Welcome to the event page of the vaccination edit-a-thon! The Vaccination edit-a-thon is a month long event to create content related to vaccination on Wikipedia. The event spans from 8 to 31 May, 2021.
The World Health Organization has named vaccine hesitancy, or anti-vaccination, as one of the top ten threats to global health in 2019. At the same time, the spread of health-related misinformation has fuelled concerns about the potential dangers or inefficacy of vaccines.
Wikipedia is an important resource for up-to-date, accurate vaccine information, and it is currently one of the most frequently visited sites for healthcare information worldwide. Malayalam Wikimedians are now conducting a month-long edit-a-thon to expand Malayalam Wikipedia’s vaccine-related content. The partners in this initiative are NewsQ’s KNoW Science initiative, WHO’s Vaccine Safety Net, Wikimedia DC, Infoclinic and Centre for Internet and Society.
The event will be open to anyone interested in promoting accurate vaccine information online. Training will be provided in Malayalam and English- so no experience is necessary to join the event!
If you are interested in a task list curated specifically for beginner, intermediate and advanced editors, please go to the Vaccine Safety portal's task list here. If you are interested in writing India-specific articles in English, some suggestions are as follows:
This list is automatically generated from data in Wikidata and is periodically updated by Listeriabot. Edits made within the list area will be removed on the next update!
You are welcome to write about topics that are not included in this list. For more vaccine related articles needing creation, please visit the task list on the Vaccine Safety Project.
