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Hello!
The title for state articles follows the following paradigm 2020 coronavirus pandemic in State. Maybe it should be epidemic? Since from an individual point of view it's an epidemic, the term pandemic is from a global point of view. Or maybe we should use pandemic so as to explain what the effects of the pandemic were in every specific state? Has there been any discussion on this detail? - Klein Muçi ( talk) 19:54, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
..."pandemic" in article titles should be taken to mean "the 2020 coronavirus pandemic as it affects this area". Yeah, I understand that. That's what I meant when I said Or maybe we should use pandemic so as to explain what the effects of the pandemic were in every specific state?. And yes, I do think a FAQ would be a good idea. Before making this question I was looking for something similar to a disclaimer that dealt with this semantic problem but given that I didn't find it...
Well then, I guess that settles it. We too we'll go for pandemic in SqWiki. Thank you all for your thoughts! :) - Klein Muçi ( talk) 02:29, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
There are article's about travel restrictions and the pandemic's impact on aviation, but we might consider expanding Impact of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic on public transport to focus on the impact to global public transport systems. Currently collecting sources here. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 14:37, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
Open-source ventilator, high or top priority article right now. Carl Fredrik talk 09:24, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
I see an editor add mention of Wikidata's WikiProject COVID-19 to the task forces section. Maybe we should turn the "Task forces" section into "Task forces and related COVID-19 projects" and provide a list of task forces here at WPCOVID at English Wikipedia, followed by an overview of WikiProject COVID-19s at Wikipedia of other languages + other Wikimedia projects? Seems helpful to clarify which are specifically task forces under the umbrella of this WikiProject, and which are related but not hosted at English Wikipedia... Thoughts? --- Another Believer ( Talk) 16:31, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
Is there a list of requested articles for this WikiProject? I feel that such a page could be particularly useful for such a fast-developing topic, and have a few ideas I would add myself.-- Pharos ( talk) 16:54, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
Just saw this posted on reddit and this may come in handy: [1]. Juxlos ( talk) 19:00, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The SARS-CoV-2 virus has 29,903 bases, so what is its genome size in picograms? Furthermore, are there any estimates of how much mass is has now in the global aggregate? Thanks. kencf0618 ( talk) 17:48, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
I am new here, and I don't know much about making a new page, yet. Can someone help start this page for me? I would like to see a new page created, on the subject of: Companies which have stepped up and offered assistance during this crisis. I have a collection of links, which tell about anecdotes, but there is a lot more. I want to see these companies acknowledged for the good they are doing; and it might encourage other companies to contribute as well. Here is a link to one article, which details 50 companies which have assisted already: https://www.forbes.com/sites/blakemorgan/2020/03/17/50-ways-companies-are-giving-back-during-the-corona-pandemic/#703c5e2c4723. Also, I have heard about celebrities like Arnold Schwarzenegger who have donated millions to charities. I was going to call the page: " Those Who Helped."
Thank you, Ron Meyer — Preceding unsigned comment added by Javacertified5000 ( talk • contribs) 12:07, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
As discussed on dewp, their pageview stats deviate from usual patterns since school closures and other social distancing measures went into effect in the German-speaking world around March 16. This prompted me to check some other wikis as well, most of which show similar anomalies over recent weeks. Has anyone looked into this in detail yet? -- Daniel Mietchen ( talk) 01:35, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
Shouldn’t there be a task force for preventing misinformation and vandalism on articles related to the Covid-19 virus? Rodrigo Valequez( 🗣) 21:51, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering if I could get 4-5 active members of this Project to participate in an interview for the Signpost WikiProject Report which I put together. If so, please ping me here and we can get connected! Thanks, Puddleglum 2.0( How's my driving?) 05:17, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
The page with questions is here. Username 6892 15:47, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
@ Tenryuu: Hello again, I was wondering if you could ping a couple editors you know are active here and you think might be interested. My writing deadline is coming up, but I don't know which members are active and would be good for an interview. Thanks, Puddleglum 2.0( How's my driving?) 17:05, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
Actually just looked and realized that two more people answered without notifying! =D I'm open for one more person if you can think of one, but I have the minimum now. Thank you all for your cooperation! Puddleglum 2.0( How's my driving?) 17:10, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
Update:
Puddleglum2.0 has accepted answers and closed requests for more contributors. Currently undergoing the rest of the drafting process. --
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Result: The column has been completed and can be found at this here. Many thanks to Puddleglum2.0! Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝) 05:27, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
Shouldn't there be a category for Category: Organizations disestablshed due to the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic or somesuch? Several businesses have already shuttered, or will soon, and won't be coming back. -- 65.94.170.207 ( talk) 18:45, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
Hello! Can someone take a look to this? Talk:Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome_coronavirus_2#SARS-CoV2_life_cycle_diagram - Theklan ( talk) 10:57, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
I am currently translating the Chinese provincial articles, and the lack of automatic machine translation makes the process unnecessarily awfully difficult. The difficulty comes from a) the fact that most of the articles contain heavily technical, formulaic, and repetitive language (hence machine translation reliably gets the technical terms and most of the syntax right and reliably fails at known places that can be easily fixed in batches) that is also intermixed with various Wikitexts such as citations and links; and b) tables with such Wikitexts (it is absolutely ridiculous to spend so much time just to manually retype and format every single district or city name link (bonus pain if they are repeated as in the Shanghai article), which Wikipedia takes care of by itself if you allow machine translation, as I have experienced translating from English to Chinese). The lack of automatic machine translation is the reason why I have eight articles in draft that I have barely touched. Because of the language issue, it is both impractically unfeasible as well as less accurate for me to manually translate the content. The ability to work with a semi-ready bulk of Wikitext will be extremely helpful for me. Rethliopuks ( talk) 18:31, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
As the H1N1 flu is slowly ending it season, can we start plotting the pneumonia deaths on our graphs ? Something like this : https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/mortality.html ? So people can have a better grasp off the situation ? Iluvalar ( talk) 19:55, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
