Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/SureWeCan3

NYC COVID-19
Multilingual Edit-a-thon - (ONLINE)

When and Where
Date	Sunday, Sept 6th, 2020
Time	2p-4p (E.S.T)
Address	ONLINE
City, State	Brooklyn, New York 10028

The NYC COVID-19 Multilingual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon - ONLINE - hosted by Sure We Can, a recycling and community center in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NYC - will take place on Sunday, Sept 6th, 2020, online. The edit-a-thon is part of Sure We Can's work with NYC Health + Hospitals to stop the spread of Covid-19. We plan to work on translating the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City article into other languages (see below); as well as, brainstorm ideas about how we could use wikipedia to slow the spread of Covid-19. Please join us, all skill levels welcome!

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Event information

- Please register to have contributors reported <-- DASHBOARD

• Date: Sunday, Sept 6th, 2020
• Time: 2 pm - 4 pm
• Location: Zoom link
• Registration: Remote participants on this day are encouraged to add their Wikipedia usernames to the #Sign up below.

• Participants: The event is open to anyone! No Wikimedia experience necessary. Tutoring will be provided for Wikimedia newcomers by members of Wikimedia NYC.
• DO NOT SHOW UP IN PERSON / ONLINE ONLY
• Cost: Free

Goals

Restaurant in New York City during COVID-19 emergency rules

• Create article in Spanish language wikipedia for COVID-19 pandemic in New York City article
• Identify other areas on wikipedia where COIVD-19 work can be done

Languages to edit into (0 - Needs article / X - exists / Z - needs expansion)

Article	Spanish	Chinese	French	Korean	Russian	Japanese	Hebrew	Swahili (sw)	Malagasy (mg)	Yoruba (yo)	German	Italian	Portuguese	Hindi	Arabic	Tagalog	Polish	Greek
COVID-19 pandemic in New York City	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	X	X	0	0	X	0	0	0

Sign up

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Cannot attend

• NicoARicoA (talk) 16:30, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

Possible attendees

• User:Personisgaming

Likely attendees

• Wil540 art (talk) 19:19, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
• econterms (talk) 20:03, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
• Jim.henderson (talk) 17:29, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

• 108.182.17.175 (talk) 15:39, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

• Rcswc (talk) 15:39, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

• 2604:2000:69C1:3300:A4D2:AC44:4A3A:6A7C (talk) 20:44, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

• Pharos (talk) 17:29, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

• Rgm38 (talk) 17:57, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

Outcomes

• photo and COVID-19 pandemic section added to the Al fresco dining page
• sub-section on Open Restaurants added to COVID-19 pandemic in New York City page
• work done on drafts in the Chinese and Urdu and French and Spanish language Covid-19 in New York City pages
  • https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Econterms/Brouillon
  • https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemia_de_enfermedad_por_coronavirus_de_2019-2020_en_la_ciudad_de_Nueva_York
• photos added to Covid-19 in New York State and New York City pages in German, Spanish, and Italian
  • https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19-Pandemie_in_New_York_City
  • https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemia_di_COVID-19_del_2020_a_New_York
  • https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemia_de_enfermedad_por_coronavirus_de_2020_en_Nueva_York
• fixing categorization in commons for the Covid-19 Pandemic in New York City. Also added details to this page.
  • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jim.henderson