Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19/WMUK-WPMEDF Joint Support Task Force

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Wikimedia UK and Wikimedia Medicine are creating a joint initiative to help tackle the issues around information about COVID-19 on Wikipedia, and we need your help.

The are hundreds of articles related to the pandemic, from pages detailing the outbreak in specific areas to the impact of the pandemic on aspects of society such as education. This is a a huge resource to maintain and we are looking for editors to help out. The main articles on the pandemic, the condition, and the virus have lots of editors curating them and we want to use our experience and efforts to focus on the other articles.

Whether you can spare ten minutes from your regular editing or want to divert your efforts to this area, we want as much help as we can gather. We will be using this page to coordinate efforts and share resources.

Open tasks

More suggestions will be added here, but at the moment articles in Category:COVID-19 pandemic need factchecking.

OpenStreetMap

Our friends at OSM-UK have a project to to add medical facilities (pharmacies, GPs, dentists, hospitals - including the new Nightingales, and field hospitals) to their map of the UK. You can halp, either directly, or indirectly by adding images (from your archives, or freely-licensed online resources - don't go out!) of such places to Wikimedia Commons.

Sign up

• I'll be helping coordinate things on Wikimedia UK's side. Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk)
• Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits
• --RexxS (talk) 14:42, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
• Moksha88 (talk) 03:10, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
• John Cummings (talk) 11:14, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
• I've been looking out for missing topics and getting them started (health security; open-air treatment; smart thermometer, proning) and am generally willing to help out. Andrew🐉(talk) 16:24, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Progress

This area can be used to make a note of articles that have been checked and any outstanding issues to help other collaborate

Resources

• WP:MEDRS – The guidelines around
• Training module on writing about medical topics – prepared by the WikiEdu Foundation.
• List of useful sources curated by Wikipedians