Does the scope of this project include all BLPs whose subjects have died of the disease? Does it also include all BLPs whose subjects have been infected and/or recovered? Elizium23 ( talk) 08:06, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
Is there a previously agreed-upon consensus on whether to apply the WikiProject COVID-19 talk page template on articles that are not directly about COVID-19 but are impacted by it? By which I mean individuals who have died from the disease, sports seasons that have been shortened or cancelled due to it, etc.? — Hunter Kahn 13:11, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
Considering March itself ended up with a page over the size of the page covering the pandemic, are we splitting April? Both February and March have been incredibly long to the point of needing to split them, is it safe to assume that April will be the same? QueerFilmNerd talk 21:23, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
Indefinite Extended-confirmed-protection required for Template:2019–20 coronavirus pandemic data. It seems that protection is expired. Lot of vandalism has started. Thank you. Amkgp ( talk) 13:25, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
Please, can we add extended protection to Template:2019–20 coronavirus pandemic data? At an average of 1 edit per 3.6 minutes, it is already a lot of work to keep this updated and prevent unsourced changes, and now we have to deal with reversion of more edits from anonymous and newbies... -- MarioGom ( talk) 13:53, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
This county-by-county map hasn't been updated since March 27th. I put in a request over on Commons to the last editor who edited it but no response yet. Could someone please update it? I have no idea how, the stats are here: dhhr.gov website. Thanks, Shearonink ( talk) 20:04, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi all,
just in case you need photos of a mobile testing station and/or a person being tested on COVID–19: My fellow Wikipedia colleague
Raymond took a couple of great photos during the inauguration/presentation to the public. They're available in this
Commons category. Best regards, --
Jcornelius (
talk)
19:47, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
As more discussion targets the presence of
risk factors or cases and deaths belonging to "risk-groups", there is need to improve the our article on the topic. There has been a significnt uptick in views since the 16/3
[2].
Carl Fredrik
talk
09:24, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
New article: Impact of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic on the cannabis industry --- Another Believer ( Talk) 12:55, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
Subcategories of Category:April 2020 events will soon be applicable to many COVID-related articles. Just a heads up, if any project members care to work on articles for a select region when the time comes. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 20:38, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
At time of writing, Timeline of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in March 2020 has so many template transclusions that Template:reflist will not expand, and citations can only be checked inside the edit window. Timeline of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in February 2020 is in better condition but still a member of Category:Pages where template include size is exceeded.
Both articles have existing split discussions, at Talk:Timeline of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in February 2020#Splitting proposal, Talk:Timeline of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in March 2020#Templates not showing up, and Talk:Timeline of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in March 2020#Reference fix. However this project talk page seems to be much higher-traffic, and the project covers both existing too-large Timeline articles as well as any future monthly Timeline articles, so I'm tryna centralise our discussion here.
Be it hereby proposed that the Pandemic chronology sections of both the February and March Timeline articles be split out into standalone articles. This will reduce template transclusions on the February Timeline article by over 400, and reduce transclusions on the March article by over 600. For the new article titles I suggest Case chronology of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in February 2020 and Case chronology of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in March 2020, but I'm sure there's a guideline or MOS entry somewhere that has clearer guidance for a title. We can also discuss splitting out the Mainland China section of the February article and/or merging the Mainland China section of the March article, but my point is we should do a split soon, so readers can check our references per WP:V and all.
Pinging prior discussion participants @ Aceing Winter Snows Harsh Cold, Tenryuu, Bondegezou, Username6892, 73.121.138.28, 72.209.60.95, Onetwothreeip, Randy Kryn, Bait30, Alucard 16, Moxy, TheGreatSG'rean, and Elishop:.
[[2020 coronavirus pandemic in ____]]
articles started up (as seen from the many articles created in that format for many US states). I think template use can be further reduced by linking to the articles that talk about those areas. If we want to still create a separate page for that I'm all for it. --
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13:42, 19 March 2020 (UTC)Since it seems there is unlikely to be someone who disagrees with a split, how do we wish to split the page? By date? Inside/outside mainland china would not work (as is suggested on the February timeline). If wanted, we can move this discussion to the itself. QueerFilmNerd talk 00:34, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
A simple way forward would be a split by calender week with a monthly article sumarizing and linking to the individual weeks. Agathoclea ( talk) 08:52, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
Result: The March timeline has been split into Chronology of the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic in March 2020 and Responses to the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic in March 2020. -- Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝) 15:42, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
Do we have any systematic info on which governments are following the WHO recommendation of using both U07.1 and U07.2 for ICD-10 cause-of-death codes? The PL medical agency is using only U07.1, so this keeps the COVID-19 death rate a lot lower than it would under if both U07.1 and U07.2 were used.
There's also a question of where this information would be useful, if we had it available systematically. Coronavirus disease 2019 seems a bit too focussed on the disease "in general" rather than the pandemic; the choice of health authorities to use either only U07.1 or both (or only U07.2 in countries with no tests available at all?) is related to the pandemic, rather than the "disease itself". Any suggestions of pages are welcome, in case this info becomes available. Boud ( talk) 00:35, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
What's up with the Highlighted open discussions / Current consensus section at the top of this page?
Does this serve a purpose? Is this an archiving error? Should we delete? --- Another Believer ( Talk) 13:37, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
In general, is it okay to remove paragraphs like "On March 19, there were # new cases. On March 20, there were # new cases, bringing the total up to #. On March 21...", which essentially duplicate the charts in a less readable manner, from timeline sections? There are a lot of articles that have paragraphs like that. -- Yair rand ( talk) 23:39, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
https://www.mcri.edu.au/news/murdoch-children%E2%80%99s-research-institute-trial-preventative-vaccine-covid-19-healthcare-workers
https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/03/26/world/asia/26reuters-health-coronavirus-australia-vaccine.html
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.24.20042937v1
Any thoughts? should we incude them into article?
