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Do we have a navigation solution for readers that lets them see all of the many articles related to the pandemic? Schazjmd (talk) 16:59, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Template:2019–20 coronavirus pandemic exists, and looks like this: CoronavirusPlagueDoctor (talk) 17:09, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
CoronavirusPlagueDoctor, thanks! Schazjmd (talk) 17:11, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Content assessment?

Do we want to apply Wikipedia:Content assessment to this project? ---Another Believer (Talk) 17:18, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Another Believer, ya, however let's see how many articles we get under this project. --Titodutta (talk) 18:00, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, it shows we have more than 700 articles. --Titodutta (talk) 18:05, 15 March 2020 (UTC) many of those are biographies etc. --Titodutta (talk) 18:08, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment template

Template:WikiProject_COVID-19 — RealFakeKimT 18:08, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

RealFakeKim, this needs to be added in script like rater.js which maked assessment easier. --Titodutta (talk) 18:09, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Titodutta, Can you help with this? Or, maybe other folks at the WikiProject Council can help? ---Another Believer (Talk) 18:34, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
pinging Evad37 (talk · contribs). --Titodutta (talk) 19:03, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@RealFakeKim, Titodutta, and Another Believer: It will show up when the cached wikiproject banner data Rater stores in your browser is updated. This happens automatically every couple of days, or you can go to the preferences page (cog wheel in the top-left of the Rater window), and click on the "Reset cache" button. - Evad37 [talk] 02:03, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Help adding banners to talk pages

Thanks to User:RealFakeKim for creating a talk page banner. Can volunteers help by adding the banner to talk pages?

Using Template:2019–20 coronavirus pandemic as a checklist, can folks claim certain sections to tag?

  • Timeline  Done
  • Locations  Done
    • Africa  Done
    • Asia  Done
    • Europe  Done
    • N. America  Done
      • United States  Done
    • Oceania  Done
    • S. America  Done
    • International conveyances  Done
    • Lockdowns  Done
  • Institutions  Done
  • Issues  Done
  • People  Not done
  • Data  Done
  • category talk pages  Not done

Thanks for any help. Lots of tagging needed here... many hands make for light work! ---Another Believer (Talk) 18:28, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Once this account gets autoconfirmed, I could make a python bot to do it. CoronavirusPlagueDoctor (talk) 19:23, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Importance scale

I have made a draft of what an importance scale would look like. It is far from done, but I would like community input on it, as well as topics not mentioned yet on the table.

Label What could be included Potential examples
Top General topics relating to the disease 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic, Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic by country and territory
High Countries in this category should have at least 5000 cases (May go up due to rising # of cases), all continents, 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Europe, 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Italy, Timeline of the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic in February 2020
Mid Countries in this category should have at least 100-200 cases, major outbreaks in states and provinces (such as Washington state) 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Canada, 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Washington (state)
Low Countries and territories with under the required amount for medium, some notable people with the disease 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Vatican City, 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Arkansas, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau

Username6892 19:56, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  • I think the difference should occur at some sort of drop-off between 2000 and 5000 (will likely go up). As of now, there are no countries with 2,000-3,000 cases and 8 with more than 3,000, so 2,500 seems like a good line as of now — Preceding unsigned comment added by Username6892 (talk • contribs) 20:16, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

At what level would the lockdowns be at? I'd say medium or high (Probably medium).Username6892 20:23, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

As well, where should we put anything under "issues", I think the categories should account for articles that are indirectly related, like its effects on politics, the economy, cinema/tv, the people, basically anything that's not "X number of cases" if that makes sense. QueerFilmNerdtalk 21:21, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I would say mostly mid for the issues, though socio-economic impact is probably high-importance. Username6892 21:27, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

At this point I would suggest to give the ~10 countries with the most cases importance high (China, Italy, Iran, South Korea are obvious, the list of 10 would also include Spain, Germany, France, the US, Switzerland and the UK - Norway, the Netherlands and Sweden might be relevant because their per capita rates are so high), give very small countries low, and wait for everything else, otherwise things need their assessment changed many times and the discussion which case counts are the limits has to be done every week. It is too early to know which countries will see the largest outbreaks. --mfb (talk) 03:44, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment and article alerts

