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WHO & Wikimedia foundation expand access to trusted information about COVID-19 on Wikipedia

Kolkata, Oct 23 (UNI) The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Wikimedia Foundation,
the nonprofit that administers Wikipedia, announced today a collaboration to expand the
public’s access to the latest and most reliable information about COVID-19.
The collaboration will make trusted, public health information available under the Creative
Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license at a time when countries face continuing
resurgences of COVID-19 and social stability increasingly depends on the public’s shared
understanding of the facts.
Through the collaboration, people everywhere will be able to access and share WHO
infographics, videos, and other public health assets on Wikimedia Commons, a digital
library of free images and other multimedia.
With these new freely-licensed resources, Wikipedia’s more than 250,000 volunteer
editors can also build on and expand the site’s COVID-19 coverage, which currently
offers more than 5,200 coronavirus-related articles in 175 languages. This WHO
content will also be translated across national and regional languages through
Wikipedia’s vast network of global volunteers.
“Equitable access to trusted health information is critical to keeping people safe
and informed during the COVID-19 pandemic," said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,
Director-General of the World Health Organization. "Our new collaboration with the
Wikimedia Foundation will increase access to reliable health information from WHO
across multiple countries, languages, and devices."
Since the beginning of the pandemic, WHO has taken steps to prevent an “infodemic”
— defined by the organization as “an overabundance of information and the rapid
spread of misleading or fabricated news, images, and videos.”
Wikipedia editors have similarly been on the frontlines of preventing the spread of misinformationsurrounding the coronavirus, ensuring information about the pandemic
is based on reliable sources and updated regularly on Wikipedia.
By making verified information about the pandemic available to more people on one
of the world’s most-visited knowledge resources, the organizations aim to help curb this
infodemic and ensure everyone can access critical public health information.
“Access to information is essential to healthy communities and should be treated as
such,” said Katherine Maher, CEO at the Wikimedia Foundation.
“This becomes even more clear in times of global health crises when information can
have life-changing consequences. All institutions, from governments to international
health agencies, scientific bodies to Wikipedia, must do our part to ensure everyone
has equitable and trusted access to knowledge about public health, regardless of where
you live or the language you speak,” Maher added.
WHO has served as the leading international health agency spearheading the global
response to the coronavirus outbreak. Since the beginning, WHO has worked to rapidly
establish international coordination, scale up country readiness and response, and
accelerate research and innovation. Today, as information on the transmission and
epidemiology of the virus evolves, WHO continues to provide essential guidance and
public health recommendations to governments, communities and individuals
everywhere.
At the same time, Wikipedia volunteer editors, many of whom are from the medical
community, have been creating, updating, and translating Wikipedia articles with
information from reliable sources about the pandemic. As one of the top ten sites in
the world, studies have shown that Wikipedia is one of the most frequently viewed
sources for health information.
At the moment, readers can access WHO’s mythbusting series of infographics on
Wikimedia Commons. The infographics, which focus on addressing common
misconceptions about COVID-19, are also available for Wikipedia editors to
incorporate into Wikipedia articles.
In the coming months, the Wikimedia Foundation and WHO will continue uploading
resources to Wikimedia Commons and collaborating with Wikipedia volunteer
editors to better understand gaps in information needs on Wikipedia articles related
to COVID-19 and how WHO resources can help fill these gaps.
Additionally, under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, other
organizations, individuals, and websites can more easily share these materials on
their own platforms without having to address stricter copyright restrictions.
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