Commons:Wiki Loves Earth 2021/COVID19 response

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The global spread of COVID-19 pandemic has some impact on the activities related to Wiki Loves Earth 2021, and the aim of this page is to provide advice to local teams on how to deal with the outbreak of coronavirus in the light of the contest.

You can learn more about the coronavirus spread at the WHO site.

Limitations for offline events

Please note that all offline public events funded by Wikimedia Foundation grants must be aligned with limitation exposed. Thus, if your Wiki Loves Earth contest is funded by a rapid grant or another grant from the WMF (e.g. simple APG), you should follow the respective instructions.

Events funded by your sponsors/partners or the ones that do not require any funding can be held, but please respect all relevant limitations imposed in your country. We recommend you NOT to organize any in-person public events until the world health situation gets better. Still, online activities should not be directly affected by the pandemic, and you can encourage participants to dig through their archives of photos not uploaded to Commons yet.

Advice on fostering online activities for WLE

Some specific advice on how to handle the situation includes:

• If your event is only ten people or less (including the organizing team that will be onsite at the event), please follow local health guidelines for your region or country.
• We advise you to plan your activities responsibly and not to plan ones that will be larger than 10 people, in case such activity is needed, please follow WMF instructions.
• We encourage you to organize events on increasing contributions (edit-a-thons, upload sessions, public presentations, etc.) held online. You may request funds for online platforms or online promotion if needed (rapid grants can fund temporary subscription services for video conferencing, expenses for temporary wired or wireless data plans etc.) and overall put more effort into online outreach.
• Please advise participants to focus on documenting local natural sites in their area (e.g. within cycling distance from their home).
• You may also encourage and give incentives to other activities, which are related to the contest indirectly and can be done from home; such as improving Wikipedia, Wikivoyage or Wikidata content on natural sites, getting permissions on images published online by others, or using pictures from previous years to illustrate Wikimedia projects in different languages.

  For some advice on which activities to hold, see an article in Wiki Loves Earth blog: How to make Wiki Loves Earth photos visible on Wikipedia: Experience of Sweden and other countries.