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Do we have a section or article for generic pre-2019 coronavirus-like pandemic predictions? There are quite a few references to CIA and French security services warning Western governments that a pandemic more or less like the one happening now was reasonably likely on a decade-or-so time scale, especially post- SARS. E.g. in French this toot (archive) with a scan of a Canard enchaîné article: CIA Sep 2005 to Obama; July 2008 White paper on security and national defence in France - pandemic in the coming 15 years (quite accurate); 2013, equivalent French White paper; Dec 2017, Defence Ministry strategic review of defence and national security, France, risk of a new virus crossing the species boundary. (The toot itself is not a source - it's online social media, but there's enough info in there to trace the sources.) Boud ( talk) 01:05, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
I found an article by The Guardian discussing the coronavirus's impact on animals especially zoos. I wasn't sure if it would be useful as a source and if so where to put it. Any thoughts on this? Sakura Cartelet Talk 00:48, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
The number of edits on enwiki rose 9.27% from February to March. Darylgolden( talk) Ping when replying 09:28, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
I thought that members of this WikiProject would like to be notified about the recently created article Face masks during the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. It could use some other editors giving it a look. MarkZusab ( talk) 00:35, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
Are we covering this bit of scandal? [3] Jim.henderson ( talk) 17:19, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
So North Korea is still claiming, implausibly, that they have no cases. As there become fewer and fewer countries without cases, they stick out more and more in a misleading way. Our world map of cases per capita (our most important map, since it appears at the top of the main pandemic article infobox) currently has a "no cases or no data" color which merges the two distinct categories together. I recently proposed that we add a "suspected cases" color, as is done at File:COVID-19 Outbreak Cases in Asia.svg, but the map's creator, Raphaël Dunant, brought up very valid concerns that this could open up a can of worms if we don't agree on what precisely is needed for there to be a "suspected case". How should we handle this? {{u| Sdkb}} talk 18:40, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
information blackout. There are plenty of official updates. However, some media outlets dispute these updates and claim that the government of DPRK is lying. -- MarioGom ( talk) 18:48, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
re
Sdkb about DPRK data being implausible
, I definitely do not agree with that. Whether it is true or not, it seems plausible: the most hermetic country in the world, which closed the country to foreign tourists and started quarantine measures as early as January... well, if it is plausible to prevent importing cases in any country, that's probably North Korea (or some remote island in the Pacific). --
MarioGom (
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19:11, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Template talk:2019–20 coronavirus pandemic sidebar#List of hospitals. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 21:46, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
I invite project members to help expand Impact of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic on public transport.
Stay safe, --- Another Believer ( Talk) 20:23, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
If anyone's interested, there's a current discussion over animated graphs at Talk:2019-20 coronavirus pandemic#Epidemic curve graphics. — Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 06:55, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
There are at least four parallel software projects for smartphone/bluetooth/tracing software that aims to protect privacy:
and there is a bunch of declarations of how the software should protect privacy, and how government agencies should be constrained in their practical and legal management in relation to the software:
The Singapore software is already implemented en masse, it seems to me (I haven't checked this), so this is not crystalballing in terms of being already on people's phones, even though most of the projects are still in the development phase, it seems to me. The above projects/protocols all claim to be free-licensed and aim at privacy protection, so they are likely to develop rapidly (though hosting at github blocks/bans readers in Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria). Tech media reports on these projects should provide material for an article such as Pandemic phone-tracing software. Right now this would be COVID-19 related, but in the long term, would be valid for other pandemics.
The privacy issue would also be a core issue of the article, since Google/Apple, well-known for their massive privacy violations and totalitarian tracking of the world's population, are getting involved, and governments around the world would very likely be happy to have detailed tracking of the movements of 7 billion people for controlling dissidence, street demonstrations and other forms of spatial-location-linked political opposition.
Any better proposals for a name? The hyphen in Pandemic phone-tracing software is to distinguish Pandemic-phone tracing software (whatever that might mean) from Pandemic phone-tracing software. Boud ( talk) 14:54, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
Looks like the systemic impact of COVID-19 has been greatly underestimated.
I have many anecdotal reports (from Italy) of serious cardiovascular effects but very little has been published so far (see [5]). Some studies are about to come out and I will share them as soon as they do (based on autopsies and angiographies). There are reports of a lot of amputations of extremities, severe vasculitis and thrombosis, especially in fatal cases. They are trying heparin on patients now [6].
Will share if anything published comes up. Should be soon. Has anybody read anything on this that we can use to update the various articles? The nature review above is already included in COVID-19 but only marginally.
-- Gtoffoletto ( talk) 15:11, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
I am requesting someone to either improve Community spread / Community transmission section or start an article on the topic. Thanks. Epiphyllumlover ( talk) 01:19, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
Howdy all, and thanks for getting this project together! As a member of WikiProject Stub sorting, I'm concerned about the creation of a stub template and stub category ({{ COVID-19-stub}} / Category:COVID-19 stubs) for articles related to the coronavirus. It was not discussed at the WPSS proposals page, and in many cases it seems to be applied to articles about subjects which are not specifically about the virus. I would like to respectfully suggest that the COVID-19 project use the "stub-class" method to tag the talk pages of relevant articles. Please come discuss this at the WPSS talk page if you are interested. Her Pegship ( I'm listening) 02:25, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
Aprl 2, Myanmar Army showed and announce their camps to facility quarantine 15000 persons in Naypidaw and 2000 persons in Yangon comeback from other country.
