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So Wikipedia talk:WikiProject COVID-19/Archive 9#Best universal colors for maps and graphs? just got archived, which is perhaps for the best since it was somewhat sprawly/unorganized, but we still have a lot of discussion left to do to establish some standards that we could roll out. I'm going to open up a bunch of subsections here to address different questions; feel free to put forth proposals for them or to add additional sections, but please consider collapsing examples to keep the length short. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 10:10, 20 May 2020 (UTC)Courtesy pinging Shawnqual, who spearheaded the just-archived discussion.
@ Sdkb: I think standardisation is not possible from this discussion. Users express only their personal preferences and not what makes better maps based on colour differentiation and implementation issues. I will continue making maps using scheme D below and only suggest others follow. Ythlev ( talk) 03:28, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
Which colors should be used for different types of maps? {{u| Sdkb}} talk 10:10, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
¤Scheme A: 6-5 colors - • Used for the world maps on the main article of
COVID-19 pandemic
Colors |
a) Confirmed cases:
b) Confirmed cases per capita timeline:
c) Confirmed cases per capita (5 for this):
d) Confirmed deaths per capita (5 for this): |
¤Scheme B: 6 colors - • Used for multiple country maps on their respective articles (apart from recories scheme which is a new proposal) See,
Chile,
Pakistan,
Oman to mention a few
Colors |
a) Confirmed cases:
b) Confirmed cases per capita:
c) Confirmed deaths/deaths per capita:
d) Confirmed recoveries/recoveries per capita: |
¤Scheme C: 6 colors - • Based on Inkscape 1 and used only for the article of South Africa
Colors |
a) Confirmed cases:
10-99 100-999 1000-9999 10000-99999 100000+ b) Confirmed active cases:
1-9 10-99 100-999 1000-9999 10000-99999 100000+ c) Confirmed deaths:
10-99 100-999 1000-9999 10000-99999 100000+ d) Confirmed recoveries: 1-9 10-99 100-999 1000-9999 10000-99999 +100000 |
¤Scheme D: 5 colours - • Cartographer-recommended schemes, designated colour-blind friendly, LCD friendly, and print friendly
[1]
Colors |
a) Cases:
b) Cases per unit population:
c) Deaths:
|
¤Scheme E: 6 colors - Based on four different base colors from ColorBrewer [Color blind friendly]
Colors |
a) Confirmed cases (Red): b) Confirmed cases per capita (Orange): c) Confirmed deaths/deaths per capita (Blue): d) Confirmed recoveries/recoveries per capita (Green): |
¤Scheme F: 5 colors - • Based on four different base colors from ColorBrewer [Color blind friendly, Print and LCD friendly]
Colors |
a) Confirmed cases (Purple/Red): b) Confirmed cases per capita (Red/Purple): c) Confirmed deaths/deaths per capita (Blue): d) Confirmed recoveries/recoveries per capita (Green): |
Scheme B examples for (a) and (b) |
Scheme E is the best, don't you agree?. No. It is not LCD friendly and print friendly. Ythlev ( talk) 01:42, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
Based on color differentiation. And the reason why it isn't LCD and print-friendly is because none of the 6-class colors are LCD and print-friendly. Which if we are going to dive deeper, is that realy an issue? I think the most important thing while we pick a scheme apart from factors discussed here is whether or not it is color-blind friendly. Rest is secondary imo. •Shawnqual• 📚 • 💭 03:36, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
none of the 6-class colors are LCD and print-friendly.Exactly.
is that realy an issue?. If you care about the small minority who are colour-blind, why are the people who use laptops and those who print articles "secondary"? Ythlev ( talk) 05:25, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
use six. So if there is a consensus there, why complicate things further? •Shawnqual• 📚 • 💭 01:02, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
I'm sure if you randomly picked a colour-blind person, chances are they would be able discern colours in any of the above schemes. But out of the entire population? including yourself
. I switched to five and I am not going back. In fact, there are statistical reasons for using five. if there is a consensus
. Users who don't contribute to the maps don't get a say.
Ythlev (
talk) 03:37, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
Users who don't contribute to the maps don't get a say., Everyone must be welcome to contribute as Wikipedia is a collaborative effort. At least, the 100+ plus memebers of this project should certainly be allowed to contribute imo. Also, the suggestion of letting only creators being allowed to contribute would have been great had there been enough participation by them. Only three (including you and me) have contributed so far :-/.
