Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19

WikiProject COVID-19
Shortcut	WP:COVID-19, WP:COVID, WP:CORONA, WP:CORONAVIRUS, WP:19
Category	WikiProject COVID-19
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Parent; project(s)	Disaster management, Medicine, Viruses
Child; project(s)	COVID-19/Case Count Task Force, COVID-19/Equipment Task Force, COVID-19/Translation Task Force
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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

As of 24 December 2024, there are 2,485 articles within the scope of WikiProject COVID-19. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, project pages, etcetera, there are 7,986 pages in the project.

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COVID-19 (4 C, 20 P)

Templates

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COVID-19 pandemic templates (6 C, 27 P)

{{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

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: 100% complete

COVID-19 articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA			1	1			2
FM					5		5
GA	2		1	13			16
B	4	29	42	102			177
C	9	68	188	495		3	763
Start	1	44	159	820		1	1,025
Stub		10	45	271		2	328
List	2	25	38	107			172
Category					989		989
Disambig					26		26
File					150		150
Portal					2		2
Project					45		45
Redirect		2	15	44	381		442
Template					534		534
NA				2	14		16
Other					14		14
Assessed	18	178	489	1,855	2,160	6	4,706
Unassessed						1	1
Total	18	178	489	1,855	2,160	7	4,707
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 10,708			Ω = 4.63

Recognized content

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 24 December 2024, there are 2 featured and 16 good content items within WikiProject COVID-19 scope. This makes up 0.02% of all featured content and 0.04% of all good articles.

Featured images

Scanning electron microscope image of SARS-CoV-2 emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab
Transmission electron microscope image of SARS-CoV-2 isolated from a patient in the U.S.

Automated reports

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

Tips

Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19/New article tips

Standard practices

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

Wikipedia:In the apocalypse, there are no rules – but please read carefully

Sources

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

Current events contains a listing on an automated basis of importance news reports and related articles.

Maintenance

New articles

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

Watchlist of changes to articles listed at Category:COVID-19

Watchlist of changes to articles listed at {{COVID-19 pandemic}}.

Article alerts

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

clean-up listing for COVID-19

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

18 edits	Views of Elon Musk
17 edits	Grand Theft Hamlet
10 edits	Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on television
10 edits	Nimesh Gupta
8 edits	COVID-19 pandemic and animals
7 edits	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
4 edits	COVID-19 vaccine
4 edits	Erin Elizabeth
3 edits	Canada convoy protest
3 edits	COVID-19 pandemic in the Northern Mariana Islands

These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last three days. Last updated 24 December 2024 by HotArticlesBot.

Task forces

Task forces allow for the organization and devoted talk pages for various specialized areas of interest.

Team name	Mission statement	Discussion
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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WikiProject COVID-19 (3 C, 29 P)

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Project templates

Wikicode Results Used in

Portal (displays on mobile versions)

{{Portal-inline|Coronavirus disease 2019}} Coronavirus disease 2019 portal linked pages

{{Portal|Coronavirus disease 2019}}

linked pages

Talk page assessment template. See Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19/Assessment for more information on parameters.

{{WikiProject COVID-19|class=B|importance=mid|needs-image=|category=no}}

COVID-19 B‑class Mid‑importance

	COVID-19 portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject COVID-19, a project to coordinate efforts to improve all COVID-19-related articles. If you would like to help, you are invited to join and to participate in project discussions.COVID-19Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19Template:WikiProject COVID-19COVID-19
B	This article has been rated as B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

linked pages

Userboxes

{{User WikiProject COVID-19}}

This user is a participant in WikiProject COVID-19.

linked pages

{{User suffers COVID-19}}

This user is suffering from
COVID-19.

linked pages

{{User COVID-19}}

This user survived an infection of
COVID-19.

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{{User COVID-19 more}}

This user survived a
COVID-19 infection but continues to suffer health problems from it.

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{{User COVID-19 vaccine}}

This user has been vaccinated against COVID-19.

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{{User COVID-19 vaccine|first-dose=yes}}

This user has received the first dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine.

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Barnstars to thank and recognize anyone who has made significant contributions to Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the Coronavirus disease 2019.

{{subst:COVID-19 Barnstar|1=put your message here ~~~~}}

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Project navigation

{{WikiProject COVID-19 footer|state=collapsed}}

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Talk Page Member Bar

{{COVID-19WikiProject-Member}}

This user is a member of WikiProject COVID-19, a WikiProject which aims to expand coverage of COVID-19 on Wikipedia. Please feel free to join us.

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Sanctions and consensus notices

Sanctions

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

To alert editors of this community sanction in effect please use:

{{subst:Ds/alert|topic=covid}}

Talk page notice

{{Ds/talk notice|covid}}

Edit notice

{{COVID19 DS editnotice}}

{{Ds/editnotice|Restriction|topic=covid}}

Consensus

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}} (expanded by default, but collapsible with the parameter: |collapsed=yes)

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.

General

Superseded by TfD October 2020 and later practice - consult regular {{Current}} guidance.

Refrain from using Worldometer (worldometers.info) as a source due to common errors being observed as noted on the Case Count Task Force common errors page. (April 2020, April 2020)

For infoboxes on the main articles of countries, use Wuhan, Hubei, China for the origin parameter. (March 2020)

"Social distancing" is generally preferred over "physical distancing". (April 2020, May 2020)

Page title

COVID-19 (full caps) is preferable in the body of all articles, and in the title of all articles/category pages/etc.(RM April 2020, including the main article itself, RM March 2021).

SARS-CoV-2 (exact capitalisation and punctuation) is the common name of the virus and should be used for the main article's title, as well as in the body of all articles, and in the title of all other articles/category pages/etc. (June 2022, overturning April 2020)

Map

There is no consensus about which color schemes to use, but they should be consistent within articles as much as possible. There is agreement that there should be six levels of shading, plus gray for areas with no instances or no data. (May 2020)

There is no consensus about whether the legend, the date, and other elements should appear in the map image itself. (May 2020)

For map legends, ranges should use fixed round numbers (as opposed to updating dynamically). There is no consensus on what base population to use for per capita maps. (May 2020)

To ensure you are viewing the current list, you may wish to purge this page.

{{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)

Which pages use this template?

Last updated (diff) on 30 November 2024 by Shibbolethink (t · c)

{{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)

Which pages use this template?

Last updated (diff) on 27 February 2023 by Sumanuil (t · c)

Participants

Anyone may join, including YOU!

Internal coverage of Wikipedia's efforts

"A new WikiProject responding to the pandemic" (an interview with User:Another Believer), WikiProject Tree of Life newsletter, March 2020—Issue 012

The Signpost

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

Symposium on Wikipedia and COVID-19

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.

Watch on YouTube
Watch on Facebook

External links

Academic research

Scholia has a profile for SARS-CoV-2 (Q82069695).

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

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.
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