Wikipedia and the COVID-19 pandemic
Wikipedia's response to a global pandemic / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The COVID-19 pandemic was covered in Wikipedia extensively, in real-time, and across multiple languages. This coverage extends to many detailed articles about various aspects of the topic itself, as well as many existing articles being amended to take account of the pandemic's effect on them.[1] Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects' coverage of the pandemic – and how the volunteer editing community achieved that coverage – received widespread media attention for its comprehensiveness, reliability, and speed.[1][2][3][4] Wikipedia experienced an increase in readership during the pandemic.[5]