Starting May 16th at noon in your time zone, help us check-in with the global Wikimedia community during the times of the COVID-19 Pandemic, and gather snapshots of life during this historic moment world-wide.
The project will last 100 days, until August 22, 2020! We hope you will continue to leave messages and entries for this effort.
Take a look at the locations of the check-ins so far and add your city to the Wiki Check In Open Street Map (click on the map)
What is the Global Wiki Check In?
The Global Wiki Check In is a chance to collaborate with members of the global Wikimedia community and gather snapshots of life during this historical moment we are all witnessing world-wide.
Beginning Saturday, May 16th, 2020 at noon in every time zone, we held a 24 hour editathon. The project will last 100 days, until August 22, 2020! We hope you will continue to leave messages and entries for this effort.
We are living in complicated times. In moments like these, the Wikimedia movement is more important than ever.
How do I participate?
Start Here
Starting now: To join the check-in we invite you to:
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First: Find your timezone in the table below! Help us map the check-in around the world!
Say hello in the table below! We want to hear from you, add a message in your language!
More ways to contribute
While you are here, you can add an image and contribute an edit for our global edit-a-thon that will serve as time-capsule helping to document the movement's actions in this unprecedented time.
Upload a photo to the Wiki Check in Wikimedia Commons Campaign that captures something related to life in your context or part of the world during the pandemic. You can also upload an audio or video clip (ideally 10-30 seconds long).
Examples:
Women wear home-made masks during the COVID19 Pandemic
Social distancing sign on McDonalds restaurant takeout floor tiles
Man wearing mask during COVID19 pandemic New York
Surprise concert on the street outside my window Sweden
White flowers at Kålltorp in spring Sweden
Bus driver safety during COVID-19 Pandemic in Rome (Italy)
Green-White-Red, Italy flag colors with clothespins, to give myself courage
Smart working during COVID-19 pandemic in Rome
FPP2 masks
COVID-19 guidelines and disinfectant in the workplace
Social Distancing In Jamaican Restaurant Chain
Singapore LRT vacant seats with safe distancing markings in compliance to state regulation on circuit-breaker measures
Surgical mask
Some online market offered a few surgical masks every first order delivered
City rumors. Rome during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown(help | download | file info)
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Make an edit or add and entry to a Wiki: Make or add an entry to Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikisource or more to Wikimedia Commons! Show something you are editing that captures this moment whether it be an edit adding a reference about the news, a translation of a key topic on Wikipedia, connecting a WikiData item, transcribing a Wikisource. Share with us an edit that captures what you are working on now as a time capsule for future generations. How are you responding to this moment?
Tell fellow Wikimedians about the Check In! Wikimedia only works when we do it as a community. Tell 3 other editors that you want to check in on through their talk page, or share #WikiCheckIn on social media.
Our World Right Now: Wiki Check In Snapshot Submissions
Directions:
Find your time zone (the time where you are right now) by clicking on the corresponding blue button below. You can also use Wikivoyage's time zone guide to find your time zone.
Add your user name and a message in your language in the table provided for you.
Note: If you use the tell a friend "ping" option, please remember to add ~ four times for your signature with each friend or it may not reach them properly.
My photograph is from a walk I took around Lyall Bay, in Wellington. This is the first weekend that New Zealand has had at Lockdown Level 2, enabling folk to be out and about, undertake sports such as kite surfing, shopping relatively normally and gathering in groups no larger than 10.
I edit English Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikicommons. I am working on #1Lib1Ref, #WomenInRed work, and WikiProject:iNaturalist in both Wikidata and Wikicommons.
Hello, Wikimedians! I'm hoping all my international friends are staying well. I recognise how lucky we are in New Zealand and wish all my wiki friends well and safe.Ambrosia10 (talk) 03:27, 16 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
This video is a cheat from a week ago when New Zealand was in Alert Level 3, but preparing to move to Level 2. It advises cyclists to look out for pedestrians and their "bubble".
I add and edit items in Wikidata and upload to Commons.
Kia ora, CheckIn editors. Wishing you all the best from Aotearoa New Zealand! Ngā mihi mahana (in Māori this means "Warm greetings")
I edit English Wikipedia mostly. Articles featuring women, theatre and Māori. I am learning about Wiki.
Kia ora koutou, (hello to all), Ko Raukawa tōku moana, nō Whanganui-a-tara ahau, ko Ngāti Pākehā tōku hapū. (Raukawa is my ocean, I am from Wellington, I am Pākehā - a white New Zealander.) Ngā mihi ki tēnei whakapapa o CheckIn. (I applaud the purpose of CheckIn).