How many different colors should be used on maps? {{u| Sdkb}} talk 10:10, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
Should legends use fixed ranges with nice round numbers, or update dynamically to keep the map as balanced as possible? {{u| Sdkb}} talk 10:10, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
Should the image file itself include the legend, or should that always appear in the caption? {{u| Sdkb}} talk 10:10, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
Should the image file itself include the date? Can it include other optional annotations such as the count for different countries? {{u| Sdkb}} talk 10:10, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
I suggest standardising to only two kinds: a million and 10,000. Map makers can choose based on division size. Ythlev ( talk) 04:32, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
@ Sea29: is adding flag icons to navboxes for this project. I fear that this may run afoul of WP:INFOBOXFLAG. Elizium23 ( talk) 05:58, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
Hey. Do you use a bot for updating the data? If so, mind sharing the code? We're looking into automatic updates for other wikis. Cheers. -- Олександр Кравчук ( talk) 15:07, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
I see there's a very large template at COVID-19 pandemic in Pennsylvania. Many other articles have collapsible ones. Can someone here help? --- Another Believer ( Talk) 17:56, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi all
I just started Coronavirus pandemic impact on children, children are impacted in many ways, this UNFPA resource has a lot of good information on the topic but I'm sure there are many others. Please contribute to the article.
Thanks
John Cummings ( talk) 16:45, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
I don't have time to do the research but I saw these topics in an actual newspaper.
With all the vaccine research, some people are not getting vaccines for other diseases.
Some jobs are gone for good.
The U.S. economy is making a faster comeback than expected (this one has probably already been covered).— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 18:18, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:COVID-19_pandemic_in_Tamil_Nadu#Merge. Soumya-8974 talk contribs subpages 06:22, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
For details, read the comment shown below the comic strip here. Obviously this is not an independent source, but I was hoping someone could find one. I don't really have time today after I got tempted to do some other things, and it might take a lot of effort to figure out not only what's there but how to put it on Wikipedia.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 19:40, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
A new editor is trying to add content to Tear gas that ties the use of tear gas at some BLM protests to the spread of COVID-19. There are comments on the talk page starting at Talk:Tear gas#Long-term heath effects of tear gas. Please see what you can do to help this article. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 19:36, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
So some time has passed and things are slowing down... it seems like a good time to fix up all the transclusion of sections that has us duplicating the same info across 3 or 4 articles. What would be the best approach here to fix our Wikipedia:Content forking problems. Good example for cleanup is COVID-19 pandemic and Coronavirus disease 2019 where we are saying the same thing in the intros of 2 different articles. Lets spend sometime on bring theses up normal standards.-- Moxy 🍁 16:48, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
Editors may propose a consensus change by discussion or editing ... Editors who revert a change proposed by an edit should generally avoid terse explanations (such as "against consensus") which provide little guidance to the proposing editor (or, if you do use such terse explanations, it is helpful to also include a link to the discussion where the consensus was formed).I think that a failure to observe that would be regarded as disruptive. -- RexxS ( talk) 22:29, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
This 'Talk Page' describes that problem, and identifies a possible cause.
Symptom: The webpage for MN Dept of Health has become out-of-synch with the Wikipedia webpage. Two JPGs are attached for comparison purposes. PLEASE NOTICE: The "Total Number of Cases" shown in this Wikipedia table are significantly understated when compared to total number of cases published by MN Dept. of Health.
Possible Cause: It appears that MN Dept. of Health has changed the methodology they use as they update their "Positive Cases By Date Specimen Collected Table" and that Wikipedia is not yet matching this new methodology for data-entry.
Beginning May 13th, MN Dept of Health began doing daily updates for historic test-case numbers. Since Wikipedia is not yet doing daily updates within their table for test-cases that are backdated, there is an increasing daily disparity in reporting. EMPHASIS: This disparity creates a significant reporting problem. It's significant because it undermines the trending daily percentage # of cases being published by Wikipedia. NOTE: I have NOT evaluated whether the reporting for # of deaths is also affected.
It's hoped that the detail here in this 'Talk Page' will allow Wikipedia page authors to adjust their methodology doing for daily table updates... adjusting to match the methodology used by MDH. The detail provided in this Wikipedia table is valued a great deal!
OUTinMN ( talk) 21:55, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
I wish that some editors reading this page can please comment on the discussion I started at Talk:Social distancing#Social distancing: whether it includes a decrease in activity outside the home. I'm mentioning it here because the determination would end up affecting quite a few other pages that use the term. Kudu ~I/O~ 22:12, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
This is how the main page of this WikiProject looks on a mobile phone.