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In April 6, The Committee for Corona Virus Disease 19 (COVID-19)of Myanmar announce to supply foods - rice and 5 items to all irregular income family and reduce 150 electrical units-charge supplying to all households. Myanmar Army announce to donate their one month salary including General Min Aung Hlaing salary to use for Covid-19 Prevent,Control and Curing
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In April 6,Mandalay Mayor restrict Transportation Express car not to enter to Mandaylay - which is to reduce Coronavirus spreading. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saitunzaw ( talk • contribs) 11:55, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
2019–20 coronavirus pandemic on social media is being edited as part of an educational assignment. Improvements and talk page feedback are welcome. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 14:25, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
Thanks to the many editors who have contributed to this project. One month since its inception, WikiProject COVID-19 is approaching 150 participants.
Keep starting discussions, asking questions, and identifying concerns. Most importantly, stay safe, --- Another Believer ( Talk) 21:46, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello. I created a campaign to improve description of images related to Covid on c:Commons:ISA Tool. Please jump in and help in adding captions and depicts. This is here : https://tools.wmflabs.org/isa/campaigns/61
Help! Help! My Wiki Foo is not strong enough to finish a archive bot! I setup Miszabot to archive the brazil's pandemic talk page after 7d of inactivity on a thread, and set it up to archive on monthly articles. The {{ talk header}} template should've listed the archives on it, or do i need to configure something else ? Can someone from the project more experienced setting this up help me, thanks ? -- Hagnat ( talk) 09:44, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
This comment addresses two related issues: 1) the inclusion of "notable deaths" in navigational templates such as {{ 2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdom}} and {{ 2020 coronavirus pandemic in France}}, and 2) the inclusion of said templates on the biographies of those individuals. I realize the pandemic is hot on everyone's mind, but I propose that both practices should be abandoned, per issues of disproportionate emphasis, relevance, taste, and minimizing recentism. I have previously raised this at Template talk:2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States, but will summarize my arguments here, in hopes of generating broader consensus and precedence. WP:NAVBOX states (emphasis added): Navigation templates are particularly useful for a small, well-defined group of articles... All articles within a template relate to a single, coherent subject... The articles should refer to each other, to a reasonable extent. I maintain that notable deaths follow none of the WP:NAVBOX guidelines. Navigation boxes should not be collections of loosely related trivia, nor serve only to satisfy morbid curiosity. We don't list every notable person who has died from AIDS at {{ HIV and AIDS}}, nor do we plaster the template on every biography who has contracted or died from the disease.
While articles directly about the pandemic in their respective countries make sense to include, as they tightly and logically relate to each other, I think it is bad taste, undue weight, and misguided to slap this template on assorted biographies that have absolutely nothing in common besides how they spent the last days of their life. It makes little sense to draw readers from these biographies into dozens of articles that are otherwise exclusively about pandemics. What logical set includes Peter J. N. Sinclair, Eddie Large, and Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath? What logical, non-trivial thread would compel us to direct readers, after reading one biography, towards any other in the template, let alone Clap for our Carers, NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital or legislation regarding the pandemic? Notable deaths from the pandemic are already compiled at List of deaths due to coronavirus disease 2019.
The specific templates under the scope of this discussion (i.e. those that currently include or previously included notable deaths) are:
To summarize my arguments:
Hi all, is someone able to help with the Template:2019–20 coronavirus pandemic data/Venezuela medical cases chart? Unlike a lot of the other country case charts, it doesn't have any collapse options (e.g. by month, death, last X days, or to collapse entirely). At first this was fine, there weren't many cases and it was small. Now it displays as shown here, and disrupts the article it's on. I was also wanting to add it to some of the related Venezuela crisis and medical articles, but if it's so big it just won't be suitable. I'm not sure where in the template code to add collapse options, but I'm sure someone here will have worked on e.g. the Spain one, which has them - any help or suggestions appreciated. Kingsif ( talk) 17:34, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
I looked for relevant articles and only found
but both are irrelevant. So is non-essentialism. Could someone start articles on one or more of these topics, or add new sections to the Essential services article?
Unrelated to these is that there is no article on close contact, but it seems to me this could be a useful article. The term is used on the contract tracing article with no clarification as to what it means, (and possibly one could get the impression that it implies sexual contact).
Also, there are no articles in general about underlying medical conditions, although there is an article on intercurrent disease in pregnancy.
There are no articles about nonmedical masks or non-surgical masks, although there is an article on cloth face masks.
The phrase presumptive cases is in many articles, but there is no article on the topic.-- Epiphyllumlover ( talk) 03:53, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
We have a draft article Draft:2020 coronavirus pandemic super-spreaders that looks ready for mainspace. However, I wanted to check with this project first for two reasons:
1) Given the millions of people turning to Wikipedia, we want to ensure all new articles about COVID-19 are airtight in terms of accuracy.
2) We also want to make sure that this isn't already fully covered somewhere else and indeed does need its own article.