Schools in my state of Victoria are currently open only for children of essential workers or those who are vulnerable. Most students and teachers are involved in remote learning from home. Victoria plans for a staged return to on-site schooling for students in Prep – Grade 2, Year 11 and 12 and all students in specialist schools from Tuesday 26 May 2020. Others will go back on Tuesday 9 June 2020.
My main contribution is in the Wikimedia Australia chapter and outreach activities in education and GLAMs. I edit mainly Wikidata in the area of Australian education. I am working on #1Lib1Ref and #WikiCite.
Hi everyone! Wishing everyone the very best from a sunny, autumn afternoon in Melbourne.
The main activity has been with teaching Wikipedia and Commons to university students. Working from home has increased my workload, compared to travelling to and from Sydney once a week. But still hoping to go through my photograph backlog that needs to be edited and uploaded!
Hello Wikimedians, while it is cold in the southern Hemisphere, I hope it is warm where you are and able to go out for a walk, while practicing social distancing.
Commons, en.wikipedia. incubator.nys, editing about the pandemic, photographing the effects on it Western Australia, including checkpoints, and closed places from parks to shops. Also have been uploading photographs from a digitization project that digitized a private collection of slides taken over the last 60 years. On 16 May at Midday during documenting COVID-19 in Western Australia for Wikimedia Australia I took a self portrait.
Philippine municipalities, cities in English & Tagalog Wikipedias, Philippine household data on Wikidata, Drawing on Inkscape to upload to Commons, Filipino Speeches to Wikisource, edits & admin works to Wikimania wiki.
Hello everyone! I hope you stay safe and maximize your idle time contributing content to Wikimedia projects!
Lately, I've been adding some photos and letters relating to the north-west of Western Australia in the early Twentieth Century. I'm trying to transcribe all I can on Wikisource. There's something nice about ignoring the modern world for a while!
Hello! Thank you everyone for making Wikimedia a nice place to hang out.
Sign before entering a shop in Bhubaneswar during COVIDThermal screening before entering a shop in Bhubaneswar.Evening before a low-pressure in Bhubaneswar
Currently inactive on many projects from volunteer account, but recently advocated the government to share their COVID-19 dashboard under an open license.
ଆପଣମାନେ ଖୁସି ତ? "Apono mane khusi ta?" - "Are you all happy?" It was used as a political liner for 2014 elections, but later became a very generic statement in sarcastic way.
Active mainly on the English Wikipedia editing on science, scientists, the history of science, the natural world with incidental uploads on Commons, mapophile - Wikimaps warper, incidental edits on Wikidata
This is a historic moment, now is a time when we can all reflect and consider which parts of normal we actually want to go back to.
I edit about COVID-19 on Wikipedia, Sindhi Wikipedia and Urdu Wikipedia and alsobadd Wikilinks, my major contribution about COVID-19 is on Sindhi Wikipedia, where I have created COVID-19 Portal, Project, Articles, translated SVGs etc.
ڀليڪار آئون سنڌ، پاڪستان کان آھيان، سلام مئیں سندھ، پاکستان سے ہوں، سائينم سدائين ڪرين مَٿي سنڌ سُڪار، دوست مِٺا دلدار عالم سڀ آباد ڪرين، شاھ عبدالطيف ڀٽائي
People strolling during a pandemic in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, St.-Petersburg, RussiaPeople strolling during a pandemic in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, St.-Petersburg, RussiaMega Park about the time of the pandemic. Kudrovo, Vsevolozhsk district, Leningrad region, Russia.
Myv-wikipedia, Wikidata, Commons
RU:Будьте здоровы, люди! Вместе мы сильны! MYV: Уледе шумбравт, ломанть! Вейсэ минь виевдянок!
Daje che je la famo (Romanesco dialect for We will do it!). How are you/How you feel. I had up and downs, sometimes following the daily news from the Protezione Civile Department, sometimes not even reading the newspapers. Was hard to me to concentrate on doing anything (including my IT smart working, and surprisingly even on writing in Wikipedia). But from Monday, May 18th, lockdown in Italy will finish, so some new fresh air will come.
My photograph shows teddy Alex sitting in the window in The Hague and waiting for children to spot him. Teddy bears were being placed in windows in the Netherlands (and elsewhere) as part of a game - the teddy bear hunt- meant to entertain children (and adults) during the period of coronavirus lockdowns and social distancing.
A meadow I pass on the walks I do regularily to keep me fit and healthy. It was planted intentionally with flowers that wild bees and other insects can feed on.
Trying to finish articles I had started and left in my sandbox on de.WP - mostly biographies of living people that outside of Europe, but also random other things.
Servus, ich hoff Euch geht's gut, passt auch Euch auf!!!
First week-end after the end of confinement in Marseille Gd-Littoral. After 53 days in their home, inhabitants were hoping to relax during that first week-end, outside in the sun. Instead, they queued under pouring rain outside of a mostly-closed shopping center. Better stay home !
