Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/SureWeCan6

COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States Edit-a-thon / Translate-a-thon

When and Where
Date	January, 29th, 2022
Time	1PM - 3PM E.S.T
Address	ONLINE
City, State	Brooklyn, New York 11206

The COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States Edit-a-thon / Translate-a-thon - will take place online via Zoom on Saturday - January 29th, 2022, 1pm-3pm E.S.T and focus on the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. We will edit COVID-19 related topics. This event is hosted by Brooklyn, NYC based, multilingual community and recycling center: Sure We Can.

There will be experienced Wikipedia editors on the video conference to help beginners! The outreach team at Sure We Can is translating the COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the United States article into Spanish and we will demonstrate writing that article in the Spanish language Wikipedia project. We encourage multilingual people to attend and help translate articles!

Sure We Can is a recycling and community center in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NYC with a mission focused on environmental justice. The edit-a-thon is part of Sure We Can's work with NYC Health + Hospitals to stop the spread of Covid-19. This is the 4th Covid-focused Edit-a-thon that Sure We Can has hosted. Click here to see the last three COVID-19 focused edit-a-thons: Sept 6th, 2020 & Nov 21, 2020 & Feb 6th, 2021. In past events, we translated the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City article into Yoruba, Malagasy, Hebrew, Swahili, Tagalog, Korean, Russian, Japanese, Portuguese, Polish, Greek, Haitian Creole, and more.

Please join us, all skill levels welcome! No such thing as a stupid question!

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Event information

• Date: Saturday, January, 29th 2022
• Time: 1pm - 3pm EST
• 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

• Translate the COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the United States article into Spanish
• Update COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the United States
• Continue to expand coverage on COVID-19 pandemic in NYC
• Articles to Edit:
  • Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States (2020)
  • Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States (2021)
  • COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the United States
  • List of early cases of COVID-19 in the United States
  • COVID-19 vaccination in the United States
  • COVID-19 vaccination mandates in the United States
  • COVID-19 misinformation by the United States
  • Healthcare in New York City

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Possible attendees

• Netherzone (talk) 02:06, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

Likely attendees

• Wil540 art (talk) 10:01, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

• DharmaDrummer (talk) 00:43, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

• – Anon423 (talk) 11:25, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

• Smoon1211 (talk) 13:28, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

• MargaretRDonald (talk) 19:44, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

• Blue Rasberry (talk) 21:15, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

• 111.65.62.110 (talk) 05:45, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

• Gliblersburg (talk) 18:44, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

• Treetopz (talk) 22:56, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

• 1Veertje (talk) 15:28, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

• Jim.henderson (talk) 15:26, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

• Pharos (talk) 17:58, 29 January 2022 (UTC)