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Wikiproject:Covid-19 in Indic languages

Wikiproject COVID-19 in Indian languages is a Meta-Wiki project dedicated to co-ordinate efforts to coverage about SARS-CoV-2 virus, the COVID-19 disease, and the 2019–20 COVID-19 pandemic in Indian language Wikipedias.

Objectives[edit]

Objectives of the project include:

  • Listing out and prioritising articles about Covid-19 and ongoing pandemic that can either be created or improved.
  • Co-ordinating efforts to create, share, and localise materials and media needed to improve the articles.
  • Supporting quality improvement and assessment effort in Covid-19 pages. Encouraging community members who are contributing in this regard.
  • Collaboration with Wikidata task force to set up guidelines to follow in order to automate updation of numbers (like Number of cases, deaths, etc.,) in several articles.
  • Collaboration with Wikigraphists to localise several graphs, images, etc., and making use of them in relevant articles.
  • Collaboration with Translation task force that would create short form articles that will in-turn accelerating translations.
  • Hosting multiple sessions (IRCs, Webinars, etc.,) for collaboration, learning, and also for camaraderie and love in community that is required in current situation.
  • Periodical assessment of project outcomes, impact which result in establishing best practices and improvement of the project methods.

Get Involved[edit]

Sign up from here and add your community name in brackets:

Projects[edit]

List out if your community has a wiki project dedicated to improve Covid-19 content.

Articles[edit]

List[edit]

List of articles and their priority status. When you are adding articles here please make sure that you add either Existing, improved, or New in brackets which will help to assess outcomes of the project.

High Priority[edit]

Article Short form Punjabi Telugu Hindi Urdu Gujarati Marathi Malayalam <<Add your language>>
2020 coronavirus pandemic in India Need to be created pa (Existing) Te article (Existing) ml article (Existing)
2019–20 coronavirus pandemic Short form link pa (Existing) Te article (Existing) ml article (Existing)
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (CoronaVirus 2019) Need to be created Te article (Existing) gu: ml article (Existing)
Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) Short form link
Slightly longer form link
pa (Existing) Te article (Existing) mr: ml article (Existing)
Covid-19 vaccine Need to be created Te article (Existing) ml article (Existing)
Covid-19 Testing Short link
Slightly longer link
Te article (Created) ml article (Created)
Misinformation related to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic short form link Te article (Existing) gu:
Economic impact of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in India Need to be created Te article (Created) ml article (Created)
Social distancing Need to be created mr: ml article (Existing)
Transmission (medicine) Need to be created
High-Priority articles varied based on language-Wikipedia

Regarding articles related to following category, please prioritise based on your language Wikipedia, although some of these articles appear in mid-priority section:

Mid-Priority[edit]

Article Short form Punjabi Telugu Hindi Urdu Gujarati Marathi Malayalam <<Add your language>>
2020 coronavirus lockdown in India Need to be created ml article (created)
Aarogya Setu Need to be created gu: ml article (created)
2020 Tablighi Jamaat coronavirus hotspot in Delhi Need to be created
2020 coronavirus pandemic in Maharashtra Need to be created mr: ml article (created)
2020 coronavirus pandemic in Delhi[notes 1] Need to be created ml article (created)
2020 coronavirus pandemic in Madhya Pradesh[notes 2] Need to be created
2020 coronavirus pandemic in Gujarat Need to be created gu:
2020 coronavirus pandemic in Tamil Nadu Need to be created ml article (created)
2020 coronavirus pandemic in Kerala Need to be created ml article (Existing)
2020 coronavirus pandemic in Italy Need to be created
2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdom Need to be created
2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in mainland China Need to be created Te article (Existing)
2020 coronavirus pandemic in Spain Need to be created
2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States Need to be created
Contact tracing Need to be created ml article (created)
en:Asymptomatic carrier Need to be created
World Health Organization Need to be created ml article (Existing)
2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in Asia Need to be created ml article (Existing)
Novel coronavirus Need to be created ml article (Existing)

Quality Assessment[edit]

Quality assessment can be done in peer review process where one of the editors who has good experience and interest in the project will take up the review and assess the article based on some basic criteria. We would like to suggest a list of criteria which can be taken up by individual language projects but also can be further improved with more criteria:

  • Language and style
    • Logic behind the criteria: Translated articles, especially when they are dealing with science and technology, can face issues with the artificial language. Especially, in the context of Content translation tool being equipped with machine translation tools (like Google translation), this is becoming even more significant problem.
  • Broken templates and missing references
    • Logic behind the criteria: Missing references or broken reference can be another problem as in most of the case articles are not translated completely. Several templates that are used in English may not be there in particular language Wikipedia which also need to be fixed.
  • Wrongly translated phrases
    • Logic behind the criteria: Especially with the technical content this should be looked carefully.

Notes[edit]

  1. This article needs to be updated in English Wikipedia by 19 April. Please be mindful about it while translating this. Please remove this tag if article gets updated.
  2. This article is under quality in English Wikipedia by 19 April. Please be mindful about it while translating this. Please remove this tag if article gets improved by class change