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WikiProject COVID-19 is a WikiProject dedicated to Wikipedia's coverage of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, COVID-19, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Please join us!
The project is an offshoot of WikiProject Disaster management, WikiProject Medicine (including the Pulmonology and Society and medicine task forces), and WikiProject Viruses. Sibling projects include WikiProject AIDS.
Content
[edit]As of 22 August 2024, there are 2,466 articles within the scope of WikiProject COVID-19. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, project pages, etcetera, there are 9,262 pages in the project.
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{{COVID-19 pandemic}}
contains English Wikipedia's main portfolio of articles related to COVID-19 as seen below. For the sidebar used on many articles see {{COVID-19 pandemic sidebar}}
Assessment
[edit]Content assessments are used within the project itself as a quality and importance scale that aid in identifying vital content, while recognizing excellent contributions and pages in need of further work and cleanup.
Articles assessed for quality: 99.6% complete | ||
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C | 8 | 66 | 185 | 477 | 12 | 748 | |
Start | 1 | 46 | 158 | 794 | 17 | 1,016 | |
Stub | 10 | 44 | 274 | 7 | 335 | ||
List | 2 | 21 | 38 | 90 | 1 | 6 | 158 |
Category | 2 | 896 | 898 | ||||
Disambig | 26 | 26 | |||||
File | 151 | 151 | |||||
Portal | 2 | 2 | |||||
Project | 45 | 45 | |||||
Redirect | 3 | 15 | 44 | 377 | 439 | ||
Template | 2 | 581 | 583 | ||||
NA | 1 | 1 | |||||
Other | 21 | 21 | |||||
Assessed | 18 | 173 | 482 | 1,796 | 2,105 | 44 | 4,618 |
Unassessed | 1 | 18 | 19 | ||||
Total | 18 | 173 | 483 | 1,796 | 2,105 | 62 | 4,637 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 10,630 | Ω = 4.64 |
Recognized content
[edit]An automated listing of the project's recognized content. This includes FA and GA content and nominations alongside articles, images, "In the news", and "Did you know .." content featured on our main page.
As of 22 August 2024, there are 7 featured and 16 good content items within WikiProject COVID-19 scope. This makes up 0.06% of all featured content and 0.04% of all good articles.
Automated reports
[edit]- Those English articles, ordered by amount of audience traffic
- Audience traffic in 80+ various language Wikipedias for the single article on the outbreak, sorted by audience traffic 9M undercount, omits old title "2019–20 coronavirus outbreak"
- All pages related to COVID-19 across all wikis as of March 17th, 2020. User:Diego (WMF) is considering making this report update daily. Ping him if you have questions or feedback.
- Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/COVID-19 articles by quality log
- list of COVID-19 deaths a Listeria report from Wikidata
- User:HostBot/Reports: All three reports are potentially useful for people monitoring pageviews and edits to COVID-19 articles.
- COVID-19 article report : Updates daily at 14:00 UTC. This report contains the previous-days pageview totals for all articles with the COVID-19 topic template. It also provides predicted quality scores for each article (at its latest revision when the report was run). Total count of articles that transclude the template, and the cumulative daily pageviews for those articles are also listed.
- Top 1000 report: (updates daily at 15:00 UTC) It provides running traffic counts for the most popular Wikipedia articles within the past 7 days. Many of these articles may be related to COVID-19.
- Social media traffic report: (updates daily, at around 15-17:00 UTC) Like the Top 1000 report, many of these articles are related to COVID-19. Given the rise troubling rise in COVID-related conspiracy theories propagated through social media, this report may be especially helpful for monitoring attempts to disrupt Wikipedia or undermine it by inserting disinformation. Feedback welcome on Meta.
Resources
[edit]Tips
[edit]Standard practices
[edit]Generally accepted standards that editors should attempt to follow.
- Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine) (Content guideline)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Medicine-related articles (Style guideline)
- Wikipedia:Conflicts of interest (medicine) (Supplemental essay)
- Wikipedia:Biomedical information (Supplemental essay)
Food for thought
[edit]- Wikipedia:In the apocalypse, there are no rules – but please read carefully
Sources
[edit]- The COVID-19/Sources page contains links to free resources to help us improve content related to COVID-19.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19/Organizations from Vaccine Safety Net – a list of organizations (Google doc) that have been vetted by the Vaccine Safety Net.
- Script
- WP:UPSD – a user script to identify a variety of unreliable sources
Current events
[edit]Current events contains a listing on an automated basis of importance news reports and related articles.
Maintenance
[edit]New articles
[edit]Help with assessment process and identify new articles which do not meet the criteria for inclusion and/or to "tag" them for any glaring issues that need attention. Most critical are copyright violations and defamatory material about living persons, followed closely by pages that are deliberately misleading; while identifying editors who seek to exploit our readers for financial gain.
Recent changes
[edit]- Watchlist of changes to articles listed at
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Article alerts
[edit]Article Alerts is an automated listing of Deletion talks, Requests for Comments, Featured article candidates, Did you know nominations, etc...related to COVID-19 content that requires your input! See also; Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/COVID-19.
Cleanup listing
[edit]The clean-up listing contains articles needing attention - including problems with page layout, spelling, grammar, technical errors, POV, neutrality and sourcing concerns (assuming the cleanup templates were placed correctly).
Most edited articles
[edit]28 edits | List of deaths due to COVID-19 |
27 edits | 2021–2023 inflation surge |
21 edits | Robert F. Kennedy Jr. |
15 edits | Public health |
15 edits | 2020s in fashion |
13 edits | COVID-19 pandemic in Greece |
13 edits | Public health emergency of international concern |
12 edits | Hushang Harirchiyan |
11 edits | ULT freezer |
6 edits | Phil Prosser |
These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last three days. Last updated 22 August 2024 by HotArticlesBot.
Task forces
[edit]Task forces allow for the organization and devoted talk pages for various specialized areas of interest.
Team name | Mission statement | Discussion |
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Case Count | We help maintain COVID-19 stats related to confirmed cases, deaths and recovery counts. See also COVID-19 deaths. | talk |
Equipment | We gather reliable information and inventory or shortages of COVID-19 medical equipment, per countries or territories. See also Raise the line. | talk |
Translations | We bring reliable information related to COVID-19 to as many languages as possible | talk |
Women in Red | We turn red links into blue ones in regards to women's biographies, women's works, and other women's issues related to COVID-19. | talk |
Wikimedia Joint Support |
Wikimedia UK and Wikimedia Medicine joint initiative to help tackle the issues around information reliability on articles. | talk |
Wikidata | We help on the wikidata side. See also wikidata India | talk |
Project pages
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Sanctions and consensus notices
[edit]Sanctions
[edit]Pages relating to the coronavirus are currently subject to active discretionary sanctions. In general, editors who repeatedly or seriously fail to edit in accordance with the purpose of Wikipedia, the expected standards of behaviour, or any normal editorial process may be sanctioned by any uninvolved administrator.
- Alerting editors
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- Talk page notice
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- Edit notice
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These templates can be used on talk pages to alert editors that consensus has been formed on certain points of interest related to all (or a subset of) COVID-19 articles. The major benefit of such templates is the avoidance of repeated discussions on contentious topics, especially from new or infrequent editors.
{{Current COVID-19 Project Consensus}}
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![]() | WikiProject COVID-19 consensus WikiProject COVID-19 aims to add to and build consensus for pages relating to COVID-19. They have so far discussed items listed below. Please discuss proposed improvements to them at the project talk page.