I really don't think that the present layout is at all mobile-friendly, requiring sideways-scrolling to see content. Bearing in mind that the majority of page views in general come from mobile users, even if a smaller proportion actually view this page, it's counter-productive to use a layout that is awkward for a significant proportion of our readership to use. I think it needs to be redesigned to be more usable on mobile interfaces. -- RexxS ( talk) 21:30, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
Demo of a starting point for an alternative:
-- RexxS ( talk) 20:29, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
I would stick with the following header, which include graphics:
-- Soumya-8974 talk contribs subpages 05:11, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
<center>...</center>
tag has been deprecated in html for a long time now. You shouldn't be using it for any new content.I tagged its talk page with this WikiProject since it recently contains related content. Please also see WT:EU#East StratCom Task Force. Thanks, — Paleo Neonate – 22:52, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
Hello, So the largest city in the state of California is Los Angeles. I hope someone will create the propose article titled COVID-19 pandemic in Los Angeles, its the sister articles to COVID-19 pandemic in California and COVID-19 pandemic in the San Francisco Bay Area. The newly created article will be focused on the pandemic specifically on the city of Los Angeles and the surrounding cities of Los Angeles County including Glendale, Burbank, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Long Beach, Pasadena and Culver City. Don't forget the Los Angeles neighborhood of Hollywood that includes the shut down of film and television studios in the filming industry that impacted Hollywood. The propose article will include how many active cases, how many deaths, how many recoveries and how many overall cases on the city of Los Angeles. I will by happy for anyone's reply for the requested article to created and will be focused only on the city of Los Angeles. According to the sister article titled COVID-19 pandemic in California, did you know that Los Angeles is the worse infected city in the state of California? I sure hope so. Once again, I hope anyone will create the article to focus on the city of Los Angeles. Thanks for your consideration. 2001:569:74D2:A800:DD58:FAD9:9766:81E3 ( talk) 08:02, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
If you're interested in patrolling content, then Special:RecentChangesLinked might be useful to you. For example, Special:RecentChangesLinked/Coronavirus disease 2019 will give you a list of all the changes that have been made to any article that is linked in the COVID-19 article. At the top of the page, you can switch it from the default setting of links in ("from") that article to links to that article, which would let you discover articles (e.g., BLPs, drugs, laws, books, etc.) that have had information added to them about COVID-19. This can help you find articles that interest you. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 16:32, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
Please help with updates to the table. We're falling behind.
If you decide to help: 1) sort by the "Date" column to see the oldest entries; 2) when updating "Tested" and "Confirmed (cases)" columns, please don't forget to also update the "Date" column, values inside the formulas, and the "Ref." column.
Thank you! — UnladenSwallow ( talk) 08:44, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
You've probably seen in the news that scientists in the UK have found what they're calling the first guaranteed treatment for COVID-19, using Dexamethasone. As I'm no expert, I haven't added any information on this anywhere - but neither has anyone else, and it seems significant enough to get at least a mention. Kingsif ( talk) 16:18, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
I co-authored a a new pre-print (not yet published but currently under peer review) analyzing Wikipedia's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is not a request for it to be included in any articles, more a notice to the community. Comments, questions, ideas, and other feedback are welcome as comments below or emailed to me. Madcoverboy ( talk) 14:27, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
Since this has been there without an answer from a while and since I have some reservations as I pointed out, would somebody of you knowledgeable persons who somehow missed this in their watchlist please take a look? Thanks, RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 00:17, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
This draft could use some eyes from this project - he seems like a borderline case for WP:PROF but if he's such a "big deal" in the arena of COVID one would think there would be more independent news articles about him (not just quotes or brief mentions). Any assistance in either finding sources or improving the draft (or telling me I'm daft and just putting it into mainspace) is appreciated. Primefac ( talk) 18:12, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
Some here may be familiar with the Signpost's "Recent research" section, a regular survey of academic research about Wikipedia that doubles as the Wikimedia Research Newsletter (now in its tenth volume).
For the upcoming June issue, we plan to cover several new COVID-19 themed papers and preprints (including the two mentioned above):
If you are interested in reading one of them and contributing a summary or review, please take look at this Etherpad.
Regards, HaeB ( talk) 00:57, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi everybody. I'm wondering about highlighted yellow text in COVID-19 pandemic in Syria.
In all my years on Wikipedia, I never came across yellow highlighting in an article. The page Template:Highlight even stipulates "Please keep template usage to talk pages only".