Ckfasdf (
talk)
00:46, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
For deaths, confirmed cases, and recoveries should be used more. Have started using this one {{ Cases in 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic}}. We need the ability for rounded numbers to appear here aswell. Have asked User:Waddie96 who built it. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 02:45, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
Well we have the total at the above template. In my opinion it would be useful to have similar templates for each country. Others thoughts? Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 17:56, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
Just FYI, for people interested in Wikidata: wikidata:Wikidata:WikiProject COVID-19 --- Another Believer ( Talk) 20:58, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
Related: commons:Category:WikiProject COVID-19 --- Another Believer ( Talk) 17:44, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
At the request of Another Believer, I'm transcluding the Tree of Life Newsletter for this month, which features a story about WikiProject COVID-19. Enwebb ( talk) 20:54, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
Argentinosaurus by
Slate Weasel and
Jens Lallensack |
Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations by
Britishfinance |
News at a glance |
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A new WikiProject responding to the pandemic | ||
The newest Tree of Life WikiProject is about a taxon that is dominating the headlines, Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, and its many effects. We interviewed Another Believer, the founder of WikiProject COVID-19. This interview has been edited for length. Find the full interview here.
Number of participants of WikiProject Covid-19
Thank you to Another Believer for your time, both in this interview and in this project. Interested readers can join WikiProject COVID-19. And please stay safe and healthy out there. -- Awkwafaba |
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Hello all ! The news cycle is now full speed on makers, hackers, DIY, open source ventilators & co. If you want a snapshot on this issue, this feature video ("'Health Care Kamikazes': How Spain's Workers Are Battling Coronavirus, Unprotected") by The New York Times is as good and quick as you can get ! That's what we document. In past week 60+ sources were integrated into that article but this shortage/DIY topic is now a in the spotlight of news agencies, so we need more people to scan the news on this shortages and solutions matter and help improve and expand that article. Please help as you can, "one statement-sentence with its source" at a time is a great contribution ! Best, Yug (talk) 19:30, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
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A lot of info for a lot of different articles. Very interesting.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-Europe-estimates-and-NPI-impact-30-03-2020.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gtoffoletto ( talk • contribs) 09:14, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
Mostly relates to transmission modelling. Reproduction numbers and impact of interventions. Current estimation of infected and other related arguments across 11 EU countries.
Example of important info:
Population infected by country | ||||||
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ICCRT's model projection for March 28 [1] | WHO lab-confirmed March 29 | |||||
Country | Population [2] | Infected
(95% range) |
Infected
(mean %) |
Cases
(est.) |
Cases | Detected
(% of pop.) |
Austria | 8,999,973 | 0.36%-3.1% | 1.1% | 99000 | 8291 | 0.09% |
Belgium | 11,579,502 | 1.3%-9.7% | 3.7% | 428400 | 9134 | 0.08% |
Denmark | 5,785,741 | 0.40%-3.1% | 1.1% | 63600 | 2201 | 0.04% |
France | 65,227,357 | 1.1%-7.4% | 3.0% | 1956800 | 37145 | 0.06% |
Germany | 83,792,987 | 0.28%-1.8% | 0.72% | 603300 | 52547 | 0.06% |
Italy | 60,496,082 | 3.2%-26% | 9.8% | 5928600 | 92472 | 0.15% |
Norway | 5,407,670 | 0.09%-1.2% | 0.41% | 22200 | 3845 | 0.07% |
Spain | 46,767,543 | 3.7%-41% | 15% | 7015100 | 72248 | 0.15% |
Sweden | 10,081,948 | 0.85%-8.4% | 3.1% | 312500 | 3447 | 0.03% |
Switzerland | 8,637,694 | 1.3%-7.6% | 3.2% | 276400 | 13152 | 0.15% |
United Kingdom | 67,803,450 | 1.2%-5.4% | 2.7% | 1830700 | 17093 | 0.03% |
Note: WHO reporting laboratory-confirmed cases on March 29, 10am Central European Time. |
-- Gtoffoletto ( talk) 09:52, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
References
:1
was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).{{
Current COVID}}
I have created a custom version of {{
Current}}
. Please feel free to improve. If there are no objections I'll apply it in place of {{
Current}}
to COVID related articles.
All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable)
14:19, 2 April 2020 (UTC).
This article documents a
current event. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses, and initial news reports may be
unreliable. The
latest updates to this article
may not reflect the most current information. |
This article is about a
current pandemic where information can
change quickly or be unreliable. The
latest page updates
may not reflect the most up-to-date information. |
This article is about a
current 2020 COVID-19 pandemic where information can
change quickly or be unreliable. The
latest page updates
may not reflect the most up-to-date information. |
Yug (talk) 18:06, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
{{
Current disaster}}
as of last night were COVID related. So it's not a case of the tail wagging the dog.It strikes me that, as a general rule, " Coronavirus impact on X" is a lot less unweildy sort of title than " Impact of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic on X", for most of the specialized subject articles.-- Pharos ( talk) 17:12, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
This discussion should be merged with above discussion here: COVID-19 or Coronavirus disease 2019? -- Gtoffoletto ( talk) 11:49, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
For article names
WP:COMMONNAME is unambiguous, we should be using COVID-19 for the disease, so "
COVID-19 pandemic" would seem reasonable. There's no need to disambiguate by year. (I prefer the all caps, but may remain neutral on any discussion on that.) All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable)
13:27, 3 April 2020 (UTC).
Many of our articles, especially on COVID-19 topics, are long and complex. We have readers who will struggle to understand them, for whom the simple.Wikipedia is a better resource.
We should of course, be checking that articles there are of good quality, reliable, and up-to-date.
I have made {{ Simple}} as a hat-note template for such articles. I hope we can agree that it should be used.