Assessments needs a little work.....--Moxy 🍁 22:09, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

COVID-19
articles		 Importance Refresh
 Top   High   Mid   Low  ???  Total
Quality  FA 0 0 0 0 0 2
 A 0 0 0 0 0 0
 GA 0 0 0 0 0 16
B 0 0 0 0 0 174
C 0 0 0 0 0 750
Start 0 0 0 0 0 1020
Stub 0 0 0 0 0 339
 FL 0 0 0 0 0 0
List 0 0 0 0 0 168
??? 0 0 0 0 0 1
Total 18 178 487 1849 1 2533

Article alerts request for bot.--Moxy 🍁 22:09, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Moxy, Thanks ---Another Believer (Talk) 22:11, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Can this Assessment table be put on the main project page? TJMSmith (talk) 23:18, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
TJMSmith, I just added, but admit there may be better ways to display the table so less white space is generated. ---Another Believer (Talk) 23:36, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Moxy, TJMSmith, and Another Believer: the {{Articles by Quality and Importance}} requires subcategories like Category:GA-Class COVID-19 articles of Low-importance ( 0 ) which is why the middle of that table is all zeroes. A better chart template should be used. --awkwafaba (📥) 00:02, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Template changed... and article alerts up and running and trasncluded on the project page Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19/Article alerts.--Moxy 🍁 20:42, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Article in The Signpost

I am outlining an article in Wikipedia's own newspaper, The Signpost, currently at

Some resources are there.

I am interested in this Wikipedia article for the sake of COVID-19 itself but also as a model for Wikipedia's general disaster response. Blue Rasberry (talk) 17:22, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Bluerasberry, would this be related to the RfC that Bri posted on this page today? Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝) 00:42, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Tenryuu: I collaborate with Bri on multiple projects, including that Signpost article, but do not see an RfC from Bri. Can you point to it? Blue Rasberry (talk) 01:36, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Bluerasberry, perhaps "RfC" isn't the right term to use, but further down was submitted today for editors to comment on the situation. I'm assuming this is the same assignment? Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝) 02:15, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
It is indeed the same assignment, though we are moving to creating it across two columns in the same issue. I did not see this earlier post. ☆ Bri (talk) 03:14, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Plan

We need to explain the scope and objectives of the WikiProject on the project page. One thing I really want to see is to attempt avoiding fake and inaccurate information in the Covid-19 articles. Regards. --Titodutta (talk) 18:02, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I think it should include articles to do with the virus and pandemic including people. — RealFakeKimT 18:09, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

U.S. state drafts

I've created very basic drafts for the U.S. states that don't yet have their own articles. They include some section headings, {{infobox pandemic}} and external links to each state's coronavirus website. Trivialist (talk) 18:12, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Trivialist, Feel free to copy over to main space sooner than later. ---Another Believer (Talk) 18:21, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Gubernatorial announcements specifically. kencf0618 (talk) 23:17, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

US Task Force article

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RfC concerning coronavirus pandemic navbox

There is an RfC on linking to the template namespace within the navbox. Please contribute your comments there.  Bait30  Talk 2 me pls? 19:15, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed COVID-19 Women in Red (WIR) April edit-a-thon

I started a discussion about a COVID-19 themed WIR April edit-a-thon here: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Ideas#COVID-19. Please feel free to add your thoughts. I started a crowd-sourced list of redlinks and stubs of women connected to COVID-19. TJMSmith (talk) 23:03, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome

Well, I didn't even get a chance to post a welcome note before editors started using this page for a variety of purposes (which, of course, is appropriate and encouraged). I think the immediate use and fast addition of ~20 participants already demonstrates the need for this WikiProject. So, welcome.

