Hello all, For last couple of weeks, I am trying to update state and district wise data of COVID-19 pandemic in India on Wikidata. I have tried to organize the workflow here <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_India/COVID-19_task_force>. Thanks to Mahir for creating all the visualisation queries <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_India/COVID-19_task_force/Queries> and Jinoy for working on the health bulletins. To check how important the entire work is, you can check this map showing the spread of the disease at the district level <https://w.wiki/LCs> or this line chart at the state level, <https://w.wiki/Kvs> for example, all built from Wikidata. This is useful for epidemiological research, distribution of relief and health materials, planning of volunteer relief teams and many other aspects. There are already quite a few non-Wikimedia volunteer workforce working on this.
Now, the problem is, there are huge discrepancies in data provided by WHO, different government health bulletins, media houses and crowdsourced volunteer initiatives and I have been trying as best as I could to find the most accurate data and update them as far as at the district level. Also, the Wikidata interface is not suitable for day-to-day updating like this one, which is another problem. Needless to say, this is extremely exhausting to do it alone for the whole country. So, I appeal to every experienced Wikidata contributors in this list to at least take care of the data of the districts of your states, so that the workload is distributed and we can deliver high quality accurate epidemiological data as the disease spreads further in the country. If I have to do it alone, I will then have no other choice but to leave some states behind which will create unavoidable and unwanted data gaps. If you have any questions or want to join us, please ping me, Mahir or Jinoy here. <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_India/COVID-19_task_force> We have a fairly active messenger chat group to coordinate with, where you are more than welcome. Regards, Bodhisattwa Wikidata volunteer
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