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
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

 * NYC COVID-19 Multilingual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon - September 6th, 2020
 * NYC COVID-19: Environmental Justice in Public Health edit-a-thon - November 21st, 2020
 * Coronavirus in New York City: Translate-A-Thon - February 6th, 2021
 * COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States Edit-a-thon / Translate-a-thon - January 2022

Articles written:

 * high-risk individual / high-risk people
 * COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the United States
 * Indecisión ante la vacuna COVID-19 en los Estados Unidos

Translated versions of COVID-19 pandemic in New York City written by SWC COVID Wiki Task Force
17 new articles written
 * Pandemia de COVID-19 en la ciudad de Nueva York
 * Пандемия COVID-19 в Нью-Йорке
 * Pandemi Covid-19 nan Vil Nouyòk
 * 뉴욕 코로나 19 바이러스 사태
 * Pandémie de Covid-19 à New York
 * Pandemya ng COVID-19 sa Lungsod ng New York
 * Pandemia COVID-19 w Nowym Jorku
 * קאוויד-19-פאנדעמיע אין ניו יארק סיטי
 * ニューヨーク市での COVID-19パンデミック
 * न्यूयॉर्क शहर में कोविड-19 महामारी
 * מגפת הקורונה בעיר ניו יורק
 * Janga la Covid-19 Jiji la New York
 * Valan’aretina COVID-19 ao New York City
 * Aarun ajakalẹ-arun COVID-19 ni Ilu New York
 * Pandemia do COVID-19 na cidade de Nova York
 * جائحة فيروس كورونا في نيويورك 2019–2
 * Covid19-koronavírus-járvány New Yorkban
 * নিউ ইয়র্ক শহরে কোভিড-১৯ মহামারী
 * Πανδημία COVID-19 στη Νέα Υόρκη

Articles edited:

 * Healthcare in New York City

Work

 * 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