Unfortunately, this project has been created because of a large problem we face collectively at this time. But I think we can all agree, we as Wikipedia editors can do so much good right now by making the site as helpful as possible to communities across the globe. Thanks for contributing to this project and affiliated articles and other pages. Please stay safe, ---Another Believer (Talk) 19:30, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, yes unfortunately we have this problem but fortunately we have this project. There might be a bit of recentism in this but given the amount of coverage this has got already and the fact that in places like the UK its predicted to get a lot worse (presumably that's the case for most places other than China and Italy that have already been hit hard) so maybe we can have the virus (or pandemic) as a WP:Vital article especially given that Black Death is a level 3 VA. Crouch, Swale (talk) 18:47, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

{{User WikiProject COVID-19}}

Feel free to modify this userbox. Stay safe everyone. —hueman1 (talk • contributions) 19:32, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

HueMan1, cool. --Titodutta (talk) 19:34, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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New 1000 top viewed articles report now available

Also posted at Village Pump/Technical, but I just saw the announcement for this new wikiproject on wikimedia-l so I figured I'd post here too! - J

I noticed the other day that the popular pages report had gone down. I've been working on something similar for work (an inbound social media traffic report), and I had a lot of related code already written, so I put together this top 1000 viewed articles report. I plan to update the report daily, with the previous day's results. If it's helpful, I'd be happy to maintain it indefinitely.

Where else should I announce this? It seems to me that in the middle of a global pandemic, it's more important than ever for us to know what articles people are reading.

BTW, I think I could also create a complete replacement for the Popular Pages report (which is weekly, not daily) pretty easily—as long as 1000 pages is enough, since that's the limit of what you can grab from the Rest API in a single query. Feedback appreciated! Cheers, J-Mo 21:15, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yet another (potential) report: COVID-19 articles by views and predicted quality

I'm looking for ways to help... can you tell?

I put together a draft of another potential report, this one specifically for the COVID-19 WikiProject. The COVID-19 daily article report contains pageviews for all the articles that use the 2019 coronavirus pandemic template. It also contains predicted article quality scores for each of these articles. The predictions come from ORES and are based on the Enwiki article quality classes—but they're statistical predictions based on the current status of the article, not its status whenever it was last assessed. And the predictions are available for any article, even brand new ones. And they'll change day-by-day as articles are edited.

This list will also grow day-by-day, as new articles are given the Covid-10 template.

I haven't set the code up to run this report on a daily basis yet, but that would be possible with a few more hours of work. Please let me know if you think this would be useful. Please also let me know if you see any bugs, or if there is other information you'd like me to add to the report! Cheers, J-Mo 00:01, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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A new WikiProject

Very good initiative, because this virus has created soo many new articles and also soo many new categories in Wikipedia. Can you imagine now almost every single country on earth as a new category on (Category:Health disasters in xxx and Category:Medical outbreaks in xxx).

But just one question. Generally, all of the COVID-19-related articles, they are Always classified into WikiProject Disaster management, WikiProject Medicine (under Pulmonology task force) and WikiProject Viruses - to the very minimum. Of course if it is about a particular country, then the WikiProject of that country will also be put into the talk page of that article.

But now since we have this WikiProject COVID-19 which is essentially about medicine and virus (although not directly about disaster management) and it is the derivative of WikiProject Medicine (Pulmonology task force) and WikiProject Viruses, which makes those 2 WikiProjects the "parent WikiProject" of WikiProject COVID-19, thus shall we delete those 2 WikiProjects once we have the WikiProject COVID-19? Or now we keep those 4 WikiProjects as the minimum at all time (WikiProject COVID-19, WikiProject Disaster management, WikiProject Medicine (Pulmonology task force) and WikiProject Viruses)? Chongkian (talk) 01:14, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Chongkian, I think it makes more sense to redirect COVID-19 content on the two parent WikiProjects over to this one. Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝) 06:36, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Where should the data live?

