Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19

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, there are  articles  within the scope of WikiProject COVID-19. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, project pages, etcetera, there are  pages in the project.

Select [►] to view all reader oriented  content  about COVID-19

Category
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Templates
Select [►] to view all templates  contains English Wikipedia's main portfolio of articles related to COVID-19 as seen below. For the sidebar used on many articles see

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.

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, there are ' featured and '  good content items within WikiProject COVID-19 scope. This makes up % of all featured content and % of all good articles.

Tips

 * WikiProject COVID-19/New article tips

Standard practices
Generally accepted standards that editors should attempt to follow.
 * Identifying reliable sources (medicine) (Content guideline)
 * Manual of Style/Medicine-related articles (Style guideline)
 * Conflicts of interest (medicine) (Supplemental essay)
 * Biomedical information (Supplemental essay)

Food for thought

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

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

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.

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; WikiProject Deletion sorting/COVID-19.

Cleanup listing
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).

Project pages
Select [►] to view all WikiProject COVID-19 project pages or
 * View sub-pages of Wikipedia:


 * Project templates

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.

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


 * Talk page notice


 * Edit notice

Participants
Anyone may join, including YOU!

Newsletter

 * "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_Signpost/Single/2022-11-28

Wikimedia New York City symposium


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

Academic research

 * Google scholar search -  -
 * 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:
 * 2020-10-22:
 * 2021-02-26:
 * 2021-06-27:
 * 2021-07-21
 * https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=lang_en&id=fGdxEAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA37#v=onepage&q&f=false

Wikimedia sister projects

 * d:Wikidata:WikiProject COVID-19
 * d:Wikidata:WikiProject Humanitarian Wikidata
 * d:Wikidata:WikiProject Zika Corpus
 * meta:COVID-19
 * meta:WikiCite
 * meta:WikiProject remote event participation