Currently, mostly cataloguing images from the Wiki Loves Africa 2020 photo contest and working to revamp the Gender gap portal :)
I would be editing articles around musicians in Ghana and would take time to improve the article around COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana. Also, work on a blog post for a recent Wikipedia Brand activity.
Women wear home-made masks during the COVID19 Pandemic Elevator social distancing sign New York City COVID19 PandemicWoman wears Black Lives Matter Shirt in NYC
The pandemic impact on delivery, grocery, medical, sanitary and other essential workers
Hello from New York City and the tri-state area around New York in the US.
A carry-out restaurant in San Juan put a bottle of Hand-sanitizer at its entrance to help its customers during the coronavirus outbreak.A woman violates the coronavirus quarantine in Puerto Rico by going for a walk when it was not permitted in the island in March, 2020.
Dove taking flight off of a street light in Parede, Portugal (photo by self). After spending two years in Lisbon, I flew back to the United States just before flights were stopped from Europe. I am still in the process of getting settled back at home.
I mostly edit Wikisource, eleven years and counting, but have created and added to several articles at Wikipedia, the most recent being Exiles Memorial Center, a research museum in Estoril, Portugal.
"Cada sonho morre às mãos doutro sonho." ("Every dream dies at the hands of another dream.") —Portuguese poet Eugénio de Andrade in poem "Nocturno de Lisboa."
What are you interested in editing about? (on any Wiki, Wikipedia, Wikidata, WikiSource, etc)
Leave a hello or positive greeting in your language
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Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
USA/ Nevada City, California, USA
A sunny morning when three pine trees in Nevada City, California, USA were practicing social distancing. (15 May 2020)
Mostly, I create articles on Wikipedia about women writers and sometimes, other women's biographies, in support of WikiProject Women in Red. I'm also plodding along with my "Women Writers in Review" project on Wikidata.
Looking forward to a time when we can get together again.
I edit mostly women's biographies with WikiProject Women in Red. Last night I started an article on a Polish violinist, en:Eugenia Argiewicz (1887-1969).
Hello! I contributed a photo of some chalk art we've done in front of our house, to entertain ourselves and passersby. People still have to walk dogs, so we have a steady audience.
Two producers! A new article on Suzi Dietz (theater) and a discography for (music producer) Mike Elizondo. Which is the kind of thing I'm usually editing on Wikipedia.
Greetings from a safe distance on a sunny afternoon
Participating in the Visible Wiki Women campaign by bringing images of women, especially black, brown, indigenous and trans women to Wikimedia Commons.
Saudações de uma wikimedista brasileira e feminista vivendo nos Estados Unidos. Espero que todes estejam bem, especialmente os wikimedistas do Brasil. Enviando força e solidariedade!
My friend Rev. Phil Sano organized a dance party in Portland to honor our dear friend Kelly Peach, who died recently. The event was held an empty movie theater parking lot, where we could dance with plenty of space for social distancing (between those who do not live together). It's important to keep up our connections in a time like this, as difficult as it can be. Thank you Phil for pulling this together.
These days, I am mostly editing English Wikisource, Wikipedia and Wikidata. I am working on News on Wiki, an effort to improve wiki coverage of news outlets, and transcribing old books on Oregon history.
Hello, Wikimedians! I hope all my friends and colleagues on the wiki are staying healthy and keeping your spirits up. These are difficult times. Our efforts on wiki are as important as ever, with so much confusion and misinformation in the world. -Pete Forsyth (talk) 22:15, 15 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
P. S. I tweeted my check-in here. Who else put theirs on Twitter? Post here if you did so I can like & retweet!
I am most interested in editing random WikiPedia articles mostly, whenever I am interested in some topic and feel like contributing. I was just working on my older brother's two (2) mental health and mental illness consumer-related websites probono NoLongerLonely and PeerPortal and I'm immensely proud of how far he has come and what he is doing!
Women wear home-made masks during the COVID19 Pandemic
Social distancing sign on McDonalds restaurant takeout floor tiles
Man wearing mask during COVID19 pandemic New York
Surprise concert on the street outside my window Sweden
White flowers at Kålltorp in spring Sweden
Bus driver safety during COVID-19 Pandemic in Rome (Italy)
Green-White-Red, Italy flag colors with clothespins, to give myself courage
Smart working during COVID-19 pandemic in Rome
FPP2 masks
COVID-19 guidelines and disinfectant in the workplace
Social Distancing In Jamaican Restaurant Chain
Singapore LRT vacant seats with safe distancing markings in compliance to state regulation on circuit-breaker measures
Surgical mask
Some online market offered a few surgical masks every first order delivered
A beetle, which we uploaded to iNaturalist today.
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