Vaccine-related pages on Wikipedia
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	• Cdesoto705
	Nov 10 2020, 6:52 PM

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Chantal De Soto

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Communications

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With upcoming news about Vaccines, we'd like to provide journalists with information about Wikipedia's Vaccine coverage to help secure positive stories about the site in advance of the Big English Campaign.

Would love your help identifying the number of Covid-vaccine related pages on English Wikipedia, pageview data for those pages and number of editors watching the pages. It would be helpful to have additional information on the number of languages, if it's possible, but not necessary. The timeline for this request could be end of next week around November 19 or November 20.

How will you use this data or analysis?

We plan to use this information to support media pitches related to vaccine news.

Event Timeline

• Cdesoto705 created this task.Nov 10 2020, 6:52 PM

LGoto assigned this task to jwang.Nov 16 2020, 5:38 PM

LGoto edited projects, added Product-Analytics (Kanban); removed Product-Analytics.

@Cdesoto705 Jennifer (@jwang ) is going to tackle this and will consult Shay as needed.

Thanks, @kzimmerman.

@jwang and @SNowick_WMF let me know if there is anything that I can help with.

Hi @Cdesoto705
On english wikipedia, 6 pages are related to Covid vaccine. Other 33 pages are on the same topic and directed to the 6 pages. On the other wikipedias, 89 pages in 53 languages are related to Covid vaccine. Please find the page link, pageview, number of page watchers in below table.

Table:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A73p8HpAHek09TQclUNT-kyltoqqNayIoyEd574DdRU/edit?usp=sharing

Want to mention that current extraction method highly relies on how the pages are categorized and tagged in wikidata. Some of vaccine pages might be missing here as they are not properly tagged yet.

Feel free to let me know if you have any questions.

jwang moved this task from Next 2 weeks to Doing on the Product-Analytics (Kanban) board.Dec 1 2020, 6:05 PM

jwang moved this task from Doing to [Deprecated] Done (previously: Needs sign-off) on the Product-Analytics (Kanban) board.

@Cdesoto705 once this gets your sign-off we'll close this as resolved.