Feel free to reply here or on the drafts talk page, I'll try to monitor both. I really appreciate all y'all are doing with this project and helping to prove just how valuable what we are building is. Sulfurboy ( talk) 23:57, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
@ Sulfurboy and Mfb: Just finished a preliminary copyedit and wanted to give my take on it. A lot of sentences don't parse well, which obfuscates whatever the primary editor is trying to convey and the draft as a whole would not be suitable for the Wikipedia project; some issues I had have been left as hidden comments on the draft. As Mfb pointed out, there is a lot of non-neutral language being used and citations missing where there should be some ("It is a well known fact"). I also question the necessity of this article. I checked the excerpts on some of the countries mentioned on this article and some of the "first cases" don't coincide with those mentioned on the draft, and once some of the cruft is removed, there is very little content remaining that I question it getting its own sections. The scope is pretty narrow; why not expand on it and talk about epidemiology instead? If one searches Epidemiology of COVID-19 they get redirected to 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic by country and territory. There's a lot of content over many pages that talk about the virus' epidemiology that could be consolidated on there. — Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 01:40, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
Question: is the plan to tag the talkpage of every article of a person who dies from this disease with the {{ WikiProject COVID-19}} banner? I would strongly recommend against doing so, as it will blow up the article alerts for our project and is likely to interfere with our ability to ensure quality content in articles directly related to the project. I would note that most of the articles of people who died from HIV/AIDS do not have the {{ WikiProject AIDS}} talkpage banner; it is only added if the person (such as Keith Haring) had a connection to the disease besides the cause of death, and I would recommend we follow the same practice here. UnitedStatesian ( talk) 16:29, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
Right now The Boat Race 2020 is part of this project. Should it be? --- Another Believer ( Talk) 20:27, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
Yellowdesk has recently been removing Template:Current disaster from dozens of coronavirus related articles on the basis of insufficient recent activity. I disagreed and posted a message on their talk page here. When should the current disaster template be used and is mass removal appropriate? Darylgolden( talk) Ping when replying 03:08, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
If anyone supports it, I'll mass remove them. Starzoner ( talk) 16:37, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
In an
informal discussion started by
Doc James over at
Template talk:2019-20 coronavirus pandemic data we have 3 editors (Doc James,
MarioGom, and
RayDeeUx) unanimously agree on not using Worldometer as a source. Some admins/sysops also supported [] not us[ing] WorldOMeter as a source to report any figures.
Should we add this to the current consensus, and if so, should we propagate this point over to all consensus posts over at each COVID-19-related article talk page? It doesn't seem many countries use Worldometer as a source anymore and are relying on their domestic sources for daily updates. --
Tenryuu 🐲 (
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16:57, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
Alright, so now that we've established consensus for adding this to the current consensus, how does everyone think the text should read? Right now I've got:
There is consensus [9] on refraining from using WorldOMeters.info as a source due to common errors being observed as noted on Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19/Case Count Task Force#Common errors.
— Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 03:58, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
Update: The item has been added to current consensus. Should we start adding this to the other COVID-19 article/template talk pages then? — Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 00:56, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
Update: I've transcluded the current consensus to the main project page for visibility. If anyone can help get rid of the white box (which is most likely from the current consensus page) that'd be much appreciated. — Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 02:23, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
Update: Consensus has been removed from the main project page by Moxy. — Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 15:20, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
Over the next weeks the topic of the "recovery phase" will emerge in many countries. it's also called "phase 2". This includes topics such as: which activities are opened first? which new measures are enacted? What are politicians saying? It does not mean it will be over of course, it's just the phase that comes after the (first) critical lockdown.
I took a look in the articles of mainland China and Austria, two countries which reduced the measures, for example but it looks like there is no standard yet about that.
Do you think that there will some standard title for such section? I would like to draft it in my sandbox about Italy in few weeks and it would help to get a general idea.-- Alexmar983 ( talk) 21:28, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
The article COVID-19 in pregnancy is currently rated as low importance to Wikiproject COVID-19, meaning that it has been assessed as being very specific or only affects a small group - given how many people around the world are pregnant (or be caring for people who are) at any given time, this surely cannot be the case? It would be useful to have the article importance reassessed to ensure that it receives editors' attention as it had been untouched for about a week until recently and had become out of date... Zeromonk ( talk) 14:39, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
For reference, here's the current assessment criteria below, though by no means is it set in stone. — Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 15:05, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
Importance | Criteria | Example |
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Top | Main topics relating to the disease and pandemic; the first articles a reader will find when looking for general information | COVID-19 pandemic, Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 |
High | Articles on topics relating to the disease and pandemic that are of secondary importance; readers looking for more specific information that is still generalized will likely read these | Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in February 2020, Li Wenliang |
Mid | Less-generalized topics relating to the disease and pandemic, readers will have likely specifically searched for these articles | List of unproven methods against COVID-19 |
Low | Fringe articles that have been created as supplementary to topics above | COVID-19 pandemic deaths |
Importance | Criteria | Example |
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Top | Main topics relating to the disease and pandemic; the first articles a reader will find when looking for general information | COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory |
High | Locations with articles in this category should have among the highest numbers of cases and/or deaths. Overview articles, including continents, are high importance | COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, COVID-19 pandemic in Italy |
Mid | Locations with articles in this category should have significant numbers of cases and/or deaths. Non-country locations (e.g. states and cities) with major outbreaks are mid importance. Other locations with smaller outbreaks but greater risk factors or contextual significance are mid importance. | COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, COVID-19 pandemic in Washington (state), COVID-19 pandemic in London, COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela |
Low | All other locations with their own articles are of lower importance | COVID-19 pandemic in Vatican City, COVID-19 pandemic in Arkansas |
Importance | Criteria | Example |
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Top | Main topics relating to the disease and pandemic; the first articles a reader will find when looking for general information | COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory, Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic |
High | Major people, industries, and responses related to the pandemic, are high-importance. These will include significant people involved in the fight against COVID-19, any industry that has irrevocably changed (e.g. healthcare, travel, entertainment), and global lockdowns | Li Wenliang, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the arts and cultural heritage |
Mid | People who have been involved with COVID-19 research, smaller industries that have been affected, and social phenomena created/impacted because of COVID-19 are mid importance | List of incidents of xenophobia and racism related to the COVID-19 pandemic |
Low | Articles covering topics where COVID-19 is not the main issue | Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the environment |
Hello! Someone has contacted me about the education statistic calculated in the template Template:Education statistics on the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic. When it is transcluded into 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, it is accompanied by a hidden passage reading "This information seems wrong compared to the source, but it is actually not. The UNESCO source states the amount of learners affected by nationwide closures, not the amount affected by both nationwide and local. Hover over the graph and you can see the number of total closures. By using cross multiplication, the correct answer is achieved. (1.576/91.3 is equal to 1.716/x)--> per cent of the world's student population."
