Wikipedia talk:WikiProject COVID-19/WMUK-WPMEDF Joint Support Task Force

Organizing Our Efforts
Thank you reaching out. I was wondering if it made sense to identify what expertise everyone on the task force had to then designate sections of the article that they could closely monitor. With so many edits happening on some of these articles, it's hard to keep track of all the changes, but if you someone is looking at the same section daily, they can easily spot something new that needs to be verified. What are your thoughts? Moksha88 (talk) 01:41, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * That sounds like a good approach to me. I hope that this group will grow so we'll have more people to coordinate, but for now I'm going to ping the other people who've signed up: . Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 16:19, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your efforts: they are appreciated. If you want to help bring some structure to the tasks ahead of us, please go ahead and do that. For myself, I only watchlist Coronavirus disease 2019, but scan other articles on a random basis just for fact-checking. I find that a lot of sources are used in common, so that's one way to get some idea of what the most usable sources have to say. --RexxS (talk) 17:43, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * My apologies, it's been crazy where I work - so much that I, a non-clinician, was reassigned patient care responsibilities. I am hoping to catch back up over the next few days. There's definitely a lot of poor quality references I've found in the Coronavirus disease 2019 article so far and will keep fact checking. I've worked in clinical trials and have a decent familiarity with biomedical literature, so if you feel I can better apply myself in another article, just let me know. Moksha88 (talk) 15:55, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

Watchlist
I've just created a list of the 1,858 pages(!) listed under Category:2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. The idea is that by using the recent changes button it's easier to see edits as they come in, effectively creating a project watchlist. I used AWB to create the list and will be updating it regularly. There is some stuff like articles sitting under the category for impact on sport or impact on TV which could usefully be spun out in case the watchlist is swamped or people want to prioritise particular topics. Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 16:22, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

And for anyone who wants to test it out, here's the watchlist. Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 16:24, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Keeping links up to date
As websites move about, some links are going to stop working or become redirects, for example UK COVID-19 data is at https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ replacing https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/f94c3c90da5b4e9f9a0b19484dd4bb14

When you spot a broken link, you can check where else it's used with the insource search function, eg: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?cirrusUserTesting=glent_m0&sort=relevance&search=insource%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.arcgis.com%2Fapps%2Fopsdashboard%2Findex.html%23%2Ff94c3c90da5b4e9f9a0b19484dd4bb14%22&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&advancedSearch-current=%7B%7D&ns0=1

As of writing the above link will give four results but that should drop to 0 soon as I'll be replacing them. Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 09:37, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

Keep an eye out for dated information
Hi everyone. With information changing on a daily basis, articles can get out of date quickly especially with so many to cover. I've been pottering around updating figures here and there. Large countries seem to have people updating the key figures on a regular basis, but articles on regions or cities are more likely to be out of date. So perhaps take a few minutes to check an article in Category:2019–20 coronavirus pandemic by location which needs their key figures updating. Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 16:25, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Visitor attractions
I've just asked a question at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject COVID-19 about how to mention COVID-19 in articles about visitor attractions (eg: museums, national parks, historic sites etc). Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 17:28, 15 May 2020 (UTC)