Wikipedia and the COVID-19 pandemic

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March 2020 message to the English Wikipedia's readers about COVID-19, written by Katherine Maher, then-executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation

The COVID-19 pandemic was covered in Wikipedia extensively, in real-time, and across multiple languages. This coverage extends to many detailed articles about various aspects of the topic itself, as well as many existing articles being amended to take account of the pandemic's effect on them.[1] Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects' coverage of the pandemic – and how the volunteer editing community achieved that coverage – received widespread media attention for its comprehensiveness, reliability, and speed.[1][2][3][4] Wikipedia experienced an increase in readership during the pandemic.[5]

  1. ^ a b Rossette-Crake, F.; Buckwalter, E. (2022). COVID-19, Communication and Culture: Beyond the Global Workplace. The COVID-19 Pandemic Series. Taylor & Francis. pp. 45–46. ISBN 978-1-000-62310-9. Archived from the original on 25 April 2023. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  2. ^ Sachdev, Shaan (26 February 2021). "Wikipedia's Sprawling, Awe-Inspiring Coverage of the Pandemic". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Archived from the original on 9 February 2023. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
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