It needs improvements, to pick up links automatically from Wikidata, and perhaps to be more prominent. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:30, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
See the Hubei COVID-19 talk page for Time and Telegraph references. The Telegraph reference would imply that Wuhan is getting close to herd immunity and that the official figures are more or less nonsense. Boud ( talk) 01:40, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
Important WHO update on their stance here. We should probably update sources based on this report (see "Subject in focus").
Of note the fact that references to "coughing" or "sneezing" are absent. -- Gtoffoletto ( talk) 14:57, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
Highlights:
Clear shift here in language. Probably explains why the guidelines on mask use are changing -- Gtoffoletto ( talk) 15:04, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
These are sources that tell us what is going on, though I realize we're looking for WP:MEDRS. What can be done in the various articles on this topic?
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article241498231.html https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/coronavirus/article241498861.html https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article241638786.html https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article241724531.html
And I've already asked whether any of the articles mention convalescent serum:
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/article241461011.html — Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 15:45, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi all – wanted to give you a heads up that Google is using several template pages (as of this writing, Template:2019–20_coronavirus_pandemic_data/United_States_medical_cases_by_state and Template:2019–20_coronavirus_pandemic_data) to create a statistics table/visualization that appears at the top of Google search results for COVID-related terms. You can see a screenshot of this to the right or see it in action by Googling "covid," "corona," "coronavirus," etc. This isn't a formal partnership between the Wikimedia Foundation and Google (Google made the decision to use this data on their own), but we're communicating about the feature and their upcoming plans for it. As the community gathers more granular stats on cases, deaths, and recoveries, Google is interested in potentially making use of these additional pages to expand the feature.
I'm going to cross-post this notice to the talk pages of the relevant templates, and I'm watching this page and other COVID content via my volunteer account. If there's a new discussion about moving, deleting, or making major changes to the structure of these templates, I'd super appreciate a quick ping either to this account or my volunteer one so I can let the folks at Google know and they can adjust where the feature points accordingly.
If you have any questions about this, please let me know! MPinchuk (WMF) ( talk) 15:14, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
At
2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, the stable (albeit pretty much undiscussed, as far as I can tell) consensus seems to be not to use {{
Current}}
, but it still appears at many sub-articles for individual countries. The guidelines at the template seem to discourage long-term use, but the de facto practice seems otherwise, and for some of the lesser-trafficked pages, I could see an argument for a strong prominent disclaimer that contents may be out of date. Regardless, we should strive for consistency, so: should we use {{
Current}}
on pretty much all of the COVID-19 pages, on some of them (as decided by some criteria we could formulate here, or just ad hoc), or on basically none of them?
Sdkb (
talk)
02:40, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
Current tag Merged from duplicate discussion by Sdkb ( talk) at 18:35, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
Why articles about coronavirus pandemic in countries don't have {{current}} tag?-- SharʿabSalam▼ ( talk) 10:27, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
The template's reason has become muddy over the years. This is one reason a separate template might be useful, which we can modify as we see fit. There are a few messages in the template, mostly addressed to readers, although the template documentation says that it is targeted at editors:
It's not clear that all are appropriate in our use cases.
In 2009 the template was:
This article documents a
current event. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses. |
This had the advantages of a) Clarity for the reader and b) Clarity for the editor. It was typically applied to a breaking news and for a day or so.
I have created a custom template, {{
Current COVID}}
which, should we so desire, can be edited to fulfil the exact requirements for this project. Please feel free to edit this template. I would urge that editors prefer simplicity to features.
All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable)
12:33, 3 April 2020 (UTC).
{{
Current}}
, though if you wish to start that process off by all means do so. When you have completed it we can merge back. All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable)
21:02, 3 April 2020 (UTC).Do we have info in any countries apart from Poland - maybe those with big Catholic church political influence - where lockdown measures will be loosened on 12 April/Easter? We know about Shincheonji and the Christian Open Door Church that were responsible for big launches of infection rates. In Poland, the 31 March 2020 government regulation, published in Dziennik Ustaw, allows religious events and burials to jump up from their present maximum of (5+religious/funeral personnel) during 1-11 April, up to 50 maximum in total starting from 12 April 2020. The regulation says nothing about Easter, but that's the obvious motivation. There's no time limit on the loosened constraint.
If there are other countries that are planning to loosen lockdown-type conditions "for Easter" it might be useful to put this info together, since this is a pandemic management policy quite distinct from the standard ones, which is likely to accelerate the lab-confirmed cases curves. Boud ( talk) 00:49, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
The obscure drug Tetrandrine has been mentioned in the media as a possible treatment to prevent mild cases from progressing to ARDS. The stubby article needs attention. Abductive ( reasoning) 05:01, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
I am concerned about infoboxes becoming dated and very, very quickly. There is a field in {{ Infobox pandemic}} called "date" and I believe it is used to provide an "as of" date. I propose using {{ as of}} in the date parameter and adding the currently-updated date to all instances of "Infobox pandemic" in the hope that those who update the infobox will consistently update the date (yeah, right.) Elizium23 ( talk) 16:06, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
So, this my question / idea is similar to "Charity", however it encompasses a broader range. If a Category or Page(s) already exist with this information, I do apologize, as I wasn't able to find one. Anywho, onto my brainstorming...
Either creating its own sub-cat within the COVID-19 Portal or adding portals within geographic locations with lists of resources available to citizens within each community. For example:
Then, each page would have resources divided into sections by type; i.e. Household Supplies; Food Donations; Childcare; Education, etc. Alternatively, there could be lists of resources by topic > location, instead:
Something to that effect, anyway. AbeautyfulMess06 ( talk) 22:07, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
There were 2 projects for responding to the risk of H5N1 influenza pandemic in 2006. They might be useful for the Wikipedia page for Pandemic and/or this WikiProject.
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Hello!