If we're using different calculation methods than UNESCO, why are we citing them? Is there not another source that would present this statistic? -- Zanimum ( talk) 01:27, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi all. I noticed this project has only been translated into a few languages, most notably not into Spanish. I wonder if a translation is already going on and if so, how could I join the team. If there is no translation project, I would like to know if you think I could start doing so. I am a researcher in the field of protein science and also a school teacher. Santituarte ( talk) 10:47, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello. An editor has made a request on some talkpage, I forgot; about help with
mr:साचा:Medical cases chart
mr:साचा:२०२० मधील महाराष्ट्रातील कोरोना विषाणू उद्रेक/चार्ट. Would someone please take a look at it? The template is in english. —usernamekiran
(talk)
23:56, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
Interested users are invited to participate in the RfC at Talk:Misinformation related to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic#RFC: Should there be a section at the front of the article devoted to misinformation by the Chinese Government in December 2019 and January 2020?. Adoring nanny ( talk) 22:49, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
@ Moxy: Hello all. I have been working on the content on the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Tajikistan page since before the page was separated off and made into a separate page. Can Eurasianet articles be used on that page? Is that source considered reliable? How can I determine reliability for a source like that? Tajikistan is a neglected topic on Wikipedia- for example, just a few months ago, I had to upload the new map from the CIA Factbook in the wake of the China-Tajikistan border adjustment from 2011. Thanks for any help. Geographyinitiative ( talk) 03:08, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
According to [website name here], anonymous sources said that [...].-- MarioGom ( talk) 08:04, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
Op ed by a New York physician: " The Infection That’s Silently Killing Coronavirus Patients", on the use of pulse oximeters for early detection. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:05, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi all
I'm currently working as Wikipedian in Residence at UNESCO (funded by different Wikimedia orgs) where I've been for 5 years helping UN organisations share their knowledge on Wikipedia, I also write a lot of documentation for Wikipedia and Wikidata (which you can see on my user page).
Like with many organisations most of the UN system is now focused on COVID-19 response in their area of work. The UN is producing very high quality overviews of how COVID-19 is impacting different aspects of life, not just health but also education, agriculture, gender, domestic violence etc. I have contact with several senior people and experts in UN organisations who are really interested in sharing their knowledge on Wikipedia and I think their knowledge could really help. I've been thinking about how I could help them do this.
The UN staff have limited time to share their knowledge because of the pandemic so currently its not realistic to give them training to edit Wikipedia directly, I am working with some of them on open licensing the content, which will happen but not in the short term. I can act as an intermediary, working with them to collate information which I can share and I've been thinking about how best to do this, after talking to them and looking at their resources it seems like the best way to do it is to create areas on this Wikiproject to share information from them, specifically these pages which I've created drafts of. Whilst I'd be making them for UN sources they could easily be used by any other organisation producing reliable sources.
A couple of questions:
Thanks very much
John Cummings ( talk) 13:00, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
I just came across this article: Criticism of response to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. Is this an article we should have? Shouldn't criticism be included as relevant in articles about the pandemic in individual countries instead, as suggested at WP:CSECTION? — Granger ( talk · contribs) 12:33, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
I have nominated the article for deletion. Pinging all participants in this discussion: @ Orientls, Epiphyllumlover, and Andrew Davidson: — Granger ( talk · contribs) 23:26, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
Discussion is here Talk:2019–20_coronavirus_pandemic#IFR among other places. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 01:30, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
In case others are not following the Disney discussion above, I've created a stub for Wikipedia's response to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 15:09, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
On the front page of The Charlotte Observer is an article that says "officials said" April 20 that the number of confirmed cases may be 5 to 10 percent of the total. I'm guessing even in the article about North Carolina, this isn't something worth mentioning. But is there anything about estimates like this in any of the articles? I can't provide an online source. I went to the web site and the article in my actual newspaper that I'm looking at right now doesn't seem to be there.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 18:21, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
Shouldn't
Category:Drafts about the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic be replaced by
Category:Draft-Class COVID-19 articles which automatically is tagged onto talk pages by the {{
WikiProject COVID-19|class=draft}}
setup?