Currently, the case data used in articles here lives in a set of templates, which does not seem to be an optimal solution. Other options would include the Data namespace on Commons (e.g. commons:Data:Ncei.noaa.gov/weather/New York City.tab), SVG files on Commons (e.g. commons:File:Atmospheric Microwave Transmittance at Mauna Kea (simulated).svg) or Wikidata (e.g. 2020 coronavirus outbreak in France (Q83873593)). All three could be made to work with or without templates and in a manual or automated fashion. -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 02:45, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Daniel Mietchen, I'm torn between the three. The Wikidata example is detailed and gets down into the specifics (which is great), but I like how it's been organised as a data set on Commons. Would there be a way to automate .svg file updates as the data set it's drawing from gets edited? Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝) 14:17, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Tenryuu Various combinations are possible, including automated SVG file updates as the underlying data change. Depending on how that is implemented, a bot permission might be needed or not. Some bots like commons:User:ListeriaBot or commons:User:TabulistBot exist for such purposes, and commons:Category:Valid SVG created with Python code lists some example SVG files created using Python code, whereas mw:Extension:Graph can visualize data based on tabular data on Commons. -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 02:29, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Added auto archiving

This page is getting cluttered, so I decided to add auto archiving. However, I want time for discussions to run their course, so the bot will wait 7 days before archiving anything. CoronavirusPlagueDoctor (talk about the coronavirus/Contributions about the coronavirus) 03:59, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

CoronavirusPlagueDoctor, Thanks, ---Another Believer (Talk) 11:55, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wikisource

FYI, I have just created s:Category:COVID-19 on en.Wikisource. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:20, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Pigsonthewing, Thanks, ---Another Believer (Talk) 11:56, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Quality log

Is everybody aware of Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/COVID-19 articles by quality log? Maybe there should be a link to that somewhere. I recommend watchlisting. Agathoclea (talk) 11:27, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Anyone know what are Category:SIA-Class COVID-19 articles and Category:SL-Class COVID-19 articles for? ---Another Believer (Talk) 11:33, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
SL is a Stub List
SL Meets the criteria to be a List but is significantly incomplete, or needs considerable work to be useful as a complete list of links to a set of articles, or has other serious deficiencies. Would be classed as "stub" or "start" if an article. Provides some relevant links but readers will need more. Any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of further relevant links should be a priority. List of plants of Pantanal vegetation of Brazil
(Mar. 2012)

and

is what I could find. Agathoclea (talk) 11:43, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Agathoclea, Huh, thanks. ---Another Believer (Talk) 11:55, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Coming back to the log. I suspect that the traffic today will be so much that one page is not enaugh. In that case the bot will split the pages and you will need to access the revisions. Agathoclea (talk) 11:59, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Content table

Why is every entry on the table under "Content" at 0? Victionarier (talk) 13:47, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Victionarier, This project's pages were all created yesterday. I think it takes a couple days for bots to start working, tables to be updated, etc. ---Another Believer (Talk) 14:14, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, I didn't know that. Victionarier (talk) 14:34, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi contributors,

Good work in updating the main article. I do see some of the Straits Times and CNA articles are archived. Please help to create an archive of each url link (especially those from MOH) as the weblink will not be available once the article provider(s) decide to change and relocate the news articles and will become deadlink. Do not waste the effort spent to update the article. Thank you. Flipchip73 (talk) 14:09, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

External link: Archive.is
An example archive site one can use. Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝) 16:14, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

To do section?

With the vast number of COVID-19 articles there are now, I feel that we should have, on the main project page, a "to do" section broken down into subsections like "Needs updating", "More sources needed", and "Requires copyediting"; this would allow the project to focus its efforts rather than patrolling multiple pages on the off-chance something needs to be addressed. --Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝) 14:39, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

U.S. state articles

I'm not suggesting we need a page for each U.S. state, at least not yet, but here are redirects for possible future expansion:

---Another Believer (Talk) 14:55, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent idea. They should be more substantial than stubs. kencf0618 (talk) 23:45, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Gave each current link a status. Classes were arbitrarily chosen (please change them if they do not meet assessment guidelines). --Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝) 00:35, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Updated a little more. --Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝) 02:33, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

information Observation It seems that Article Alerts fulfills this purpose. --Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝) 03:09, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Spreadsheet + handbook of relate efforts

Not sure where this fits on wiki (as these extend to many non-wiki efforts), but here are two editable collections of links and information. Please help update them:

And here is an international community of visualizers helping frame options and potential policy decisions, w/ the new england complex systems institute. They could help generate more wiki visuals (and we could import their current daily visuals, all freely licensed):

– SJ + 15:41, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sj, thanks for showing us those links. I think the URL for the Corona Handbook may have been inputted incorrectly as it leads me to a "site cannot be reached" page. The catalog seems to be a helpful source to connect different ongoing efforts and I personally feel it would be a good link to have on the project's main page. Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝) 15:51, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata and Wikicite for COVID-19

I am writing to invite anyone to participate in Wikidata's d:Wikidata:WikiProject COVID-19. The following text is an intro to Wikidata for English Wikipedia contributors who are interested in COVID-19.

