Wikiproject:COVID-19 in Indic languages

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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.

Wikiproject:Covid-19 in Indic languages

Objectives

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

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

• User:Pavan santhosh.s (Telugu Wikipedia)
• User:Yethrosh (Urdu Wikipedia)
• Suyash Dwivedi (commons,hi)
• Satdeep Gill (Punjabi Wikipedia)
• Jagseer S Sidhu (Punjabi Wikipedia)
• Meenakshi nandhini (Malayalam Wikipedia)
• Netha Hussain (en-wiki and occasionally ml)
• Vijayan Rajapuram (Malayalam Wikipedia)

Projects

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

• Telugu - WikiProject Covid-19 in Telugu

Local coordinator: User:Pavan santhosh.s

• Urdu - WikiProject Covid-19 in Urdu

Local coordinator:

• Punjabi - WikiProject Covid-19 in Punjabi

Local coordinator: User:Satpal (CIS-A2K), User:Jagseer S Sidhu

• Malayalam - WikiProject Covid-19 in Malayalam

Local coordinator: User:Meenakshi nandhini

• Your wiki - WikiProject Covid-19 in your wiki

Local coordinator:

Articles

List

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

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:

• Category:2020 coronavirus pandemic in India by state or union territory

Mid-Priority

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	Need to be created							ml article (created)
2020 coronavirus pandemic in Madhya Pradesh	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

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.