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65.94.170.207 (
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00:47, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
There is a discussion here about the reliability of the world health organisation. If anyone here wants to participate.-- SharʿabSalam▼ ( talk) 11:10, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
Joe Diffie is currently a Good article associated with this project. Should it be? --- Another Believer ( Talk) 15:43, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
As noted in a previous discussion, I still think that adding these articles to the WikiProject is not valuable for the articles or the project. There's not much more than a single sentence in the whole article where we can help as a project. There is also coordination resources like Article alerts that will not benefit from a flood of alerts that are completely unrelated to COVID-19. -- MarioGom ( talk) 20:21, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
The user BabbaQ has been retagging the articles that were deemed out of scope in this discussion
Would people be interested in a chat channel for this project + the related ones in other languages / on WD? – SJ + 17:09, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
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Do we have a section or article for generic pre-2019 coronavirus-like pandemic predictions? There are quite a few references to CIA and French security services warning Western governments that a pandemic more or less like the one happening now was reasonably likely on a decade-or-so time scale, especially post- SARS. E.g. in French this toot (archive) with a scan of a Canard enchaîné article: CIA Sep 2005 to Obama; July 2008 White paper on security and national defence in France - pandemic in the coming 15 years (quite accurate); 2013, equivalent French White paper; Dec 2017, Defence Ministry strategic review of defence and national security, France, risk of a new virus crossing the species boundary. (The toot itself is not a source - it's online social media, but there's enough info in there to trace the sources.) Boud ( talk) 01:05, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
I found an article by The Guardian discussing the coronavirus's impact on animals especially zoos. I wasn't sure if it would be useful as a source and if so where to put it. Any thoughts on this? Sakura Cartelet Talk 00:48, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
The number of edits on enwiki rose 9.27% from February to March. Darylgolden( talk) Ping when replying 09:28, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
I thought that members of this WikiProject would like to be notified about the recently created article Face masks during the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. It could use some other editors giving it a look. MarkZusab ( talk) 00:35, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
Are we covering this bit of scandal? [3] Jim.henderson ( talk) 17:19, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
So North Korea is still claiming, implausibly, that they have no cases. As there become fewer and fewer countries without cases, they stick out more and more in a misleading way. Our world map of cases per capita (our most important map, since it appears at the top of the main pandemic article infobox) currently has a "no cases or no data" color which merges the two distinct categories together. I recently proposed that we add a "suspected cases" color, as is done at File:COVID-19 Outbreak Cases in Asia.svg, but the map's creator, Raphaël Dunant, brought up very valid concerns that this could open up a can of worms if we don't agree on what precisely is needed for there to be a "suspected case". How should we handle this? {{u| Sdkb}} talk 18:40, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
information blackout. There are plenty of official updates. However, some media outlets dispute these updates and claim that the government of DPRK is lying. -- MarioGom ( talk) 18:48, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
re
Sdkb about DPRK data being implausible
, I definitely do not agree with that. Whether it is true or not, it seems plausible: the most hermetic country in the world, which closed the country to foreign tourists and started quarantine measures as early as January... well, if it is plausible to prevent importing cases in any country, that's probably North Korea (or some remote island in the Pacific). --
MarioGom (
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19:11, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Template talk:2019–20 coronavirus pandemic sidebar#List of hospitals. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 21:46, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
I invite project members to help expand Impact of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic on public transport.
Stay safe, --- Another Believer ( Talk) 20:23, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
If anyone's interested, there's a current discussion over animated graphs at Talk:2019-20 coronavirus pandemic#Epidemic curve graphics. — Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 06:55, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
There are at least four parallel software projects for smartphone/bluetooth/tracing software that aims to protect privacy:
and there is a bunch of declarations of how the software should protect privacy, and how government agencies should be constrained in their practical and legal management in relation to the software:
The Singapore software is already implemented en masse, it seems to me (I haven't checked this), so this is not crystalballing in terms of being already on people's phones, even though most of the projects are still in the development phase, it seems to me. The above projects/protocols all claim to be free-licensed and aim at privacy protection, so they are likely to develop rapidly (though hosting at github blocks/bans readers in Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria). Tech media reports on these projects should provide material for an article such as Pandemic phone-tracing software. Right now this would be COVID-19 related, but in the long term, would be valid for other pandemics.
The privacy issue would also be a core issue of the article, since Google/Apple, well-known for their massive privacy violations and totalitarian tracking of the world's population, are getting involved, and governments around the world would very likely be happy to have detailed tracking of the movements of 7 billion people for controlling dissidence, street demonstrations and other forms of spatial-location-linked political opposition.
Any better proposals for a name? The hyphen in Pandemic phone-tracing software is to distinguish Pandemic-phone tracing software (whatever that might mean) from Pandemic phone-tracing software. Boud ( talk) 14:54, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
Looks like the systemic impact of COVID-19 has been greatly underestimated.
I have many anecdotal reports (from Italy) of serious cardiovascular effects but very little has been published so far (see [5]). Some studies are about to come out and I will share them as soon as they do (based on autopsies and angiographies). There are reports of a lot of amputations of extremities, severe vasculitis and thrombosis, especially in fatal cases. They are trying heparin on patients now [6].
Will share if anything published comes up. Should be soon. Has anybody read anything on this that we can use to update the various articles? The nature review above is already included in COVID-19 but only marginally.
-- Gtoffoletto ( talk) 15:11, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
I am requesting someone to either improve Community spread / Community transmission section or start an article on the topic. Thanks. Epiphyllumlover ( talk) 01:19, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
Howdy all, and thanks for getting this project together! As a member of WikiProject Stub sorting, I'm concerned about the creation of a stub template and stub category ({{ COVID-19-stub}} / Category:COVID-19 stubs) for articles related to the coronavirus. It was not discussed at the WPSS proposals page, and in many cases it seems to be applied to articles about subjects which are not specifically about the virus. I would like to respectfully suggest that the COVID-19 project use the "stub-class" method to tag the talk pages of relevant articles. Please come discuss this at the WPSS talk page if you are interested. Her Pegship ( I'm listening) 02:25, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
Aprl 2, Myanmar Army showed and announce their camps to facility quarantine 15000 persons in Naypidaw and 2000 persons in Yangon comeback from other country.
