Hi all. A number of Wikipedias have either already created, or are discussing, a more visible section on their Main Page to their local information about COVID-19. Some have chosen to highlight a section in their existing "In The News" equivalent or related ideas, some have chosen a sitenotice banner.
A few existing examples: * https://da.wikipedia.org * https://de.wikipedia.org/ * https://en.wikipedia.org/ * https://it.wikipedia.org/ * https://ko.wikipedia.org/ * https://nl.wikipedia.org/ Readers often turn to Wikipedia for neutral information in times of stress, and I think it's great that some communities are actively assisting like this. E.g. Enwiki is getting 900,000+ pageviews each day for their main article this week.[1][2] 1) Question: Does your language community do something else/unique that is worth sharing? 2) Suggestion: If not, you might like to start a discussion with your community about adapting one of these ideas above, yourselves. 3) Reminder: Please let people know if there's anything we can do to help, *particularly if your community is small* and doesn't have anyone available who can easily change things like Main Page design aspects. You can contact other editors for help at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech, or can contact the WMF Web team at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Reading/Web. Best wishes to you all, --Quiddity P.s. There are also some interesting notes being collated at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coronation and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/COVID-19 [1] [This should be all one link. It's just 10 examples out of the many related articles.] < https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&range=this-year&pages=2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic |Coronavirus_disease_2019|Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome_coronavirus_2|Social_distancing|Timeline_of_the_2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic|COVID-19_testing|Coronavirus|2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic_by_country_and_territory|Misinformation_related_to_the_2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic|Xenophobia_and_racism_related_to_the_2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic <https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&range=this-year&pages=2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic%7CCoronavirus_disease_2019%7CSevere_acute_respiratory_syndrome_coronavirus_2%7CSocial_distancing%7CTimeline_of_the_2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic%7CCOVID-19_testing%7CCoronavirus%7C2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic_by_country_and_territory%7CMisinformation_related_to_the_2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic%7CXenophobia_and_racism_related_to_the_2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic> > [2] See also https://tools.wmflabs.org/langviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&range=this-week&sort=views&direction=1&view=list&page=2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic for just one example article, across many languages, out of the dozens-to-hundreds of related articles that many wikis already have.
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