I removed it, but it was immediately reverted [2]. Does it have a purpose under the Covid project I'm not aware of? Thank you. Gates of Ale ( talk) 12:30, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey is detailed, but it's substantially sourced to deprecated source Sputnik News. Obviously, a source that's deprecated for fabrication is not a MEDRS. Is there anyone who knows Turkish media well enough to fix this one up? Or is stripping the Sputnik-sourced material - most of it - all that can be done? - David Gerard ( talk) 09:45, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
Over two months ago, I create-protected this page because Draft:COVID-19 pandemic super-spreaders was being continually moved from draftspace without proper review. It was suggested to me on my talk page by Pigsonthewing that perhaps this page could be redirected to Superspreader#COVID-19 outbreak 2020. I think this is a pretty reasonable request, but I'd like to ask here first and see what people think. bibliomaniac 1 5 04:49, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
Done Bibliomaniac15, redirect COVID-19 pandemic superspreaders created after evaluating request. I just want to add that the Superspreader#COVID-19 outbreak 2020 has a scope of expansion as information about many countries are missing/not included ~ Amkgp 💬 18:30, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi all
I'm aware there is an article for impact on hospitals but is there an article on something like healthcare systems or healthcare policy? I know that in some country articles there is mention of this but there are wider patterns, impacts and recommendations that should be written about, I'm unsure if I'm just using the wrong words when searching for it though....
Thanks
John Cummings ( talk) 20:12, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi all
UN Women have released a batch of graphics related to women and COVID-19. They've also released some text information about the impact of the pandemic on women under open license so can be copied from their website
You can find instructions of how to use open license text at Help:Adding open license text to Wikipedia, please make sure to use the template described so I can let them know where their content is used.
Many thanks
<gallery mode=packed widths="250px" heights="250px"> 136 million women migrants, 66 million women migrant workers, 8.5 million women migrant domestic workers.png 810 women die every day from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth, 94% occur in low and lower middle-income countries.png Children and youth out of school due to COVID-19 closures and Young people classified as NEET.png Domestic violence before the pandemic and since the lockdown.png Global health and social care workers 70% women, leaders in the global health sector 30% women.png Share of employed in informal employment.png Unpaid work before and since the COVID-19 pandemic started.png Violence against women, especially domestic violence has intensified.png Women's representation in major peace processes from 1992 to 2018.png </gallery
John Cummings ( talk) 13:15, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
Are there also some analogous materials about the impact of the pandemic on men, produced by "UN Men"? -- ŠJů ( talk) 10:02, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi. I actually need someone with a good knowledge of math or graphs to take a look at the graphs on COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey. I have been updating all of them regularly except "Growth factor of total case number (since 100th case)" and "Growth factor of total death number (since 100th case)". I wasn't able to figure out what method or formula has been used for calculating those figures, and they haven't been updated in two weeks, so I thought someone might be interested to help. Keivan.f Talk 20:54, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi guys, please correct me if I am wrong but this edit says there is current consensus to not use columns, but it seems I can't find one. Am I wrong in reverting this user? Starzoner ( talk) 03:04, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
Is this really appropriate? We could argue that literally everything in the world has been touched by COVID-19, but are we really saying that means every article needs a COVID nav template? —valereee ( talk) 10:36, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
Wikimedia Germany is quite organized and developed. Their staff produces documentation and policy briefs. This document describes how Wikimedia projects addressed COVID-19. Blue Rasberry (talk) 21:58, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
Paediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome (a.k.a. multisystem inflammatory disorder in children) appears to be a rare complication of (delayed response to) SARS-CoV-2 infection in certain children. It has been in the news as a novel Kawasaki-like disease that has emerged during the pandemic.
I've done my best to categorize the page, but I'm not sure how it should be listed/appear in the COVID-19 portal etc. I'd be grateful if somebody could check/complete my (limited :) efforts. Thank you, 86.186.155.159 ( talk) 16:18, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
I was just reading an article in an actual newspaper that says the pandemic has made it clear that Internet access has to be universal. The article, of course, focuses on the United States, but even for this country, I looked around at various topics and didn't see this idea covered. At least I didn't see how the pandemic has made the need more urgent.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 16:32, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
I understand this is not COVID per se, but it's related and part and parcel of that which has been furthered by COVID editing on Wikipedia: please see the talk page of "NEW" (not) virus, G4 EA H1N1 as a reminder to take greater care to respect MEDRS and NOTNEWS. [3] SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 15:52, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
Original discussion is archived at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject COVID-19/Archive 10#Mobile view. -- Soumya-8974 talk contribs subpages 05:57, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi all, I'm seeing an increase in coverage and discussion of the impact of coronavirus on housing and eviction, particularly in a US context but maybe elsewhere. There's a national eviction-related law and many state measures, but also concerns about mass evictions this summer. I'm not seeing anything about housing in Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States (and Eviction in the United States is short and doesn't mention covid) so those will both be places to start, but is there are another more appropriate article? Has there been any discussion of this topic? (I'm not up to date on covid discussions). Would it be worthwhile starting a new article? Thoughts welcome. (my article notes are here) -- phoebe / ( talk to me) 21:17, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
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Archive 5 | ← | Archive 8 | Archive 9 | Archive 10 | Archive 11 | Archive 12 | → | Archive 15 |
So Wikipedia talk:WikiProject COVID-19/Archive 9#Best universal colors for maps and graphs? just got archived, which is perhaps for the best since it was somewhat sprawly/unorganized, but we still have a lot of discussion left to do to establish some standards that we could roll out. I'm going to open up a bunch of subsections here to address different questions; feel free to put forth proposals for them or to add additional sections, but please consider collapsing examples to keep the length short. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 10:10, 20 May 2020 (UTC)Courtesy pinging Shawnqual, who spearheaded the just-archived discussion.