The title for state articles follows the following paradigm 2020 coronavirus pandemic in State. Maybe it should be epidemic? Since from an individual point of view it's an epidemic, the term pandemic is from a global point of view. Or maybe we should use pandemic so as to explain what the effects of the pandemic were in every specific state? Has there been any discussion on this detail? - Klein Muçi ( talk) 19:54, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
..."pandemic" in article titles should be taken to mean "the 2020 coronavirus pandemic as it affects this area". Yeah, I understand that. That's what I meant when I said Or maybe we should use pandemic so as to explain what the effects of the pandemic were in every specific state?. And yes, I do think a FAQ would be a good idea. Before making this question I was looking for something similar to a disclaimer that dealt with this semantic problem but given that I didn't find it...
Well then, I guess that settles it. We too we'll go for pandemic in SqWiki. Thank you all for your thoughts! :) - Klein Muçi ( talk) 02:29, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
There are article's about travel restrictions and the pandemic's impact on aviation, but we might consider expanding Impact of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic on public transport to focus on the impact to global public transport systems. Currently collecting sources here. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 14:37, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
Open-source ventilator, high or top priority article right now. Carl Fredrik talk 09:24, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
I see an editor add mention of Wikidata's WikiProject COVID-19 to the task forces section. Maybe we should turn the "Task forces" section into "Task forces and related COVID-19 projects" and provide a list of task forces here at WPCOVID at English Wikipedia, followed by an overview of WikiProject COVID-19s at Wikipedia of other languages + other Wikimedia projects? Seems helpful to clarify which are specifically task forces under the umbrella of this WikiProject, and which are related but not hosted at English Wikipedia... Thoughts? --- Another Believer ( Talk) 16:31, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
Is there a list of requested articles for this WikiProject? I feel that such a page could be particularly useful for such a fast-developing topic, and have a few ideas I would add myself.-- Pharos ( talk) 16:54, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
Just saw this posted on reddit and this may come in handy: [1]. Juxlos ( talk) 19:00, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The SARS-CoV-2 virus has 29,903 bases, so what is its genome size in picograms? Furthermore, are there any estimates of how much mass is has now in the global aggregate? Thanks. kencf0618 ( talk) 17:48, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
I am new here, and I don't know much about making a new page, yet. Can someone help start this page for me? I would like to see a new page created, on the subject of: Companies which have stepped up and offered assistance during this crisis. I have a collection of links, which tell about anecdotes, but there is a lot more. I want to see these companies acknowledged for the good they are doing; and it might encourage other companies to contribute as well. Here is a link to one article, which details 50 companies which have assisted already: https://www.forbes.com/sites/blakemorgan/2020/03/17/50-ways-companies-are-giving-back-during-the-corona-pandemic/#703c5e2c4723. Also, I have heard about celebrities like Arnold Schwarzenegger who have donated millions to charities. I was going to call the page: " Those Who Helped."
Thank you, Ron Meyer — Preceding unsigned comment added by Javacertified5000 ( talk • contribs) 12:07, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
As discussed on dewp, their pageview stats deviate from usual patterns since school closures and other social distancing measures went into effect in the German-speaking world around March 16. This prompted me to check some other wikis as well, most of which show similar anomalies over recent weeks. Has anyone looked into this in detail yet? -- Daniel Mietchen ( talk) 01:35, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
Shouldn’t there be a task force for preventing misinformation and vandalism on articles related to the Covid-19 virus? Rodrigo Valequez( 🗣) 21:51, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering if I could get 4-5 active members of this Project to participate in an interview for the Signpost WikiProject Report which I put together. If so, please ping me here and we can get connected! Thanks, Puddleglum 2.0( How's my driving?) 05:17, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
The page with questions is here. Username 6892 15:47, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
@ Tenryuu: Hello again, I was wondering if you could ping a couple editors you know are active here and you think might be interested. My writing deadline is coming up, but I don't know which members are active and would be good for an interview. Thanks, Puddleglum 2.0( How's my driving?) 17:05, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
Actually just looked and realized that two more people answered without notifying! =D I'm open for one more person if you can think of one, but I have the minimum now. Thank you all for your cooperation! Puddleglum 2.0( How's my driving?) 17:10, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
Update:
Puddleglum2.0 has accepted answers and closed requests for more contributors. Currently undergoing the rest of the drafting process. --
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Result: The column has been completed and can be found at this here. Many thanks to Puddleglum2.0! Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝) 05:27, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
Shouldn't there be a category for Category: Organizations disestablshed due to the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic or somesuch? Several businesses have already shuttered, or will soon, and won't be coming back. -- 65.94.170.207 ( talk) 18:45, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
Hello! Can someone take a look to this? Talk:Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome_coronavirus_2#SARS-CoV2_life_cycle_diagram - Theklan ( talk) 10:57, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
I am currently translating the Chinese provincial articles, and the lack of automatic machine translation makes the process unnecessarily awfully difficult. The difficulty comes from a) the fact that most of the articles contain heavily technical, formulaic, and repetitive language (hence machine translation reliably gets the technical terms and most of the syntax right and reliably fails at known places that can be easily fixed in batches) that is also intermixed with various Wikitexts such as citations and links; and b) tables with such Wikitexts (it is absolutely ridiculous to spend so much time just to manually retype and format every single district or city name link (bonus pain if they are repeated as in the Shanghai article), which Wikipedia takes care of by itself if you allow machine translation, as I have experienced translating from English to Chinese). The lack of automatic machine translation is the reason why I have eight articles in draft that I have barely touched. Because of the language issue, it is both impractically unfeasible as well as less accurate for me to manually translate the content. The ability to work with a semi-ready bulk of Wikitext will be extremely helpful for me. Rethliopuks ( talk) 18:31, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
As the H1N1 flu is slowly ending it season, can we start plotting the pneumonia deaths on our graphs ? Something like this : https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/mortality.html ? So people can have a better grasp off the situation ? Iluvalar ( talk) 19:55, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