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In April 6, The Committee for Corona Virus Disease 19 (COVID-19)of Myanmar announce to supply foods - rice and 5 items to all irregular income family and reduce 150 electrical units-charge supplying to all households. Myanmar Army announce to donate their one month salary including General Min Aung Hlaing salary to use for Covid-19 Prevent,Control and Curing
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In April 6,Mandalay Mayor restrict Transportation Express car not to enter to Mandaylay - which is to reduce Coronavirus spreading. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saitunzaw ( talk • contribs) 11:55, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
2019–20 coronavirus pandemic on social media is being edited as part of an educational assignment. Improvements and talk page feedback are welcome. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 14:25, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
Thanks to the many editors who have contributed to this project. One month since its inception, WikiProject COVID-19 is approaching 150 participants.
Keep starting discussions, asking questions, and identifying concerns. Most importantly, stay safe, --- Another Believer ( Talk) 21:46, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello. I created a campaign to improve description of images related to Covid on c:Commons:ISA Tool. Please jump in and help in adding captions and depicts. This is here : https://tools.wmflabs.org/isa/campaigns/61
Help! Help! My Wiki Foo is not strong enough to finish a archive bot! I setup Miszabot to archive the brazil's pandemic talk page after 7d of inactivity on a thread, and set it up to archive on monthly articles. The {{ talk header}} template should've listed the archives on it, or do i need to configure something else ? Can someone from the project more experienced setting this up help me, thanks ? -- Hagnat ( talk) 09:44, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
This comment addresses two related issues: 1) the inclusion of "notable deaths" in navigational templates such as {{ 2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdom}} and {{ 2020 coronavirus pandemic in France}}, and 2) the inclusion of said templates on the biographies of those individuals. I realize the pandemic is hot on everyone's mind, but I propose that both practices should be abandoned, per issues of disproportionate emphasis, relevance, taste, and minimizing recentism. I have previously raised this at Template talk:2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States, but will summarize my arguments here, in hopes of generating broader consensus and precedence. WP:NAVBOX states (emphasis added): Navigation templates are particularly useful for a small, well-defined group of articles... All articles within a template relate to a single, coherent subject... The articles should refer to each other, to a reasonable extent. I maintain that notable deaths follow none of the WP:NAVBOX guidelines. Navigation boxes should not be collections of loosely related trivia, nor serve only to satisfy morbid curiosity. We don't list every notable person who has died from AIDS at {{ HIV and AIDS}}, nor do we plaster the template on every biography who has contracted or died from the disease.
While articles directly about the pandemic in their respective countries make sense to include, as they tightly and logically relate to each other, I think it is bad taste, undue weight, and misguided to slap this template on assorted biographies that have absolutely nothing in common besides how they spent the last days of their life. It makes little sense to draw readers from these biographies into dozens of articles that are otherwise exclusively about pandemics. What logical set includes Peter J. N. Sinclair, Eddie Large, and Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath? What logical, non-trivial thread would compel us to direct readers, after reading one biography, towards any other in the template, let alone Clap for our Carers, NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital or legislation regarding the pandemic? Notable deaths from the pandemic are already compiled at List of deaths due to coronavirus disease 2019.
The specific templates under the scope of this discussion (i.e. those that currently include or previously included notable deaths) are:
To summarize my arguments:
Hi all, is someone able to help with the Template:2019–20 coronavirus pandemic data/Venezuela medical cases chart? Unlike a lot of the other country case charts, it doesn't have any collapse options (e.g. by month, death, last X days, or to collapse entirely). At first this was fine, there weren't many cases and it was small. Now it displays as shown here, and disrupts the article it's on. I was also wanting to add it to some of the related Venezuela crisis and medical articles, but if it's so big it just won't be suitable. I'm not sure where in the template code to add collapse options, but I'm sure someone here will have worked on e.g. the Spain one, which has them - any help or suggestions appreciated. Kingsif ( talk) 17:34, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
I looked for relevant articles and only found
but both are irrelevant. So is non-essentialism. Could someone start articles on one or more of these topics, or add new sections to the Essential services article?
Unrelated to these is that there is no article on close contact, but it seems to me this could be a useful article. The term is used on the contract tracing article with no clarification as to what it means, (and possibly one could get the impression that it implies sexual contact).
Also, there are no articles in general about underlying medical conditions, although there is an article on intercurrent disease in pregnancy.
There are no articles about nonmedical masks or non-surgical masks, although there is an article on cloth face masks.
The phrase presumptive cases is in many articles, but there is no article on the topic.-- Epiphyllumlover ( talk) 03:53, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
We have a draft article Draft:2020 coronavirus pandemic super-spreaders that looks ready for mainspace. However, I wanted to check with this project first for two reasons:
1) Given the millions of people turning to Wikipedia, we want to ensure all new articles about COVID-19 are airtight in terms of accuracy.
2) We also want to make sure that this isn't already fully covered somewhere else and indeed does need its own article.