@ Sdkb: I think standardisation is not possible from this discussion. Users express only their personal preferences and not what makes better maps based on colour differentiation and implementation issues. I will continue making maps using scheme D below and only suggest others follow. Ythlev ( talk) 03:28, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
Which colors should be used for different types of maps? {{u| Sdkb}} talk 10:10, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
¤Scheme A: 6-5 colors - • Used for the world maps on the main article of
COVID-19 pandemic
Colors |
a) Confirmed cases:
b) Confirmed cases per capita timeline:
c) Confirmed cases per capita (5 for this):
d) Confirmed deaths per capita (5 for this): |
¤Scheme B: 6 colors - • Used for multiple country maps on their respective articles (apart from recories scheme which is a new proposal) See,
Chile,
Pakistan,
Oman to mention a few
Colors |
a) Confirmed cases:
b) Confirmed cases per capita:
c) Confirmed deaths/deaths per capita:
d) Confirmed recoveries/recoveries per capita: |
¤Scheme C: 6 colors - • Based on Inkscape 1 and used only for the article of South Africa
Colors |
a) Confirmed cases:
10-99 100-999 1000-9999 10000-99999 100000+ b) Confirmed active cases:
1-9 10-99 100-999 1000-9999 10000-99999 100000+ c) Confirmed deaths:
10-99 100-999 1000-9999 10000-99999 100000+ d) Confirmed recoveries: 1-9 10-99 100-999 1000-9999 10000-99999 +100000 |
¤Scheme D: 5 colours - • Cartographer-recommended schemes, designated colour-blind friendly, LCD friendly, and print friendly
[1]
Colors |
a) Cases:
b) Cases per unit population:
c) Deaths:
|
¤Scheme E: 6 colors - Based on four different base colors from ColorBrewer [Color blind friendly]
Colors |
a) Confirmed cases (Red): b) Confirmed cases per capita (Orange): c) Confirmed deaths/deaths per capita (Blue): d) Confirmed recoveries/recoveries per capita (Green): |
¤Scheme F: 5 colors - • Based on four different base colors from ColorBrewer [Color blind friendly, Print and LCD friendly]
Colors |
a) Confirmed cases (Purple/Red): b) Confirmed cases per capita (Red/Purple): c) Confirmed deaths/deaths per capita (Blue): d) Confirmed recoveries/recoveries per capita (Green): |
Scheme B examples for (a) and (b) |
Scheme E is the best, don't you agree?. No. It is not LCD friendly and print friendly. Ythlev ( talk) 01:42, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
Based on color differentiation. And the reason why it isn't LCD and print-friendly is because none of the 6-class colors are LCD and print-friendly. Which if we are going to dive deeper, is that realy an issue? I think the most important thing while we pick a scheme apart from factors discussed here is whether or not it is color-blind friendly. Rest is secondary imo. •Shawnqual• 📚 • 💭 03:36, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
none of the 6-class colors are LCD and print-friendly.Exactly.
is that realy an issue?. If you care about the small minority who are colour-blind, why are the people who use laptops and those who print articles "secondary"? Ythlev ( talk) 05:25, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
use six. So if there is a consensus there, why complicate things further? •Shawnqual• 📚 • 💭 01:02, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
I'm sure if you randomly picked a colour-blind person, chances are they would be able discern colours in any of the above schemes. But out of the entire population? including yourself
. I switched to five and I am not going back. In fact, there are statistical reasons for using five. if there is a consensus
. Users who don't contribute to the maps don't get a say.
Ythlev (
talk) 03:37, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
Users who don't contribute to the maps don't get a say., Everyone must be welcome to contribute as Wikipedia is a collaborative effort. At least, the 100+ plus memebers of this project should certainly be allowed to contribute imo. Also, the suggestion of letting only creators being allowed to contribute would have been great had there been enough participation by them. Only three (including you and me) have contributed so far :-/.