Does the scope of this project include all BLPs whose subjects have died of the disease? Does it also include all BLPs whose subjects have been infected and/or recovered? Elizium23 ( talk) 08:06, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
Is there a previously agreed-upon consensus on whether to apply the WikiProject COVID-19 talk page template on articles that are not directly about COVID-19 but are impacted by it? By which I mean individuals who have died from the disease, sports seasons that have been shortened or cancelled due to it, etc.? — Hunter Kahn 13:11, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
Considering March itself ended up with a page over the size of the page covering the pandemic, are we splitting April? Both February and March have been incredibly long to the point of needing to split them, is it safe to assume that April will be the same? QueerFilmNerd talk 21:23, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
Indefinite Extended-confirmed-protection required for Template:2019–20 coronavirus pandemic data. It seems that protection is expired. Lot of vandalism has started. Thank you. Amkgp ( talk) 13:25, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
Please, can we add extended protection to Template:2019–20 coronavirus pandemic data? At an average of 1 edit per 3.6 minutes, it is already a lot of work to keep this updated and prevent unsourced changes, and now we have to deal with reversion of more edits from anonymous and newbies... -- MarioGom ( talk) 13:53, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
This county-by-county map hasn't been updated since March 27th. I put in a request over on Commons to the last editor who edited it but no response yet. Could someone please update it? I have no idea how, the stats are here: dhhr.gov website. Thanks, Shearonink ( talk) 20:04, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi all,
just in case you need photos of a mobile testing station and/or a person being tested on COVID–19: My fellow Wikipedia colleague
Raymond took a couple of great photos during the inauguration/presentation to the public. They're available in this
Commons category. Best regards, --
Jcornelius (
talk)
19:47, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
As more discussion targets the presence of
risk factors or cases and deaths belonging to "risk-groups", there is need to improve the our article on the topic. There has been a significnt uptick in views since the 16/3
[2].
Carl Fredrik
talk
09:24, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
New article: Impact of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic on the cannabis industry --- Another Believer ( Talk) 12:55, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
Subcategories of Category:April 2020 events will soon be applicable to many COVID-related articles. Just a heads up, if any project members care to work on articles for a select region when the time comes. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 20:38, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
At time of writing, Timeline of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in March 2020 has so many template transclusions that Template:reflist will not expand, and citations can only be checked inside the edit window. Timeline of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in February 2020 is in better condition but still a member of Category:Pages where template include size is exceeded.
Both articles have existing split discussions, at Talk:Timeline of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in February 2020#Splitting proposal, Talk:Timeline of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in March 2020#Templates not showing up, and Talk:Timeline of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in March 2020#Reference fix. However this project talk page seems to be much higher-traffic, and the project covers both existing too-large Timeline articles as well as any future monthly Timeline articles, so I'm tryna centralise our discussion here.
Be it hereby proposed that the Pandemic chronology sections of both the February and March Timeline articles be split out into standalone articles. This will reduce template transclusions on the February Timeline article by over 400, and reduce transclusions on the March article by over 600. For the new article titles I suggest Case chronology of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in February 2020 and Case chronology of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in March 2020, but I'm sure there's a guideline or MOS entry somewhere that has clearer guidance for a title. We can also discuss splitting out the Mainland China section of the February article and/or merging the Mainland China section of the March article, but my point is we should do a split soon, so readers can check our references per WP:V and all.
Pinging prior discussion participants @ Aceing Winter Snows Harsh Cold, Tenryuu, Bondegezou, Username6892, 73.121.138.28, 72.209.60.95, Onetwothreeip, Randy Kryn, Bait30, Alucard 16, Moxy, TheGreatSG'rean, and Elishop:.
[[2020 coronavirus pandemic in ____]]
articles started up (as seen from the many articles created in that format for many US states). I think template use can be further reduced by linking to the articles that talk about those areas. If we want to still create a separate page for that I'm all for it. --
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BEANS X3
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13:42, 19 March 2020 (UTC)Since it seems there is unlikely to be someone who disagrees with a split, how do we wish to split the page? By date? Inside/outside mainland china would not work (as is suggested on the February timeline). If wanted, we can move this discussion to the itself. QueerFilmNerd talk 00:34, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
A simple way forward would be a split by calender week with a monthly article sumarizing and linking to the individual weeks. Agathoclea ( talk) 08:52, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
Result: The March timeline has been split into Chronology of the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic in March 2020 and Responses to the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic in March 2020. -- Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝) 15:42, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
Do we have any systematic info on which governments are following the WHO recommendation of using both U07.1 and U07.2 for ICD-10 cause-of-death codes? The PL medical agency is using only U07.1, so this keeps the COVID-19 death rate a lot lower than it would under if both U07.1 and U07.2 were used.
There's also a question of where this information would be useful, if we had it available systematically. Coronavirus disease 2019 seems a bit too focussed on the disease "in general" rather than the pandemic; the choice of health authorities to use either only U07.1 or both (or only U07.2 in countries with no tests available at all?) is related to the pandemic, rather than the "disease itself". Any suggestions of pages are welcome, in case this info becomes available. Boud ( talk) 00:35, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
What's up with the Highlighted open discussions / Current consensus section at the top of this page?
Does this serve a purpose? Is this an archiving error? Should we delete? --- Another Believer ( Talk) 13:37, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
In general, is it okay to remove paragraphs like "On March 19, there were # new cases. On March 20, there were # new cases, bringing the total up to #. On March 21...", which essentially duplicate the charts in a less readable manner, from timeline sections? There are a lot of articles that have paragraphs like that. -- Yair rand ( talk) 23:39, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
https://www.mcri.edu.au/news/murdoch-children%E2%80%99s-research-institute-trial-preventative-vaccine-covid-19-healthcare-workers
https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/03/26/world/asia/26reuters-health-coronavirus-australia-vaccine.html
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.24.20042937v1
Any thoughts? should we incude them into article?
