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This page is under the scope of WikiProject COVID-19.

    This page is under the scope of WikiProject COVID-19.

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    Current consensus

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    NOTE: The following is a list of material maintained on grounds that it represents current consensus for the articles under the scope of this project. In accordance with Wikipedia:General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019, ("prohibitions on the addition or removal of certain content except when consensus for the edit exists") changes of the material listed below in this article must be discussed first, and repeated offenses against established consensus may result in administrative action. It is recommended to link to this list in your edit summary when reverting, as [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject COVID-19#Current consensus]], item [n]. To ensure you are viewing the current list, you may wish to purge this page.

    General

    1. Superseded by TfD October 2020 and later practice - consult regular {{Current}} guidance.
    2. 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)
    3. For infoboxes on the main articles of countries, use Wuhan, Hubei, China for the origin parameter. (March 2020)
    4. "Social distancing" is generally preferred over "physical distancing". (April 2020, May 2020)

    Page title

    1. 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).
    2. 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

    1. 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)
    2. There is no consensus about whether the legend, the date, and other elements should appear in the map image itself. (May 2020)
    3. 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)
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    There is a requested move discussion at Talk:SARS-related coronavirus#Requested move 15 August 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. SilverLocust 💬 05:55, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Malaysia and New Zealand timelines

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    I have been working on the Malaysian and New Zealand COVID-19 timeline pages for the past four years and eight months. I am thinking of ending my work on those timelines at the end of December 2024. I am the only person working on those two pages. Both countries no longer treat COVID-19 as a pandemic and have ended most lockdown and special isolation measures. Wikipedia no longer has a global timeline. Just wanted to get feedback from other users. Andykatib (talk) 04:16, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    @Andykatib: I completely support this. Thank you very much for working on those and keeping them up-to-date. Much better than a lot of articles on country-specific responses to COVID-19 which usually just fade out in 2021 or 2022 due to steep decline in editor interest in this topic, and despite their heavy detail about 2020, lack any info at all about even the broadest strokes of the later pandemic, such as the lifting of restrictions whose imposition is described. Perhaps these you might like to review and add some 'closure' to. Just throwing that out there. Crossroads -talk- 22:26, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Hi @Crossroads:, thanks for getting in touch. Personally, I wouldn't consider myself an expert on COVID-19. Outside of New Zealand and to some extent Malaysia, my knowledge and expertise of Covid responses would be patchy so I don't think I would be the best editor for that task. Have moved onto other mainly New Zealand topics on Wikipedia and also edit on Wookieepedia. I will think about it but I would probably need help for such a project. Cheers. Andykatib (talk) 23:02, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Help the Wikimedia Foundation better understand how on-wiki collaborations work

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    The Campaigns team at the Wikimedia Foundation is interested in learning from diverse editors that have experience joining and working on WikiProjects, Campaigns, and other kinds of on-wiki collaboration. We need your help:

    Whatever input you bring to the two spaces will help us make better decisions about next steps beyond the current tools we support. Astinson (WMF) (talk) 18:12, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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