How many different colors should be used on maps? {{u| Sdkb}} talk 10:10, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
Should legends use fixed ranges with nice round numbers, or update dynamically to keep the map as balanced as possible? {{u| Sdkb}} talk 10:10, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
Should the image file itself include the legend, or should that always appear in the caption? {{u| Sdkb}} talk 10:10, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
Should the image file itself include the date? Can it include other optional annotations such as the count for different countries? {{u| Sdkb}} talk 10:10, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
I suggest standardising to only two kinds: a million and 10,000. Map makers can choose based on division size. Ythlev ( talk) 04:32, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
@ Sea29: is adding flag icons to navboxes for this project. I fear that this may run afoul of WP:INFOBOXFLAG. Elizium23 ( talk) 05:58, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
Hey. Do you use a bot for updating the data? If so, mind sharing the code? We're looking into automatic updates for other wikis. Cheers. -- Олександр Кравчук ( talk) 15:07, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
I see there's a very large template at COVID-19 pandemic in Pennsylvania. Many other articles have collapsible ones. Can someone here help? --- Another Believer ( Talk) 17:56, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi all
I just started Coronavirus pandemic impact on children, children are impacted in many ways, this UNFPA resource has a lot of good information on the topic but I'm sure there are many others. Please contribute to the article.
Thanks
John Cummings ( talk) 16:45, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
I don't have time to do the research but I saw these topics in an actual newspaper.
With all the vaccine research, some people are not getting vaccines for other diseases.
Some jobs are gone for good.
The U.S. economy is making a faster comeback than expected (this one has probably already been covered).— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 18:18, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:COVID-19_pandemic_in_Tamil_Nadu#Merge. Soumya-8974 talk contribs subpages 06:22, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
For details, read the comment shown below the comic strip here. Obviously this is not an independent source, but I was hoping someone could find one. I don't really have time today after I got tempted to do some other things, and it might take a lot of effort to figure out not only what's there but how to put it on Wikipedia.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 19:40, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
A new editor is trying to add content to Tear gas that ties the use of tear gas at some BLM protests to the spread of COVID-19. There are comments on the talk page starting at Talk:Tear gas#Long-term heath effects of tear gas. Please see what you can do to help this article. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 19:36, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
So some time has passed and things are slowing down... it seems like a good time to fix up all the transclusion of sections that has us duplicating the same info across 3 or 4 articles. What would be the best approach here to fix our Wikipedia:Content forking problems. Good example for cleanup is COVID-19 pandemic and Coronavirus disease 2019 where we are saying the same thing in the intros of 2 different articles. Lets spend sometime on bring theses up normal standards.-- Moxy 🍁 16:48, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
Editors may propose a consensus change by discussion or editing ... Editors who revert a change proposed by an edit should generally avoid terse explanations (such as "against consensus") which provide little guidance to the proposing editor (or, if you do use such terse explanations, it is helpful to also include a link to the discussion where the consensus was formed).I think that a failure to observe that would be regarded as disruptive. -- RexxS ( talk) 22:29, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
This 'Talk Page' describes that problem, and identifies a possible cause.
Symptom: The webpage for MN Dept of Health has become out-of-synch with the Wikipedia webpage. Two JPGs are attached for comparison purposes. PLEASE NOTICE: The "Total Number of Cases" shown in this Wikipedia table are significantly understated when compared to total number of cases published by MN Dept. of Health.
Possible Cause: It appears that MN Dept. of Health has changed the methodology they use as they update their "Positive Cases By Date Specimen Collected Table" and that Wikipedia is not yet matching this new methodology for data-entry.
Beginning May 13th, MN Dept of Health began doing daily updates for historic test-case numbers. Since Wikipedia is not yet doing daily updates within their table for test-cases that are backdated, there is an increasing daily disparity in reporting. EMPHASIS: This disparity creates a significant reporting problem. It's significant because it undermines the trending daily percentage # of cases being published by Wikipedia. NOTE: I have NOT evaluated whether the reporting for # of deaths is also affected.
It's hoped that the detail here in this 'Talk Page' will allow Wikipedia page authors to adjust their methodology doing for daily table updates... adjusting to match the methodology used by MDH. The detail provided in this Wikipedia table is valued a great deal!
OUTinMN ( talk) 21:55, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
I wish that some editors reading this page can please comment on the discussion I started at Talk:Social distancing#Social distancing: whether it includes a decrease in activity outside the home. I'm mentioning it here because the determination would end up affecting quite a few other pages that use the term. Kudu ~I/O~ 22:12, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
This is how the main page of this WikiProject looks on a mobile phone.