Hello, I participate in English Wikipedia WikiProject Medicine and I also contribute to Wikidata WikiProject Medicine, and the meta:Wikicite project, and as a researcher at the University of Virginia I develop a Wikidata project called d:Wikidata:Scholia. I am writing to invite anyone to edit COVID-19 content in Wikidata by the usual community norms, or if anyone understands Wikidata, to document new models of engagement. I will briefly share what I think is a good introduction for anyone to learn about Wikidata's ability to present information about disasters like COVID-19.

Wikidata can contain many sorts of data, but because Wikidata has the bias of its Wikipedia-editing contributor base, it has a lot of citation metadata. "Citation metadata" is content in the "references" section of Wikipedia articles. Among citation data, academic journal metadata is the easiest to bring to Wikidata, so Wikidata has great ability to sort academic journals, articles, authors, and topics. The subset of citation data in Wikidata can be called the Wikicite project.

To view collections in content in Wikidata one needs to write a SPARQL language database query in the d:Wikidata:Wikidata Query Service. Almost no one knows this technical language, so a common sort of Wikidata project is providing assistance in making queries. d:Wikidata:Scholia is a product and web interface which makes browsing Wikicite content much easier by allowing a user to search for a topic, like COVID-19, and get information about the academic publications covering this topic.

Here is what is useful to do now to contribute to COVID-19 on Wikidata:

  1. for a person who is casually interested, just try to learn more about Wikidata
    1. browse and run example queries in query.wikidata.org by clicking "example"
    2. Talk about any of these queries or anything Wikidata by posting any comments or questions to d:Wikidata:Project chat
    3. Input any COVID-19 term into Scholia to see how Wikidata works, such as by viewing the profile of the pandemic
  2. for a person with more interest, do any Wikidata edit
    1. Editing Wikidata is comparable to editing a Wikipedia infobox
    2. Having a community base with some understanding of the relationship between English Wikipedia and Wikidata is essential for long term collaboration
    3. Do whatever seems fun or interesting to you, and edit in Wikidata what you normally edit in English Wikipedia
  3. for a person with lots of interest, curate a Wikidata collection
    1. This could mean 10-100 edits, which a beginner might do in 1-2 hours
    2. Ask questions and request support at d:Wikidata:WikiProject COVID-19
    3. Example good contribution - tag academic articles with main subject (P921) for topics which are the subject of English Wikipedia articles, like "COVID-19 in (X place)"

Thanks for your interest. Please visit English Wikipedia's WikiProject Medicine and whatever seems interesting on Wikidata. Ask questions anywhere. Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:42, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Bluerasberry, excellent, thanks for sharing. A good friend yesterday made major changes to improve 2020 coronavirus pandemic in India (Wikidata). Will ensure to promote this page among Wikidata India editors. Regards. --Titodutta (talk) 02:36, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Adjusted number of cases

I would like to share an idea to have a more precise understanding of the number of cases of COVID-19.

The idea is that the confirmed cases are usually reported after a long incubation. I believe that the reported cases reflect the number of cases of about one week before. Since the number of cases is growing exponentially, the difference between the reported cases and the actual cases can be huge.

Please, have a look at Wikiversity:COVID-19/Julian_Mendez.

