Wikipedia Weekly #133 - Interview with Netha Hussain
Channel: Wikipedia Weekly
Date: 2020-04-16

Netha Hussain, has been a Wikimedia volunteer for over a decade, is a physician and researcher who has contributed to EnglishWikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Metawiki, and Malayalam Wikipedia. She started WikiProject COVID-19 on English Wikipedia.

Topics
- User page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Netha_Hussain
- Medium - Wikimedia Foundation - Meet some of the women sharing reliable COVID-19 information withthe world on Wikipedia - April 3, 2020 - https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/women-reliable-covid19-information-wikipedia-f1f9255c3672
- COVID-19 Short article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_COVID-19/Translation_Task_Force/Coronavirus_disease_2019_(short)
- Task force - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_COVID-19/Translation_Task_Force
- Quartz article about India - https://qz.com/india/1839018/why-does-india-have-so-few-coronavirus-covid-19-cases-and-deaths/
- Tabular data in Wikimedia projects
- Blog post by Netha: https://wikimedia.se/2020/03/27/how-is-wikimedia-responding-to-covid-19-crisis/

Panelists:
- Richard Knipel, Wikimedian in Residence, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Jan Ainali, Wikimedians for Sustainable Development
- Andrew Lih, host, Wikimedia strategist, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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