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{{Origins of COVID-19 (current consensus)}}
Origins of COVID-19: Current consensus
- There is no consensus on whether the lab leak theory is a "conspiracy theory" or a "minority scientific viewpoint". (RfC, February 2021)
- There is consensus against defining "disease and pandemic origins" (broadly speaking) as a form of biomedical information for the purpose of WP:MEDRS. However, information that already fits into biomedical information remains classified as such, even if it relates to disease and pandemic origins (e.g. genome sequences, symptom descriptions, phylogenetic trees). (RfC, May 2021)
- In multiple prior non-RFC discussions about manuscripts authored by Rossana Segreto and/or Yuri Deigin, editors have found the sources to be unreliable. Specifically, editors were not convinced by the credentials of the authors, and concerns were raised with the editorial oversight of the BioEssays "Problems & Paradigms" series. (Jan 2021, Jan 2021, Jan 2021, Feb 2021, June 2021, ...)
- The consensus of scientists is that SARS-CoV-2 is likely of zoonotic origin. (January 2021, May 2021, May 2021, May 2021, June 2021, June 2021, WP:NOLABLEAK (frequently cited in discussions))
- The March 2021 WHO report on the origins of SARS-CoV-2 should be referred to as the "WHO-convened report" or "WHO-convened study" on first usage in article prose, and may be abbreviated as "WHO report" or "WHO study" thereafter. (RfC, June 2021)
- The "manufactured bioweapon" idea should be described as a "conspiracy theory" in wiki-voice. (January 2021, February 2021, May 2021, May 2021, June 2021, June 2021, June 2021, June 2021, July 2021, July 2021, July 2021, August 2021)
- The scientific consensus (and the Frutos et al. sources ([1][2]) which support it), which dismisses the lab leak, should not be described as "
based in part on Shi [Zhengli]'s emailed answers.
" (RfC, December 2021) - The American FBI and Department of Energy finding that a lab leak was likely should not be mentioned in the lead of COVID-19 lab leak theory, because it is WP:UNDUE. (RFC, October 2023)
- The article COVID-19 lab leak theory may not go through the requested moves process between 4 March 2024 and 3 March 2025. (RM, March 2024)
{{COVID-19 treatments (current consensus)}}
Treatments for COVID-19: Current consensus
A note on WP:MEDRS: Per this Wikipedia policy, we must rely on the highest quality secondary sources and the recommendations of professional organizations and government bodies when determining the scientific consensus about medical treatments.
- Ivermectin: The highest quality sources (1 2 3 4) suggest Ivermectin is not an effective treatment for COVID-19. In all likelihood, ivermectin does not reduce all-cause mortality (moderate certainty) or improve quality of life (high certainty) when used to treat COVID-19 in the outpatient setting (4). Recommendations from relevant organizations can be summarized as:
Evidence of efficacy for ivermectin is inconclusive. It should not be used outside of clinical trials.
(May 2021, June 2021, June 2021, July 2021, July 2021) (WHO, FDA, IDSA, ASHP, CDC, NIH) - Chloroquine & hydroxychloroquine: The highest quality sources (1 2 3 4) demonstrate that neither is effective for treating COVID-19. These analyses accounted for use both alone and in combination with azithromycin. Some data suggest their usage may worsen outcomes. Recommendations from relevant organizations can be summarized:
Neither hydroxychloroquine nor chloroquine should be used, either alone or in combination with azithromycin, in inpatient or outpatient settings.
(July 2020, Aug 2020, Sep 2020, May 2021) (WHO, FDA, IDSA, ASHP, NIH) - Ivmmeta.com, c19ivermectin.com, c19hcq.com, hcqmeta.com, trialsitenews.com, etc: These sites are not reliable. The authors are pseudonymous. The findings have not been subject to peer review. We must rely on expert opinion, which describes these sites as unreliable. From published criticisms (1 2 3 4 5), it is clear that these analyses violate basic methodological norms which are known to cause spurious or false conclusions. These analyses include studies which have very small sample sizes, widely different dosages of treatment, open-label designs, different incompatible outcome measures, poor-quality control groups, and ad-hoc un-published trials which themselves did not undergo peer-review. (Dec 2020, Jan 2021, Feb 2021)
Participants
[edit]Anyone may join, including YOU!