Feel free to reply here or on the drafts talk page, I'll try to monitor both. I really appreciate all y'all are doing with this project and helping to prove just how valuable what we are building is. Sulfurboy ( talk) 23:57, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
@ Sulfurboy and Mfb: Just finished a preliminary copyedit and wanted to give my take on it. A lot of sentences don't parse well, which obfuscates whatever the primary editor is trying to convey and the draft as a whole would not be suitable for the Wikipedia project; some issues I had have been left as hidden comments on the draft. As Mfb pointed out, there is a lot of non-neutral language being used and citations missing where there should be some ("It is a well known fact"). I also question the necessity of this article. I checked the excerpts on some of the countries mentioned on this article and some of the "first cases" don't coincide with those mentioned on the draft, and once some of the cruft is removed, there is very little content remaining that I question it getting its own sections. The scope is pretty narrow; why not expand on it and talk about epidemiology instead? If one searches Epidemiology of COVID-19 they get redirected to 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic by country and territory. There's a lot of content over many pages that talk about the virus' epidemiology that could be consolidated on there. — Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 01:40, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
Question: is the plan to tag the talkpage of every article of a person who dies from this disease with the {{ WikiProject COVID-19}} banner? I would strongly recommend against doing so, as it will blow up the article alerts for our project and is likely to interfere with our ability to ensure quality content in articles directly related to the project. I would note that most of the articles of people who died from HIV/AIDS do not have the {{ WikiProject AIDS}} talkpage banner; it is only added if the person (such as Keith Haring) had a connection to the disease besides the cause of death, and I would recommend we follow the same practice here. UnitedStatesian ( talk) 16:29, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
Right now The Boat Race 2020 is part of this project. Should it be? --- Another Believer ( Talk) 20:27, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
Yellowdesk has recently been removing Template:Current disaster from dozens of coronavirus related articles on the basis of insufficient recent activity. I disagreed and posted a message on their talk page here. When should the current disaster template be used and is mass removal appropriate? Darylgolden( talk) Ping when replying 03:08, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
If anyone supports it, I'll mass remove them. Starzoner ( talk) 16:37, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
In an
informal discussion started by
Doc James over at
Template talk:2019-20 coronavirus pandemic data we have 3 editors (Doc James,
MarioGom, and
RayDeeUx) unanimously agree on not using Worldometer as a source. Some admins/sysops also supported [] not us[ing] WorldOMeter as a source to report any figures.
Should we add this to the current consensus, and if so, should we propagate this point over to all consensus posts over at each COVID-19-related article talk page? It doesn't seem many countries use Worldometer as a source anymore and are relying on their domestic sources for daily updates. --
Tenryuu 🐲 (
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16:57, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
Alright, so now that we've established consensus for adding this to the current consensus, how does everyone think the text should read? Right now I've got:
There is consensus [9] on refraining from using WorldOMeters.info as a source due to common errors being observed as noted on Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19/Case Count Task Force#Common errors.
— Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 03:58, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
Update: The item has been added to current consensus. Should we start adding this to the other COVID-19 article/template talk pages then? — Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 00:56, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
Update: I've transcluded the current consensus to the main project page for visibility. If anyone can help get rid of the white box (which is most likely from the current consensus page) that'd be much appreciated. — Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 02:23, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
Update: Consensus has been removed from the main project page by Moxy. — Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 15:20, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
Over the next weeks the topic of the "recovery phase" will emerge in many countries. it's also called "phase 2". This includes topics such as: which activities are opened first? which new measures are enacted? What are politicians saying? It does not mean it will be over of course, it's just the phase that comes after the (first) critical lockdown.
I took a look in the articles of mainland China and Austria, two countries which reduced the measures, for example but it looks like there is no standard yet about that.
Do you think that there will some standard title for such section? I would like to draft it in my sandbox about Italy in few weeks and it would help to get a general idea.-- Alexmar983 ( talk) 21:28, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
The article COVID-19 in pregnancy is currently rated as low importance to Wikiproject COVID-19, meaning that it has been assessed as being very specific or only affects a small group - given how many people around the world are pregnant (or be caring for people who are) at any given time, this surely cannot be the case? It would be useful to have the article importance reassessed to ensure that it receives editors' attention as it had been untouched for about a week until recently and had become out of date... Zeromonk ( talk) 14:39, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
For reference, here's the current assessment criteria below, though by no means is it set in stone. — Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 15:05, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
Importance | Criteria | Example |
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Top | Main topics relating to the disease and pandemic; the first articles a reader will find when looking for general information | COVID-19 pandemic, Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 |
High | Articles on topics relating to the disease and pandemic that are of secondary importance; readers looking for more specific information that is still generalized will likely read these | Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in February 2020, Li Wenliang |
Mid | Less-generalized topics relating to the disease and pandemic, readers will have likely specifically searched for these articles | List of unproven methods against COVID-19 |
Low | Fringe articles that have been created as supplementary to topics above | COVID-19 pandemic deaths |
Importance | Criteria | Example |
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Top | Main topics relating to the disease and pandemic; the first articles a reader will find when looking for general information | COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory |
High | Locations with articles in this category should have among the highest numbers of cases and/or deaths. Overview articles, including continents, are high importance | COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, COVID-19 pandemic in Italy |
Mid | Locations with articles in this category should have significant numbers of cases and/or deaths. Non-country locations (e.g. states and cities) with major outbreaks are mid importance. Other locations with smaller outbreaks but greater risk factors or contextual significance are mid importance. | COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, COVID-19 pandemic in Washington (state), COVID-19 pandemic in London, COVID-19 pandemic in Venezuela |
Low | All other locations with their own articles are of lower importance | COVID-19 pandemic in Vatican City, COVID-19 pandemic in Arkansas |
Importance | Criteria | Example |
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Top | Main topics relating to the disease and pandemic; the first articles a reader will find when looking for general information | COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory, Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic |
High | Major people, industries, and responses related to the pandemic, are high-importance. These will include significant people involved in the fight against COVID-19, any industry that has irrevocably changed (e.g. healthcare, travel, entertainment), and global lockdowns | Li Wenliang, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the arts and cultural heritage |
Mid | People who have been involved with COVID-19 research, smaller industries that have been affected, and social phenomena created/impacted because of COVID-19 are mid importance | List of incidents of xenophobia and racism related to the COVID-19 pandemic |
Low | Articles covering topics where COVID-19 is not the main issue | Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the environment |
Hello! Someone has contacted me about the education statistic calculated in the template Template:Education statistics on the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic. When it is transcluded into 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, it is accompanied by a hidden passage reading "This information seems wrong compared to the source, but it is actually not. The UNESCO source states the amount of learners affected by nationwide closures, not the amount affected by both nationwide and local. Hover over the graph and you can see the number of total closures. By using cross multiplication, the correct answer is achieved. (1.576/91.3 is equal to 1.716/x)--> per cent of the world's student population."
