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WikiProject COVID-19

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I've created WikiProject COVID-19 as a temporary or permanent WikiProject and invite editors to use this space for discussing ways to improve coverage of the ongoing 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. Please bring your ideas to the project/talk page. Stay safe, ---Another Believer (Talk) 16:56, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I will try my best Imadtamdz5 (talk) 23:17, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Charts suggestion?

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Do you have any preferences regarding the charts? things you like/dislike/wish be added Vegetableroof (talk) 12:15, 8 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Illustration of the mid-May disappearance of noise in the counts

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See but WP:COI. Algeria is right now world champion in terms of making Poisson noise almost disappear from the daily SARS-CoV-2 counts. In other words, the counts cannot really be interpreted literally as encyclopedic "knowledge"; they are "official counts" only. See arXiv:2007.11779, Zenodo3951152 for the full research paper (presently a preprint). I haven't (so far) heard of any innocent explanations of the missing noise. Boud (talk) 17:39, 2 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The analysis is peer-reviewed and published in PeerJ under CC-BY (so its content is directly usable on the Wikimedia wikis). The Algerian data is "strongly sub-Poissonian" per the abstract of the paper; in other words, it's highly suspicious because it's much too smooth. And that is for the final version of the paper including data through to May 2021. Apparently Ministry of Health officials weren't concerned about the Ministry being outed as explained above in ... August 2020. Here's the reference in case anyone wishes to use it: <ref name="Roukema2021">{{cite journal | last1 = Roukema | first1 = Boudewijn F. | author1-link = | title = Anti-clustering in the national SARS-CoV-2 daily infection counts | journal = [[PeerJ]] | volume = 9 | pages = e11856 | date = 2021-08-27 | url = https://peerj.com/articles/11856 | issn = 2167-8359 | doi = 10.7717/peerj.11856 | id = {{zenodo|5262698}} |arxiv=2007.11779 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210827184744if_/https://peerj.com/articles/11856 | archive-date= 2021-08-27 |url-status=live }}</ref> Boud (talk) 00:29, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]