WHO partners with Wikimedia to raise health awareness in Malaysia

Launched in April 2021, the WikiSihat competition was a joint effort to get more verified medical info onto the Malay Wikipedia. They basically asked the public to help translate and write articles on topics like COVID-19, vaccines, and heart disease so that Malaysians could access life-saving facts in their native language.

Key Highlights

• Competition Focus: Participants were tasked with writing or translating articles on COVID-19, vaccines, tuberculosis, nutrition, and non-communicable diseases.
  
• Health Literacy: The project aimed to combat misinformation by making complex medical data easy to read in Malay.
  
• Verified Sources: All entries had to meet WHO and Wikipedia standards for "high-quality" and "reliable" sourcing.
  
• Localized Strategy: This followed a global partnership between the WHO and the Wikimedia Foundation, but tailored specifically for the Malaysian context.
  

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