Wikipedia:SWASTHA/Tracking

=September 2019 - September 2020= Wikipedia SWASTHA (Special Wikipedia Awareness Scheme for The Healthcare Affiliates) aimed to curate, translate, localize, and disseminate important and relevant health information to communities in India and beyond. It sought to address the needs of the communities in India that lacked access to basic health-related information in their language.

September - December 2019
Consultation calls and meetups were held to engage existing Wikipedia communities and academic experts. Project SWASTHA started working on articles in late December 2019 after hosting in-person meeting in Mumbai which was attended by 10+ language community members. Wikipedia experts with average experience of 5+ years gathered under SWASTHA umbrella in Mumbai and decided to work on improving healthcare articles on English as well as local language Wikipedia's.

The platform created through SWASTHA served as a meeting place for volunteers and healthcare professionals to exchange knowledge and to share best practices.

January 2020- March 2020
Initial focus was on
 * Neglected Tropical Diseases in India,
 * Vaccination in India and
 * Child Development in India.
 * Maternal mortality in India Articles were created specially to make sure India-specific information is available on Wikipedia

March - September 2020
Focus shifted completely on Coronavirus pandemic. More members joined the project to monitor pages and major task was to remove potential misinformation. Project received great reception from India media news outlets.

Other articles
Few additional articles were created and existing articles were added to the watchlist.

Clinical Trials related

 * Clinical trials in India
 * Clinical Trials Registry – India
 * Clinical trials on Ayurveda

Mental health

 * Mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic

TB

 * TB in India
 * Nikshay Poshan Yojna

Media Coverage
Numerous news articles highlighted the work of Wikipedia SWASTHA in editing, translating, and publishing Wikipedia articles related to COVID-19 have been published. Most of these articles emphasized the role that Wikipedia SWASTHA is playing to fight misinformation about COVID-19, describing the coronavirus crisis as a crisis about information, as well as about public health. Relevant to this context, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned against an “infodemic” of inaccurate information “that makes it hard for people to find trustworthy sources and reliable guidance when they need it”. The news articles also mentioned the collaboration of Wikipedia SWASTHA with WikiProject Medicine, a larger Wikipedia group of doctors and experts that has produced more than 35,000 medical articles across different languages.

The news articles helped to raise awareness about Wikipedia SWASTHA: its coverage of the COVID-19 articles in Indian languages, and the processes it entails to accomplish the task. It also drew attention to Wikipedia and the importance of reliable information on Wikipedia, especially articles containing critical health information such as COVID-19. The Wikipedia SWASTHA team would like the attention to be focused on the impact and the health topics, more than the branded project. The team hopes that the attention would lead to increased public trust in objective information and greater trust for health authorities.


 * नाइक विजय (14 April 2020). " कोरोना आणि विकिपीडिया सहाक़ स्वास्थ गट". E Sakal
 * नाइक विजय (14 April 2020). " कोरोना आणि विकिपीडिया सहाक़ स्वास्थ गट". E Sakal
 * नाइक विजय (14 April 2020). " कोरोना आणि विकिपीडिया सहाक़ स्वास्थ गट". E Sakal
 * नाइक विजय (14 April 2020). " कोरोना आणि विकिपीडिया सहाक़ स्वास्थ गट". E Sakal
 * नाइक विजय (14 April 2020). " कोरोना आणि विकिपीडिया सहाक़ स्वास्थ गट". E Sakal
 * नाइक विजय (14 April 2020). " कोरोना आणि विकिपीडिया सहाक़ स्वास्थ गट". E Sakal
 * नाइक विजय (14 April 2020). " कोरोना आणि विकिपीडिया सहाक़ स्वास्थ गट". E Sakal
 * नाइक विजय (14 April 2020). " कोरोना आणि विकिपीडिया सहाक़ स्वास्थ गट". E Sakal
 * नाइक विजय (14 April 2020). " कोरोना आणि विकिपीडिया सहाक़ स्वास्थ गट". E Sakal
 * नाइक विजय (14 April 2020). " कोरोना आणि विकिपीडिया सहाक़ स्वास्थ गट". E Sakal
 * नाइक विजय (14 April 2020). " कोरोना आणि विकिपीडिया सहाक़ स्वास्थ गट". E Sakal
 * नाइक विजय (14 April 2020). " कोरोना आणि विकिपीडिया सहाक़ स्वास्थ गट". E Sakal
 * नाइक विजय (14 April 2020). " कोरोना आणि विकिपीडिया सहाक़ स्वास्थ गट". E Sakal
 * नाइक विजय (14 April 2020). " कोरोना आणि विकिपीडिया सहाक़ स्वास्थ गट". E Sakal