I really don't think that the present layout is at all mobile-friendly, requiring sideways-scrolling to see content. Bearing in mind that the majority of page views in general come from mobile users, even if a smaller proportion actually view this page, it's counter-productive to use a layout that is awkward for a significant proportion of our readership to use. I think it needs to be redesigned to be more usable on mobile interfaces. -- RexxS ( talk) 21:30, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
Demo of a starting point for an alternative:
-- RexxS ( talk) 20:29, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
I would stick with the following header, which include graphics:
-- Soumya-8974 talk contribs subpages 05:11, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
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tag has been deprecated in html for a long time now. You shouldn't be using it for any new content.I tagged its talk page with this WikiProject since it recently contains related content. Please also see WT:EU#East StratCom Task Force. Thanks, — Paleo Neonate – 22:52, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
Hello, So the largest city in the state of California is Los Angeles. I hope someone will create the propose article titled COVID-19 pandemic in Los Angeles, its the sister articles to COVID-19 pandemic in California and COVID-19 pandemic in the San Francisco Bay Area. The newly created article will be focused on the pandemic specifically on the city of Los Angeles and the surrounding cities of Los Angeles County including Glendale, Burbank, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Long Beach, Pasadena and Culver City. Don't forget the Los Angeles neighborhood of Hollywood that includes the shut down of film and television studios in the filming industry that impacted Hollywood. The propose article will include how many active cases, how many deaths, how many recoveries and how many overall cases on the city of Los Angeles. I will by happy for anyone's reply for the requested article to created and will be focused only on the city of Los Angeles. According to the sister article titled COVID-19 pandemic in California, did you know that Los Angeles is the worse infected city in the state of California? I sure hope so. Once again, I hope anyone will create the article to focus on the city of Los Angeles. Thanks for your consideration. 2001:569:74D2:A800:DD58:FAD9:9766:81E3 ( talk) 08:02, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
If you're interested in patrolling content, then Special:RecentChangesLinked might be useful to you. For example, Special:RecentChangesLinked/Coronavirus disease 2019 will give you a list of all the changes that have been made to any article that is linked in the COVID-19 article. At the top of the page, you can switch it from the default setting of links in ("from") that article to links to that article, which would let you discover articles (e.g., BLPs, drugs, laws, books, etc.) that have had information added to them about COVID-19. This can help you find articles that interest you. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 16:32, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
Please help with updates to the table. We're falling behind.
If you decide to help: 1) sort by the "Date" column to see the oldest entries; 2) when updating "Tested" and "Confirmed (cases)" columns, please don't forget to also update the "Date" column, values inside the formulas, and the "Ref." column.
Thank you! — UnladenSwallow ( talk) 08:44, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
You've probably seen in the news that scientists in the UK have found what they're calling the first guaranteed treatment for COVID-19, using Dexamethasone. As I'm no expert, I haven't added any information on this anywhere - but neither has anyone else, and it seems significant enough to get at least a mention. Kingsif ( talk) 16:18, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
I co-authored a a new pre-print (not yet published but currently under peer review) analyzing Wikipedia's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is not a request for it to be included in any articles, more a notice to the community. Comments, questions, ideas, and other feedback are welcome as comments below or emailed to me. Madcoverboy ( talk) 14:27, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
Since this has been there without an answer from a while and since I have some reservations as I pointed out, would somebody of you knowledgeable persons who somehow missed this in their watchlist please take a look? Thanks, RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 00:17, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
This draft could use some eyes from this project - he seems like a borderline case for WP:PROF but if he's such a "big deal" in the arena of COVID one would think there would be more independent news articles about him (not just quotes or brief mentions). Any assistance in either finding sources or improving the draft (or telling me I'm daft and just putting it into mainspace) is appreciated. Primefac ( talk) 18:12, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
Some here may be familiar with the Signpost's "Recent research" section, a regular survey of academic research about Wikipedia that doubles as the Wikimedia Research Newsletter (now in its tenth volume).
For the upcoming June issue, we plan to cover several new COVID-19 themed papers and preprints (including the two mentioned above):
If you are interested in reading one of them and contributing a summary or review, please take look at this Etherpad.
Regards, HaeB ( talk) 00:57, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi everybody. I'm wondering about highlighted yellow text in COVID-19 pandemic in Syria.
In all my years on Wikipedia, I never came across yellow highlighting in an article. The page Template:Highlight even stipulates "Please keep template usage to talk pages only".