Internal coverage of Wikipedia's efforts
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Newsletter
[edit]- "A new WikiProject responding to the pandemic" (an interview with User:Another Believer), WikiProject Tree of Life newsletter, March 2020—Issue 012
The Signpost
[edit]- 2020-03-29/Community view – "Wikimedia community responds to COVID-19"
- 2020-03-29/WikiProject report – WikiProject COVID-19: A WikiProject Report
- 2020-03-29/Special report – "Wikipedia on COVID-19: what we publish and why it matters"
- 2020-04-26/In the media – "Coronavirus, again and again"
- 2020-04-26/By the numbers – "Open data and COVID-19: Wikipedia as an informational resource during the pandemic"
- 2020-04-26/Traffic report – "Disease the Rhythm of the Night"
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Single/2022-11-28#Recent_research
Wikimedia New York City symposium
[edit]The symposium on Wikipedia and COVID-19 hosted by Wikimedia New York City on May 9 answered questions the public and press may have about Wikipedia's coverage of the pandemic. Featured speakers included User:Netha Hussain, User:Another Believer, User:TMorata, and User:Bluerasberry.
External links
[edit]Academic research
[edit]- Google scholar search - COVID-19 - Coronavirus disease 2019
- COVID-19 Digital Observatory: a project that aims to collect, aggregate, distribute, and document public social data from digital communication platforms in relation to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. The project is being coordinated by the Community Data Science Collective and Pushshift.
- covid19hg.org: COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative is a clearing house for genetic research; containing hundreds of registered studies.
Media coverage of Wikipedia's efforts
[edit]- 2020-02-09: On Wikipedia, a fight is raging over coronavirus disinformation by Wired (User:Doc James involved)
- 2020-02-11: Coronavirus Has a Name: The Deadly Disease Is Covid-19 by Wired
- 2020-03-15: People First: Wikimedia’s Response to COVID-19 by Wikimedia
- 2020-03-19: The Coronavirus Is Stress-Testing Wikipedia’s Policies by Slate
- 2020-03-24: Meet the Wikipedia editors fighting to keep coronavirus pages accurate - by The Daily Dot
- 2020-03-24: Weddings for Wikipedia: Permanent corona virus updates by Heise Online (in German)
- 2020-04-03: Why Wikipedia is winning against the coronavirus 'infodemic' by The Telegraph
- 2020-04-04: Meet some of the women sharing reliable COVID-19 information with the world on Wikipedia by Wikimedia
- 2020-04-08: Why Wikipedia Is Immune to Coronavirus by Haaretz
- 2020-04-15: El coronavirus pone a prueba Wikipedia by Hoy (in Spanish)
- 2020-04-22: On Wikipedia, Quora & Twitter, battle rages against communalisation of Covid-19, Jamaat event by The Times of India
- 2020-05-24: The rise of Wikipedia as a source of medical information CBS News
- 2020-05-27: Future Historians Will Rely on Wikipedia’s COVID-19 Coverage by Slate
- 2020-08-07: Andrews, Travis M. "Covid-19 is one of Wikipedia's biggest challenges ever. Here's how the site is handling it". The Washington Post.
- 2020-10-22: McNeil Jr., Donald G. (22 October 2020). "Wikipedia and W.H.O. Join to Combat Covid-19 Misinformation". The New York Times.
- 2021-02-26: Sachdev, Shaan. "Wikipedia's Sprawling, Awe-Inspiring Coverage of the Pandemic". The New Republic.
- 2021-06-27: Ryan, Jackson. "Wikipedia is at war over the coronavirus lab leak theory". CNET.
Originally published with the headline 'Inside Wikipedia's endless war over the coronavirus lab leak theory'
- 2021-07-21 DiResta, Renée. "Institutional Authority Has Vanished. Wikipedia Points to the Answer". The Atlantic.
- https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=lang_en&id=fGdxEAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA37#v=onepage&q&f=false
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