perhaps suggesting design ideas?

@MNovotny_WMF sounds like this one would be for your team?

Yes, we're looking at it now

James says there's a tentative majority on this thread:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:In_the_news#Crazy_idea%3A_dedicating_a_section_of_the_Main_Page_to_coronavirus_news

Can we geolocate content on this page? We have COVID19 articles in almost every language. @ovasileva -- can you please talk to your team and see what the options are?

FYI: we put together a summary of the suggestions and sent out to teams
earlier today, hoping to build on the great suggestions already collected.

• MainPageOngoingEventInTheNews.pdf1 MBDownload

In T247703#5971175, @Tnegrin wrote:

James says there's a tentative majority on this thread:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:In_the_news#Crazy_idea%3A_dedicating_a_section_of_the_Main_Page_to_coronavirus_news

Can we geolocate content on this page? We have COVID19 articles in almost every language. @ovasileva -- can you please talk to your team and see what the options are?

We'll look into this.

Just a note that as of last night editors have added a special section for this (effectively Suggestion 5 from @MNovotny_WMF's PDF). The template for the new box is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:In_the_news/special-header

Can we geolocate content on this page?

Just as a note, we have technical infrastructure to do this (with help of JS or some sort of custom gadget), but I suspect that enwiki community might have misgivings about showing different content to different users.