Thank you, --Julian (talk) 15:42, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment for The Signpost

The Signpost is interested in the community's response to the virus crisis. If anyone here is interested in having their comments about the issue published, please contact me or Smallbones ☆ Bri (talk) 18:12, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Bri, just to clarify, about the issue in general or about creating articles on here? Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝) 19:47, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
It may shape up more about how we are responding to the crisis by pouring energy into article creation and updates. But this is not completely ironed out yet; it depends on what feedback we get. If there are personal stories about how the crisis has affected you or your family, your relationship to your "day job" vice life as a Wikipedian, missing Wikipedia events/meetups, we'd like to hear about that too. Have you heard about people turning to WP for information more than usual? That kind of stuff. ☆ Bri (talk) 20:46, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
​ I see. Would you like me to reach out? The Guild of Copyeditors is seeing a lot of activity this month and that could be a possible reason. When's the deadline for comment submission? Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝) 21:17, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, please do reach out to others. Let's say I'll include responses I get through next Saturday, March 21. After that I'll have to be wrapping up the column and moving on to other things. ☆ Bri (talk) 22:12, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
​  Reached out to the GOCE. You are fine with having replies on your talk page? Or do you have somewhere else in mind? Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝) 22:40, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
On my talkpage is fine, and if it becomes heavy I can move it to a subpage or something. ☆ Bri (talk) 23:06, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I'm sure others are interested, but holler if you don't get enough volunteers. Thanks for covering this topic. ---Another Believer (Talk) 20:45, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Featured picture?

Should File:SARS-CoV-2 49534865371.jpg be classified as featured media? I'm not seeing the star. I went ahead and added the project's other currently featured media to the project page. ---Another Believer (Talk) 19:50, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

See Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/SARS-CoV-2 Username6892 19:57, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Username6892, Thanks, but shouldn't there be a star or template identifying the image as featured? ---Another Believer (Talk) 19:59, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
It's fully protected, so the admin must've forgotten to put it there. Username6892 20:00, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Armbrust: Bringing this to your attention. Thank you! ---Another Believer (Talk) 20:01, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

Another editor made File:COVID-19 barnstar.png for this project. Thought I'd share here. Happy editing, ---Another Believer (Talk) 20:05, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The template is at {{COVID-19 Barnstar}}. --awkwafaba (📥) 23:58, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
👍 Like ---Another Believer (Talk) 00:03, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Another Believer, pretty scary . --Titodutta (talk) 02:27, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Why in Template namespace?

Why is Template:2019–20 coronavirus pandemic data/China medical cases by province in "Template:" namespace? (And maybe further page too).

It is not transcluded in any page (except form itself (what! why?) and from an archived talk page) see list. --Mezze stagioni (talk) 21:57, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I find the tables in this template (and the similar templates for the rest of the world) very handy as open-source/easy to obtain disease statistics. I can imagine ways these tables would be useful as an archive of this important information in a tabular form, though I'm not familiar enough with Wikipedia to say where or how these should reside. I watched them slide out of article space and get orphaned; maybe they got too big? I do find them useful for quickly comparing the progression of this disease in different countries. Is there a convention for storing such a table of notable statistics and references? 47.36.166.123 (talk) 08:06, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Related: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_COVID-19#Where_should_the_data_live? 47.36.166.123 (talk) 08:33, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

worth noting

corporate and organisational communications and media reports of recent have been using the term Deep cleaning for sanitising possibly infected places - there may be better fits, but just a heads up that https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deep_cleaning&redirect=no it is redirected to a dental process... JarrahTree 01:38, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people with coronavirus disease 2019

The Afd discussion regarding List of people with coronavirus disease 2019 is quite mess. If you have any suggestions please add them. Abishe (talk) 01:51, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Merge Discussion

As we have a dedicated WikiProject now, please consider sharing your view here: Talk:2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_India#Proposed_merge_of_2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Karnataka_into_2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_India. Regards. --Titodutta (talk) 02:26, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Deborah Birx

There are a few issues going on at Deborah L. Birx. Please see the talk page over there and contribute where you can. Thanks.  Bait30  Talk 2 me pls? 04:45, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion on getting the main pandemic talk page under control

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:2019–20_coronavirus_pandemic#How_can_we_get_this_talk_page_under_control?. Sdkb (talk) 04:45, 17 March 2020 (UTC)Template:Z48[reply]

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