No, it's an abbreviation for *Coronavirus Disease 2019* [1]. There are many other "coronavirus diseases".
[1] - https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/index.html Best, Paulo James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com> escreveu no dia domingo, 15/03/2020 à(s) 21:02: > Covid is an abreviaton for coronavirus disease. > > J > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2020, 14:56 Paulo Santos Perneta <paulospern...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Congratulations for the new project. > > > > Possibly you could start by moving the "coronavirus" pandemic articles at > > wiki.en to the proper name of the disease, COVID-19. > > No idea why the English Wikipedia insists naming this disease with the > name > > of a group of virus that causes a number of other different diseases, > > instead of the WHO recognized name, providing misleading information and > > opening fertile ground to all kind of fake news and disinformation > selling > > stuff for other coronavirus diseases as if it was COVID-19. > > Even worst, it's contaminating other projects, like Wikidata and > Wikimedia > > Commons, with teams of wiki.en editors going there to revert anyone that > > dares to move the disease to its proper name. > > > > Please help fix this, providing accurate information, specially at a > > situation like this, is at the core of Wikipedia mission. > > > > Best, > > Paulo > > > > Tito Dutta <trulyt...@gmail.com> escreveu no dia domingo, 15/03/2020 > à(s) > > 19:47: > > > > > Please read the noticeboard/talk page link as: > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_COVID-19. It > > > looks > > > like I had another noticeboard open at that time. Apologies for the > wrong > > > link in the last post. > > > > > > Thanks > > > Tito Dutta > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 at 01:15, Tito Dutta <trulyt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > A few Wikipedians on English Wikipedia have decided to start a > > > WikiProject > > > > on COVID-19 on English Wikipedia to work more systematically and > > > > collaboratively on the subject. The WikiProject is started by > > > > [[User:Another Believer]] on 15 March, and very quickly got ~20 > > > > participants and several discussions started on the talk page. > > > > Please have a look at WikiProject: > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_COVID-19 > > > > Questions or comments or suggestions at: > > > > > > > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Noticeboard_for_India-related_topics > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > Tito Dutta > > > > [[User:Titodutta]] > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
