Talk:Coronation/1

Sysonyms?

dont the two wikilinks used in the article (Covid19 and sarscov2) mean the same thung? Ottawahitech (talk) 10:59, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

The latter is the virus, the former is the illness caused by the virus. Nikkimaria (talk) 23:46, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello

I'm leaning towards having a timely overview at the top, as well as a longer list of links and references at the bottom. The top may change + be archived every so often, and will be closer to a [recent changes] for the whole.

Hello @Quiddity:, @Ottawahitech:, @Nikkimaria:, @Generish: as you've been editing, open to suggestions on areas of focus, or regular updates/overlays to track. –SJ talk  01:46, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

@SJ:, thanks for pinging me, and for bringing back enthusiasm to this meta page.

Pretty much all sister projects now have dedicated areas with COVID-19 information: wikivoyage, wikiversity, wikiquote, wikinews, wikibooks, I have not checked out wikisource yet. Wikipedia has a category with hundreds of subcategories and articles, a Wikiproject and probably a portal too. Commons and Simple also have complete categories dealing with covid-related material. What is the best way to display links to these wmf communities, how do we find out what sort of help these communities need without flooding them with too many newbies? Ottawahitech (talk) 11:47, 30 March 2020 (UTC

pinging @Sj: Ottawahitech (talk) 00:17, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

@Sj: Hiyo. I'm (purposefully) not following this pandemic in detail, so can't help much, but I do suggest a hatnote linking to Special:MyLanguage/COVID-19. -- Thanks for everything, hope you're a-ok. :) Quiddity (talk) 05:26, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

I cannot add the wiki-link above to my watchlist. Ottawahitech (talk) 16:43, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

sporadic reports of a second infection

There have been spordic reports of recovered patients testng positive for a second time. For example: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/27/japanese-woman-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-for-second-time and https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3076989/coronavirus-10pc-recovered-patients-test-positive-later-say

I can't find anything on wikipedia that covers this and the article on w:Nucleic acid test looks like it could use some help. Is ths the sort of link we should add to coronatin. Your views please. Ottawahitech (talk) 02:34, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Inumo compromised people

I was listening to w:NPR earlier where they interviwed an w:immunocompromised woman on w:Here and Now. I later searched and found this article about the topic at https://crosscut.com/2020/03/coronavirus-and-immunocompromised-your-questions-answered, but I don't want to repeat information that is probably better described on enwiki or at Simple. Is there an easy way to determine if information on the topic is already available? Am I making sense? Ottawahitech (talk) 22:08, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Thoughts on imagemapping

Aside: Extension:ImageMap exists and can be used for clickable images that link out to different pages. –SJ talk 

@Sj: We have not seen you participating here for a few days. I hope you are still interested in the development of this page? Ottawahitech (talk) 18:32, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Overall purpose

This looks like a neat little page, but I'm a bit at a loss as to how specifically we're supposed to help. What's it's overall goal? Darkfrog24 (talk) 18:29, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

I cannot speak for others, but the reason I contribute here is because the COVID-19 article on meta, where most land on, appears to be controlled by the meta-authorities. I prefer to be involved in community efforts, so when I have the time I contribute here instead. Ottawahitech (talk) 14:45, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

The Meta-Wiki COVID-19 article seems to focus specifically on what the pandemic means for Project Wiki. It looks like that page and this one just serve different audiences. Darkfrog24 (talk) 14:16, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Hmmm... I don't know what you mean by Project Wiki. Which audiences do these two pages serve in your opinion? Ottawahitech (talk) 15:58, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

By Project Wiki I mean every Wikipedia in every language, Wikidata, Wikinews, Meta-Wiki, Wikitionary, all together. Darkfrog24 (talk) 16:51, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Please google "crisis" and tell us what you see

I just googled this term and was surprised to see the enwiki entry way at the bottom of the search results. on top I saw a oneliner:

About 3,040,000,000 results (0.63 seconds)

and right after there was a short message from Health Canada.

Just curious if others are seeing the same. Thanks in advance, Ottawahitech (talk) 15:56, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

[1]. Nikkimaria (talk) 01:03, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Racial and gender breakdown of cases

I heard (and saw graphs) on TV about African-Americans being affected much more than others. I also remember seeing a Canadian report that said women were 55% of the total reported, a statistic that meant nothing at the time since the sample was very small. I am not familiar with work being done on enwiki in this regards, but I know there is a tremendous amount of effort and good results coming out of it.

The problem, I believe, is that we need some embassadors to translate this work into something that is useful for the average person on the street, since it appears that the survivours are those with more knowledge about the dos and don'ts. Does everyone know how important social distancing is? Does everyone have the luxury of sitting home to watch TV, instead of having to continue going out to work for a living? As an example I saw a social network post by a young person who was complaining that there was no social distancing at the construction site where they work.

Any comments, speculation, anything? Ottawahitech (talk) 18:48, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

I added some content to that effect to Simple English: [2] Darkfrog24 (talk) 14:10, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

:: CovidTracking has a good dashboard w/ racial and ethnic breakdowns for the US; I haven't seen the equivalent globally yet. –SJ talk  22:09, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

Off topic?

I was surfing the web looking for something to ignite some interest in this page which is not getting a lot of attention, and happened to bump into a Wikipedia weekly podcast that I was not aware of. It was actually what appeared to me to be a recording of a recent videoconference in which 5 participants (one or two of whom I actually recognized) were displayed in their own little video box.

Anyway, before I get off track here, a lot of the discussion revolved around COVID-19, how the community is handling it, and how it is an opportunity to recruit new wikipedians. At least according to my selective hearing. Since this is not a social networking platform I just wondered if anyone else here is interested in discussing or commenting on the COVID-19 aspects of this podcast? Ottawahitech (talk) 14:56, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

I haven't seen the podcast, but a lot of highly educated people are finding themselves unemployed and stuck at home with nothing intellectually stimulating to do. It sounds like a lot of them might want to donate their time to Wikiprojects on a temporary basis. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if "more people edit Wikiprojects when unemployment is high" turns out to be an ongoing pattern. Wikipedia boomed in the 00's when the unemployment rate in the U.S. was very high and it dropped when the economy improved. Darkfrog24 (talk) 14:12, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Earlier overviews, to incorporate into the Wikipedia wikiproject

Global viz

Rough aggregate data: Plague.com , HealthMap

• • https://ncov2019.live
  • https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/geographical-distribution-2019-ncov-cases
  • https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6?mod=article_inline
  • https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Regional:

this; China, Singapore, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam; Data only: covidtracking.com (US)

Model catalogs

• Examples: (5/20 - Global: HealthMap , China: Open Access Epidemiological Data from COVID-19)

• Example city models: (links to city dashes)

Initiatives

• CZI COVID task force - | Database of research articles | CORD-19 | Open Source initiatives — software, hardware and open data

Vis and Maps: Commons, Plague.com (arcgis), ... see also visualizations

Visual essays: Act Today or People Will Die

External groups + contacts : roster

• Data protocols: everyone needs to improve this, for replicable + verifiable data. Example: covidtracking
• Doc sharing: aggregated notes + documents.