Wikipedia:SWASTHA/Meetups

Online Discussions

The first online meeting of 2022 of the members of Wikimedia SWASTHA, was held on the 17th of October. This online meeting came after a very long lull of more than two years. The primary agenda of the meeting was to kickstart the initiative with renewed energy. Some important points were discussed during the call as well as a proposal for an in-person meetup, in the immediate future, was agreed upon by all who were present.

5th January 2020 : First scheduled conference call was held after the Mumbai Meetup.
9th February 2020 : Community members shared updates about NTD articles
15th February 2020 : Community members talked about an in-person event and discussed challenges while editing healthcare articles.
22 March 2020 : Team discussed an emergency plan-of-action in response to the Corona Virus outbreak
5 April 2020 : Community members updated each other with developments regarding coronavirus articles.
14 June 2020 : In response to the recent mental health debate sparked off by the demise of Actor Sushant Singh Rajput, community members discussed about lack of quality articles on Mental Health in Indic language Wikis. Community Members decided to organise a Mental Health Awareness Week, to improve the quality of such articles.

Basic healthcare outreach in India concept is very well discussed and documented at WikiConnect meetups from 2016.

Delhi Meetup (3rd November 2019) : SWASTHA Concept was discussed at Delhi Meetup in November 2019.
WikiConference North America (9th November 2019) : Project was discussed during Wikimedia Medicine Lunch.
Dedicated event was planned to discuss this project in Mumbai from 27th to 29th December 2019.

Meetup is proposed in North-East India region.
Hyderabad meetup is scheduled, it's been delayed until the situation becomes suitable for offline meetings.