If we're using different calculation methods than UNESCO, why are we citing them? Is there not another source that would present this statistic? -- Zanimum ( talk) 01:27, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi all. I noticed this project has only been translated into a few languages, most notably not into Spanish. I wonder if a translation is already going on and if so, how could I join the team. If there is no translation project, I would like to know if you think I could start doing so. I am a researcher in the field of protein science and also a school teacher. Santituarte ( talk) 10:47, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello. An editor has made a request on some talkpage, I forgot; about help with
mr:साचा:Medical cases chart
mr:साचा:२०२० मधील महाराष्ट्रातील कोरोना विषाणू उद्रेक/चार्ट. Would someone please take a look at it? The template is in english. —usernamekiran
(talk)
23:56, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
Interested users are invited to participate in the RfC at Talk:Misinformation related to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic#RFC: Should there be a section at the front of the article devoted to misinformation by the Chinese Government in December 2019 and January 2020?. Adoring nanny ( talk) 22:49, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
@ Moxy: Hello all. I have been working on the content on the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Tajikistan page since before the page was separated off and made into a separate page. Can Eurasianet articles be used on that page? Is that source considered reliable? How can I determine reliability for a source like that? Tajikistan is a neglected topic on Wikipedia- for example, just a few months ago, I had to upload the new map from the CIA Factbook in the wake of the China-Tajikistan border adjustment from 2011. Thanks for any help. Geographyinitiative ( talk) 03:08, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
According to [website name here], anonymous sources said that [...].-- MarioGom ( talk) 08:04, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
Op ed by a New York physician: " The Infection That’s Silently Killing Coronavirus Patients", on the use of pulse oximeters for early detection. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:05, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi all
I'm currently working as Wikipedian in Residence at UNESCO (funded by different Wikimedia orgs) where I've been for 5 years helping UN organisations share their knowledge on Wikipedia, I also write a lot of documentation for Wikipedia and Wikidata (which you can see on my user page).
Like with many organisations most of the UN system is now focused on COVID-19 response in their area of work. The UN is producing very high quality overviews of how COVID-19 is impacting different aspects of life, not just health but also education, agriculture, gender, domestic violence etc. I have contact with several senior people and experts in UN organisations who are really interested in sharing their knowledge on Wikipedia and I think their knowledge could really help. I've been thinking about how I could help them do this.
The UN staff have limited time to share their knowledge because of the pandemic so currently its not realistic to give them training to edit Wikipedia directly, I am working with some of them on open licensing the content, which will happen but not in the short term. I can act as an intermediary, working with them to collate information which I can share and I've been thinking about how best to do this, after talking to them and looking at their resources it seems like the best way to do it is to create areas on this Wikiproject to share information from them, specifically these pages which I've created drafts of. Whilst I'd be making them for UN sources they could easily be used by any other organisation producing reliable sources.
A couple of questions:
Thanks very much
John Cummings ( talk) 13:00, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
I just came across this article: Criticism of response to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. Is this an article we should have? Shouldn't criticism be included as relevant in articles about the pandemic in individual countries instead, as suggested at WP:CSECTION? — Granger ( talk · contribs) 12:33, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
I have nominated the article for deletion. Pinging all participants in this discussion: @ Orientls, Epiphyllumlover, and Andrew Davidson: — Granger ( talk · contribs) 23:26, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
Discussion is here Talk:2019–20_coronavirus_pandemic#IFR among other places. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 01:30, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
In case others are not following the Disney discussion above, I've created a stub for Wikipedia's response to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 15:09, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
On the front page of The Charlotte Observer is an article that says "officials said" April 20 that the number of confirmed cases may be 5 to 10 percent of the total. I'm guessing even in the article about North Carolina, this isn't something worth mentioning. But is there anything about estimates like this in any of the articles? I can't provide an online source. I went to the web site and the article in my actual newspaper that I'm looking at right now doesn't seem to be there.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 18:21, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
Shouldn't
Category:Drafts about the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic be replaced by
Category:Draft-Class COVID-19 articles which automatically is tagged onto talk pages by the {{
WikiProject COVID-19|class=draft}}
setup?
--
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00:47, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
There is a discussion here about the reliability of the world health organisation. If anyone here wants to participate.-- SharʿabSalam▼ ( talk) 11:10, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
Joe Diffie is currently a Good article associated with this project. Should it be? --- Another Believer ( Talk) 15:43, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
As noted in a previous discussion, I still think that adding these articles to the WikiProject is not valuable for the articles or the project. There's not much more than a single sentence in the whole article where we can help as a project. There is also coordination resources like Article alerts that will not benefit from a flood of alerts that are completely unrelated to COVID-19. -- MarioGom ( talk) 20:21, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
The user BabbaQ has been retagging the articles that were deemed out of scope in this discussion
Would people be interested in a chat channel for this project + the related ones in other languages / on WD? – SJ + 17:09, 21 April 2020 (UTC)