Ckfasdf (
talk)
00:46, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
For deaths, confirmed cases, and recoveries should be used more. Have started using this one {{ Cases in 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic}}. We need the ability for rounded numbers to appear here aswell. Have asked User:Waddie96 who built it. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 02:45, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
Well we have the total at the above template. In my opinion it would be useful to have similar templates for each country. Others thoughts? Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 17:56, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
Just FYI, for people interested in Wikidata: wikidata:Wikidata:WikiProject COVID-19 --- Another Believer ( Talk) 20:58, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
Related: commons:Category:WikiProject COVID-19 --- Another Believer ( Talk) 17:44, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
At the request of Another Believer, I'm transcluding the Tree of Life Newsletter for this month, which features a story about WikiProject COVID-19. Enwebb ( talk) 20:54, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
Argentinosaurus by
Slate Weasel and
Jens Lallensack |
Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations by
Britishfinance |
News at a glance |
|
A new WikiProject responding to the pandemic | ||
The newest Tree of Life WikiProject is about a taxon that is dominating the headlines, Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, and its many effects. We interviewed Another Believer, the founder of WikiProject COVID-19. This interview has been edited for length. Find the full interview here.
Number of participants of WikiProject Covid-19
Thank you to Another Believer for your time, both in this interview and in this project. Interested readers can join WikiProject COVID-19. And please stay safe and healthy out there. -- Awkwafaba |
March DYKs |
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Hello all ! The news cycle is now full speed on makers, hackers, DIY, open source ventilators & co. If you want a snapshot on this issue, this feature video ("'Health Care Kamikazes': How Spain's Workers Are Battling Coronavirus, Unprotected") by The New York Times is as good and quick as you can get ! That's what we document. In past week 60+ sources were integrated into that article but this shortage/DIY topic is now a in the spotlight of news agencies, so we need more people to scan the news on this shortages and solutions matter and help improve and expand that article. Please help as you can, "one statement-sentence with its source" at a time is a great contribution ! Best, Yug (talk) 19:30, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
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A lot of info for a lot of different articles. Very interesting.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-Europe-estimates-and-NPI-impact-30-03-2020.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gtoffoletto ( talk • contribs) 09:14, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
Mostly relates to transmission modelling. Reproduction numbers and impact of interventions. Current estimation of infected and other related arguments across 11 EU countries.
Example of important info:
Population infected by country | ||||||
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ICCRT's model projection for March 28 [1] | WHO lab-confirmed March 29 | |||||
Country | Population [2] | Infected
(95% range) |
Infected
(mean %) |
Cases
(est.) |
Cases | Detected
(% of pop.) |
Austria | 8,999,973 | 0.36%-3.1% | 1.1% | 99000 | 8291 | 0.09% |
Belgium | 11,579,502 | 1.3%-9.7% | 3.7% | 428400 | 9134 | 0.08% |
Denmark | 5,785,741 | 0.40%-3.1% | 1.1% | 63600 | 2201 | 0.04% |
France | 65,227,357 | 1.1%-7.4% | 3.0% | 1956800 | 37145 | 0.06% |
Germany | 83,792,987 | 0.28%-1.8% | 0.72% | 603300 | 52547 | 0.06% |
Italy | 60,496,082 | 3.2%-26% | 9.8% | 5928600 | 92472 | 0.15% |
Norway | 5,407,670 | 0.09%-1.2% | 0.41% | 22200 | 3845 | 0.07% |
Spain | 46,767,543 | 3.7%-41% | 15% | 7015100 | 72248 | 0.15% |
Sweden | 10,081,948 | 0.85%-8.4% | 3.1% | 312500 | 3447 | 0.03% |
Switzerland | 8,637,694 | 1.3%-7.6% | 3.2% | 276400 | 13152 | 0.15% |
United Kingdom | 67,803,450 | 1.2%-5.4% | 2.7% | 1830700 | 17093 | 0.03% |
Note: WHO reporting laboratory-confirmed cases on March 29, 10am Central European Time. |
-- Gtoffoletto ( talk) 09:52, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
References
:1
was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).{{
Current COVID}}
I have created a custom version of {{
Current}}
. Please feel free to improve. If there are no objections I'll apply it in place of {{
Current}}
to COVID related articles.
All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable)
14:19, 2 April 2020 (UTC).
This article documents a
current event. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses, and initial news reports may be
unreliable. The
latest updates to this article
may not reflect the most current information. |
This article is about a
current pandemic where information can
change quickly or be unreliable. The
latest page updates
may not reflect the most up-to-date information. |
This article is about a
current 2020 COVID-19 pandemic where information can
change quickly or be unreliable. The
latest page updates
may not reflect the most up-to-date information. |
Yug (talk) 18:06, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
{{
Current disaster}}
as of last night were COVID related. So it's not a case of the tail wagging the dog.It strikes me that, as a general rule, " Coronavirus impact on X" is a lot less unweildy sort of title than " Impact of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic on X", for most of the specialized subject articles.-- Pharos ( talk) 17:12, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
This discussion should be merged with above discussion here: COVID-19 or Coronavirus disease 2019? -- Gtoffoletto ( talk) 11:49, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
For article names
WP:COMMONNAME is unambiguous, we should be using COVID-19 for the disease, so "
COVID-19 pandemic" would seem reasonable. There's no need to disambiguate by year. (I prefer the all caps, but may remain neutral on any discussion on that.) All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable)
13:27, 3 April 2020 (UTC).
Many of our articles, especially on COVID-19 topics, are long and complex. We have readers who will struggle to understand them, for whom the simple.Wikipedia is a better resource.
We should of course, be checking that articles there are of good quality, reliable, and up-to-date.
