Hi all.

A number of Wikipedias have either already created, or are discussing, a more visible section on their Main Page to their local information about COVID-19. Some have chosen to highlight a section in their existing "In The News" equivalent or related ideas, some have chosen a sitenotice banner.

A few existing examples:

* https://de.wikipedia.org/

* https://en.wikipedia.org/

* https://it.wikipedia.org/

* https://ko.wikipedia.org/

* https://nl.wikipedia.org/

Readers often turn to Wikipedia for neutral information in times of stress, and I think it's great that some communities are actively assisting like this. E.g. Enwiki is getting 900,000+ pageviews each day for their main article this week.[1][2]

1) Question: Does your language community do something else/unique that is worth sharing?

2) Suggestion: If not, you might like to start a discussion with your community about adapting one of these ideas above, yourselves.

3) Reminder: Please let people know if there's anything we can do to help, particularly if your community is small and doesn't have anyone available who can easily change things like Main Page design aspects. You can contact other editors for help at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech, or can contact the WMF Web team at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Reading/Web.

Best wishes to you all,

--Quiddity

P.s. There are also some interesting notes being collated at

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coronation

and

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/COVID-19

[1] [This should be all one link. It's just 10 examples out of the many related articles.]

<https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&range=this-year&pages=2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic|Coronavirus_disease_2019|Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome_coronavirus_2|Social_distancing|Timeline_of_the_2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic|COVID-19_testing|Coronavirus|2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic_by_country_and_territory|Misinformation_related_to_the_2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic|Xenophobia_and_racism_related_to_the_2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic>

[2] See also https://tools.wmflabs.org/langviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&range=this-week&sort=views&direction=1&view=list&page=2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic for just one example article, across many languages, out of the dozens-to-hundreds of related articles that many wikis already have.