
remain safe during this difficult time and know that our thoughts are with
you.
Best wishes,
Delphine
On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 1:17 PM 《求闻》编译组/Qiuwen WMCug <qiuwen(a)wmcug.org.cn>
wrote:
BEIJING, Feb. 29 (Qiuwen) - The coronavirus
outbreak originated from
China's Wuhan in Hubei province only two months ago had already claimed
thousands of lives with more infected, but none of them are Wikimedians -
as far as we know.
As of February 28th, Qiuwen can independently confirm that all active
Wikimedians living in the Greater China are not infected by the virus,
including three of them who live in outbreak's epicenter Wuhan, and
dozens
more who live in other parts of the Hubei
province as well as other
heavily-infected cities in China. However, many of them were put under
citywide lockdowns, and just like other local residents, are not allowed
to
move freely. Meanwhile, one editor in Hong Kong
was put under a
compulsory
quarantine by local health authorities due to
close contact with a
confirmed patient. The editor was forbidden to go outside their home for
a
14-day quarantine period. Detailed information of
those editors
themselves
will not be disclosed for privacy reasons.
Several meetups and edit-a-thons in China were either canceled or
postponed due to the outbreak. Since many Wikipedia enthusiasts in China
are college students, meetups are generally scheduled to cope with the
beginnings and endings of academic semesters. However, those meetups were
postponed as the 2020 spring semester, which typically begins from late
February to early March, was delayed by education authorities. Organizers
reported canceling a meetup scheduled to be held in late January in the
eastern coastal city of Qingdao, while several others, including those in
Beijing and Shenzhen targeting college students, were postponed until
most
schools reopen.
Another contributing factor to the suspension of these meetups is
governments have been discouraging people from traveling back from their
hometowns to big metropolises like Beijing and Shanghai after the Chinese
Lunar New Year holiday, which means attendee turnouts for meetups held in
these cities may be lower than usual.
The community in Hong Kong seemed to have suspended their meetup for the
outbreak as well. The Hong Kong community has had four meetups per year
in
the past two years, with the most recent one held
in November 2019.
However, the next meetup, which supposes to be held in late February
according to their routine, was never announced by the community leaders
in
the first place.
Communities in Taiwan was not significantly affected by the outbreak, as
the island does not have as many reported cases comparing to the mainland
and Hong Kong. Nevertheless, the organizer for a Wikimedia photowalk did
make a post on Facebook, saying a mandatory body temperature check will
be
implemented before the activity rolls out.
The coronavirus outbreak has been ameliorating in China during the past
few days, with new confirmed cases dropped dramatically, especially
outside
the epicenter Hubei province. Local Wikimedians
in Beijing are currently
planning to have their meetups rescheduled for the next public holiday,
which is the Tomb-Sweeping Day holiday in early April. But the exact
planning is still yet to be decided.
The Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Deutschland canceled physical
meetings of the Wikimedia Summit on Friday, which planned to take place
in
Berlin from April 3rd to 5th. The scholarship
application for Wikimania
this August in Bangkok, Thailand, remains open, and there are no signs
indicating the bigger Wikimedians' gathering will be canceled so far.
----
This piece of news was gathered by Qiuwen, a news service operated by the
Wikimedians of Mainland China user group <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Mainland_China>gt;. We would
like to help deliver news from communities among Greater China to the
wider
world.
See our on-wiki page here <https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:QW>, and
Telegram channel here <https://t.me/Qiuwen>.
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