Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19/SureWeCan COVID19 Task Force

The Sure We Can COVID-19 Wikipedia Task Force is a digital outreach program that began on September 6th, 2020 during the Coronavirus pandemic based out of Sure We Can, a multi-lingual recycling and community center in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NYC. This task force project focuses on wikipedia editing and writing to share simple, factual information on the Coronavirus Pandemic in New York City with the goal of explaining the seriousness of the pandemic. The project specifically focuses on translation and the multi-lingual population of New York City. We believe that the more the global population understands the serious nature of the pandemic, the quicker it will be over, as masking and vaccine measures will slow the spread of COVID-19. The SWC COVID-19 Digital Task Force is part of broader COVID-19 outreach programs of Sure We Can. The COVID-19 efforts at Sure We Can have included COVID testing, handing out of masks and sanitizers, vaccine appointment assistance, healthcare assistance, translation assistance, information outreach, and this digital task force. The COVID-19 programs at Sure We Can are funded by a grant from the NYC Health + Hospitals. During the four edit-a-thons focused on COVID-19, we translated the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City article into Spanish, Tagalog, Korean, Russian, Japanese, Portuguese, Polish, Greek, Haitian Creole, Yoruba, Malagasy, Hebrew, Swahili, and more. Since September, 2020, the articles written during the four Edit-a-thons have been viewedover 14,000 times.

Sure We Can COVID-19 Wikipedia task force

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The Sure We Can COVID-19 Wikipedia task force, lead by Sure We Can's Wikipedian in residence: User:Wil540 art, has focused mainly on translating the COVID-19 in New York City article into 16 different languages. By the end of this project, we hope to reach 20 different languages, covering the 20 most spoken languages in NYC. This task force project is supported and advised by the regional Wikimedia chapter of New York City: Wikimedia New York City a strong and supportive community of local Wikimedians. The project has hosted four edit-a-thons: the NYC COVID-19 Multilingual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, NYC COVID-19: Environmental Justice in Public Health edit-a-thon, the Coronavirus in New York City: Translate-A-Thon, and COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States Edit-a-thon / Translate-a-thon. These edit-a-thons are community oriented events that bring together volunteers to edit wikipedia. The Sure We Can COVID-19 edit-a-thons have focused on bringing together people to work on the selected topic of "Covid-19 in New York City."

COVID-19 Edit-A-Thons hosted by Sure We Can

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Translated versions of COVID-19 pandemic in New York City written by SWC COVID Wiki Task Force

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17 new articles written

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Work

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  • Goal: Translate and update the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City article into the many languages spoken in New York City
  • Completed: August 2021 - COVID-19 pandemic in New York City pushed out to 23 different language wikipedia projects
Languages to edit into (0 - Needs article)
Wikipedia project language: Article: Date published: COVID-19 vaccine article exist?
English COVID-19 pandemic in New York City 3-17-2020 Yes
Spanish Pandemia de COVID-19 en la ciudad de Nueva York 9-6-2020 Yes
Chinese DRAFT:2019冠狀病毒病纽约城疫情 Yes
Russian Пандемия COVID-19 в Нью-Йорке 2-6-2021 Yes
Italian Pandemia di COVID-19 del 2020 a New York 4-11-2020‎ Yes
Haitian Creole Pandemi Covid-19 nan Vil Nouyòk 2-6-2021 No
Korean 뉴욕 코로나 19 바이러스 사태 2-6-2021 Yes
French Pandémie de Covid-19 à New York 11-21-2020 Yes
Tagalog Pandemya ng COVID-19 sa Lungsod ng New York 11-21-2020 No
Polish Pandemia COVID-19 w Nowym Jorku 8-30-2021 Yes
Yiddish קאוויד-19-פאנדעמיע אין ניו יארק סיטי 4-27-2021 No
Japanese ニューヨーク市での COVID-19パンデミック 2-6-2021 Yes
Hindi न्यूयॉर्क शहर में कोविड-19 महामारी 11-21-2020 Yes
Hebrew מגפת הקורונה בעיר ניו יורק 11-21-2020 Yes
Swahili Janga la Covid-19 Jiji la New York 11-21-2020 No
Malagasy Valan’aretina COVID-19 ao New York City 11-21-2020 No
Yoruba Aarun ajakalẹ-arun COVID-19 ni Ilu New York 11-21-2020 No
German COVID-19 Pandemie in New York City 4-5-2020‎ Yes
Portuguese Pandemia do COVID-19 na cidade de Nova York 2-10-2021 Yes
Arabic جائحة فيروس كورونا في نيويورك 2019–2 6-3-2020 Yes
Hungarian Covid19-koronavírus-járvány New Yorkban 2-6-2021 Yes
Bengali নিউ ইয়র্ক শহরে কোভিড-১৯ মহামারী 8-31-2021 Yes
Greek Πανδημία COVID-19 στη Νέα Υόρκη 2-6-2021 Yes