I have made {{ Simple}} as a hat-note template for such articles. I hope we can agree that it should be used.
It needs improvements, to pick up links automatically from Wikidata, and perhaps to be more prominent. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:30, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
See the Hubei COVID-19 talk page for Time and Telegraph references. The Telegraph reference would imply that Wuhan is getting close to herd immunity and that the official figures are more or less nonsense. Boud ( talk) 01:40, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
Important WHO update on their stance here. We should probably update sources based on this report (see "Subject in focus").
Of note the fact that references to "coughing" or "sneezing" are absent. -- Gtoffoletto ( talk) 14:57, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
Highlights:
Clear shift here in language. Probably explains why the guidelines on mask use are changing -- Gtoffoletto ( talk) 15:04, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
These are sources that tell us what is going on, though I realize we're looking for WP:MEDRS. What can be done in the various articles on this topic?
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article241498231.html https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/coronavirus/article241498861.html https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article241638786.html https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article241724531.html
And I've already asked whether any of the articles mention convalescent serum:
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/article241461011.html — Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 15:45, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi all – wanted to give you a heads up that Google is using several template pages (as of this writing, Template:2019–20_coronavirus_pandemic_data/United_States_medical_cases_by_state and Template:2019–20_coronavirus_pandemic_data) to create a statistics table/visualization that appears at the top of Google search results for COVID-related terms. You can see a screenshot of this to the right or see it in action by Googling "covid," "corona," "coronavirus," etc. This isn't a formal partnership between the Wikimedia Foundation and Google (Google made the decision to use this data on their own), but we're communicating about the feature and their upcoming plans for it. As the community gathers more granular stats on cases, deaths, and recoveries, Google is interested in potentially making use of these additional pages to expand the feature.
I'm going to cross-post this notice to the talk pages of the relevant templates, and I'm watching this page and other COVID content via my volunteer account. If there's a new discussion about moving, deleting, or making major changes to the structure of these templates, I'd super appreciate a quick ping either to this account or my volunteer one so I can let the folks at Google know and they can adjust where the feature points accordingly.
If you have any questions about this, please let me know! MPinchuk (WMF) ( talk) 15:14, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
At
2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, the stable (albeit pretty much undiscussed, as far as I can tell) consensus seems to be not to use {{
Current}}
, but it still appears at many sub-articles for individual countries. The guidelines at the template seem to discourage long-term use, but the de facto practice seems otherwise, and for some of the lesser-trafficked pages, I could see an argument for a strong prominent disclaimer that contents may be out of date. Regardless, we should strive for consistency, so: should we use {{
Current}}
on pretty much all of the COVID-19 pages, on some of them (as decided by some criteria we could formulate here, or just ad hoc), or on basically none of them?
Sdkb (
talk)
02:40, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
Current tag Merged from duplicate discussion by Sdkb ( talk) at 18:35, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
Why articles about coronavirus pandemic in countries don't have {{current}} tag?-- SharʿabSalam▼ ( talk) 10:27, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
The template's reason has become muddy over the years. This is one reason a separate template might be useful, which we can modify as we see fit. There are a few messages in the template, mostly addressed to readers, although the template documentation says that it is targeted at editors:
It's not clear that all are appropriate in our use cases.
In 2009 the template was:
This article documents a
current event. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses. |
This had the advantages of a) Clarity for the reader and b) Clarity for the editor. It was typically applied to a breaking news and for a day or so.
I have created a custom template, {{
Current COVID}}
which, should we so desire, can be edited to fulfil the exact requirements for this project. Please feel free to edit this template. I would urge that editors prefer simplicity to features.
All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable)
12:33, 3 April 2020 (UTC).
{{
Current}}
, though if you wish to start that process off by all means do so. When you have completed it we can merge back. All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable)
21:02, 3 April 2020 (UTC).Do we have info in any countries apart from Poland - maybe those with big Catholic church political influence - where lockdown measures will be loosened on 12 April/Easter? We know about Shincheonji and the Christian Open Door Church that were responsible for big launches of infection rates. In Poland, the 31 March 2020 government regulation, published in Dziennik Ustaw, allows religious events and burials to jump up from their present maximum of (5+religious/funeral personnel) during 1-11 April, up to 50 maximum in total starting from 12 April 2020. The regulation says nothing about Easter, but that's the obvious motivation. There's no time limit on the loosened constraint.
If there are other countries that are planning to loosen lockdown-type conditions "for Easter" it might be useful to put this info together, since this is a pandemic management policy quite distinct from the standard ones, which is likely to accelerate the lab-confirmed cases curves. Boud ( talk) 00:49, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
The obscure drug Tetrandrine has been mentioned in the media as a possible treatment to prevent mild cases from progressing to ARDS. The stubby article needs attention. Abductive ( reasoning) 05:01, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
I am concerned about infoboxes becoming dated and very, very quickly. There is a field in {{ Infobox pandemic}} called "date" and I believe it is used to provide an "as of" date. I propose using {{ as of}} in the date parameter and adding the currently-updated date to all instances of "Infobox pandemic" in the hope that those who update the infobox will consistently update the date (yeah, right.) Elizium23 ( talk) 16:06, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
So, this my question / idea is similar to "Charity", however it encompasses a broader range. If a Category or Page(s) already exist with this information, I do apologize, as I wasn't able to find one. Anywho, onto my brainstorming...
Either creating its own sub-cat within the COVID-19 Portal or adding portals within geographic locations with lists of resources available to citizens within each community. For example:
Then, each page would have resources divided into sections by type; i.e. Household Supplies; Food Donations; Childcare; Education, etc. Alternatively, there could be lists of resources by topic > location, instead:
Something to that effect, anyway. AbeautyfulMess06 ( talk) 22:07, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
There were 2 projects for responding to the risk of H5N1 influenza pandemic in 2006. They might be useful for the Wikipedia page for Pandemic and/or this WikiProject.