WHO, Wikipedia Expands Public Access to Trusted Info About COVID-19

What You Should Know:
– The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Wikimedia
Foundation forms collaboration to expand public access to reliable, trusted information
about COVID-19.
– The collaboration is part of a shared commitment from
both organizations to ensure everyone has access to critical public health
information surrounding the global coronavirus pandemic.
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
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