I removed it, but it was immediately reverted [2]. Does it have a purpose under the Covid project I'm not aware of? Thank you. Gates of Ale ( talk) 12:30, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey is detailed, but it's substantially sourced to deprecated source Sputnik News. Obviously, a source that's deprecated for fabrication is not a MEDRS. Is there anyone who knows Turkish media well enough to fix this one up? Or is stripping the Sputnik-sourced material - most of it - all that can be done? - David Gerard ( talk) 09:45, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
Over two months ago, I create-protected this page because Draft:COVID-19 pandemic super-spreaders was being continually moved from draftspace without proper review. It was suggested to me on my talk page by Pigsonthewing that perhaps this page could be redirected to Superspreader#COVID-19 outbreak 2020. I think this is a pretty reasonable request, but I'd like to ask here first and see what people think. bibliomaniac 1 5 04:49, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
Done Bibliomaniac15, redirect COVID-19 pandemic superspreaders created after evaluating request. I just want to add that the Superspreader#COVID-19 outbreak 2020 has a scope of expansion as information about many countries are missing/not included ~ Amkgp 💬 18:30, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi all
I'm aware there is an article for impact on hospitals but is there an article on something like healthcare systems or healthcare policy? I know that in some country articles there is mention of this but there are wider patterns, impacts and recommendations that should be written about, I'm unsure if I'm just using the wrong words when searching for it though....
Thanks
John Cummings ( talk) 20:12, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi all
UN Women have released a batch of graphics related to women and COVID-19. They've also released some text information about the impact of the pandemic on women under open license so can be copied from their website
You can find instructions of how to use open license text at Help:Adding open license text to Wikipedia, please make sure to use the template described so I can let them know where their content is used.
Many thanks
<gallery mode=packed widths="250px" heights="250px"> 136 million women migrants, 66 million women migrant workers, 8.5 million women migrant domestic workers.png 810 women die every day from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth, 94% occur in low and lower middle-income countries.png Children and youth out of school due to COVID-19 closures and Young people classified as NEET.png Domestic violence before the pandemic and since the lockdown.png Global health and social care workers 70% women, leaders in the global health sector 30% women.png Share of employed in informal employment.png Unpaid work before and since the COVID-19 pandemic started.png Violence against women, especially domestic violence has intensified.png Women's representation in major peace processes from 1992 to 2018.png </gallery
John Cummings ( talk) 13:15, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
Are there also some analogous materials about the impact of the pandemic on men, produced by "UN Men"? -- ŠJů ( talk) 10:02, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi. I actually need someone with a good knowledge of math or graphs to take a look at the graphs on COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey. I have been updating all of them regularly except "Growth factor of total case number (since 100th case)" and "Growth factor of total death number (since 100th case)". I wasn't able to figure out what method or formula has been used for calculating those figures, and they haven't been updated in two weeks, so I thought someone might be interested to help. Keivan.f Talk 20:54, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi guys, please correct me if I am wrong but this edit says there is current consensus to not use columns, but it seems I can't find one. Am I wrong in reverting this user? Starzoner ( talk) 03:04, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
Is this really appropriate? We could argue that literally everything in the world has been touched by COVID-19, but are we really saying that means every article needs a COVID nav template? —valereee ( talk) 10:36, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
Wikimedia Germany is quite organized and developed. Their staff produces documentation and policy briefs. This document describes how Wikimedia projects addressed COVID-19. Blue Rasberry (talk) 21:58, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
Paediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome (a.k.a. multisystem inflammatory disorder in children) appears to be a rare complication of (delayed response to) SARS-CoV-2 infection in certain children. It has been in the news as a novel Kawasaki-like disease that has emerged during the pandemic.
I've done my best to categorize the page, but I'm not sure how it should be listed/appear in the COVID-19 portal etc. I'd be grateful if somebody could check/complete my (limited :) efforts. Thank you, 86.186.155.159 ( talk) 16:18, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
I was just reading an article in an actual newspaper that says the pandemic has made it clear that Internet access has to be universal. The article, of course, focuses on the United States, but even for this country, I looked around at various topics and didn't see this idea covered. At least I didn't see how the pandemic has made the need more urgent.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 16:32, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
I understand this is not COVID per se, but it's related and part and parcel of that which has been furthered by COVID editing on Wikipedia: please see the talk page of "NEW" (not) virus, G4 EA H1N1 as a reminder to take greater care to respect MEDRS and NOTNEWS. [3] SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 15:52, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
Original discussion is archived at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject COVID-19/Archive 10#Mobile view. -- Soumya-8974 talk contribs subpages 05:57, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi all, I'm seeing an increase in coverage and discussion of the impact of coronavirus on housing and eviction, particularly in a US context but maybe elsewhere. There's a national eviction-related law and many state measures, but also concerns about mass evictions this summer. I'm not seeing anything about housing in Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States (and Eviction in the United States is short and doesn't mention covid) so those will both be places to start, but is there are another more appropriate article? Has there been any discussion of this topic? (I'm not up to date on covid discussions). Would it be worthwhile starting a new article? Thoughts welcome. (my article notes are here) -- phoebe / ( talk to me) 21:17, 8 July 2020 (UTC)