Wikipedia talk:WikiProject COVID-19/Sources

Data - added worldometers.info/coronavirus

I added worldometers/coronavirus to the Data group. It seems up to the minute information and more generally readable. Feel free to delete if not wanted, but I thought it was a candidate. Cheers Markbassett (talk) 18:32, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

SPARC Europe Strategy

https://sparceurope.org/covid-19-and-open-science/

Scholastica

https://blog.scholasticahq.com/post/navigating-covid-19-resources-institutions-scholars/

Handbook collating knowledge on different aspects of COVID-19

There is a lot of information here, but not sure where it would fit on this page

• https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/home

John Cummings (talk) 13:57, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

OECD iLibrary

Just added this as a publisher offering free access to COVID content ("for the next few months"). Among other things, looks like they publish a series of health profiles of different countries, and I imagine some of their economic materials could come in handy for anyone working on articles related to the broader social/economic impact of the virus and response. Cheers, Accedie^{talk to me} 21:11, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Source Listing Concern

Hello, I am concerned about the sources listed in the COVID 19 pandemic. There are some that I am not familiar with. I also have not heard of some sources some might not be trusted. I do believe we may have to check our sources in the meantime. Please note that I was referred to by @Sdkb: as we had a discussion. Personisgaming (talk) 13:10, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

@Personisgaming: Can you give names of any specific sources in the article that you have concerns about? MarkZusab (talk) 14:12, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

@MarkZusab: I have them on my page. Personisgaming (talk) 15:00, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

White House 50-State Report

https://twitter.com/l_e_whyte/status/1335933756696358915

https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20420661-all_states_11_29_2020#document/p97

From the Center for Public Integrity.

kencf0618 (talk) 00:24, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

OED

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is tracking COVID-19.

"As time goes on, we’re sure to come up with other abbreviations; for example ‘rona’ is currently trending in Australia and the U.S." (as of July 2020).

https://public.oed.com/blog/july-2020-update-scientific-terminology-of-covid-19/

Corpora-fu:

https://public.oed.com/blog/using-corpora-to-track-the-language-of-covid-19-update-2/

kencf0618 (talk) 01:39, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Demographics of Eritrea has an RFC

Demographics of Eritrea has an RFC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you.

Development of the article COVID-19 pandemic in Eritrea, such as providing population-normalised data, will depend by a factor of two on which population estimate is used: the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Population Division UN DESA 2019 Revision, which gives 3.55 million for 2020, or websites that appear to use older data and give a 2020/2021 value of about 6 million. This issue potentially affects both the Eritrea-specific page and global COVID-19 pages, tables and graphs with population-normalised data. People here have experience in deciding what data to use from what sources, so participation of previously uninvolved Wikipedians in the RfC could help to reach consensus. Boud (talk) 21:59, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

WP:MEDRS

See also the discussion in Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_COVID-19#WP:MEDRS_cleanup_needed_at_the_COVID-19_vaccine_article

This crucial policy must be respected especially in COVID-19 related articles. The proliferation of preprints in articles is something we should fight and not encourage. We were including in the list of sources MedRxv which was a big mistake. If any editor is not aware of WP:MEDRS they should really read it before editing as sanctions can be applied if WP:MEDRS is not followed. Maybe we should include a big disclaimer above this list. FYI Ftrebien -- {{u|Gtoffoletto}}  ^talk 13:44, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

Official sources versus reliable sources

I've started an essay Wikipedia:Reliability of open government data, because the way we present official sources without warning the reader risks being disinformation in many cases. The issue is non-trivial, and I think people editing the essay may help to explore possible solutions. Boud (talk) 23:26, 16 September 2021 (UTC)