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Section sizes

Section size for COVID-19 pandemic in Latvia (33 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	3,585	3,585
Background	2,615	2,615
Timeline	366	113,554
January 2020	935	935
February 2020	3,767	3,767
March 2020	14,507	14,507
Mid 2020	11,333	11,333
October 2020	6,403	6,403
November 2020	7,803	7,803
December 2020	4,248	4,248
January 2021	5,353	5,353
February 2021	8,846	8,846
March 2021	8,901	8,901
April 2021	2,273	2,273
May 2021	3,730	3,730
June 2021	4,639	4,639
July 2021	4,844	4,844
August 2021	4,697	4,697
September 2021	4,619	4,619
October 2021	4,631	4,631
November 2021	4,550	4,550
December 2021	2,811	2,811
January 2022	1,762	1,762
February 2022	1,403	1,403
May 2022	690	690
May 2023	443	443
Statistics	18	43,240
Cumulative number of cases, recoveries and deaths	19,505	19,505
New cases per day	9,794	9,794
Deaths per day	13,923	13,923
See also	97	97
References	44	44
External links	866	866
Total	164,001	164,001

WikiProject COVID-19

I've created WikiProject COVID-19 as a temporary or permanent WikiProject and invite editors to use this space for discussing ways to improve coverage of the ongoing 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. Please bring your ideas to the project/talk page. Stay safe, --Another Believer _(Talk) 17:44, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Map

@LV1000: I'm not interested in edit wars, nor do I hate your map :) Only reason I gave was in the edit box "this version is raster". By that I meant Raster graphics vs Vector graphics, where for such cases like logos, maps, graphs etc. vector graphics are better (easily resized without artifacts/easier for people to edit/smaller file sizes). Often people use Inkscape, but there are other options.

The other consideration was "updated" - Pierīga changed, Vidzeme wasn't colourized (see here; archived from 7pm, no idea how it was when you uploaded it). Often people download the old file, update it and then upload it as a new version to the same page if it's a diagram or graphic and it has changed in time (example, see below file).

Anyways, I'd like to stay on good/neutral terms (as it was) and see another editor help in wikipedia, both English and Latvian. --silraks (talk) 22:38, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The image should definitely be SVG so we can update it in the future for an ongoing event. JPGs/PNG are really not suitable for this, even if someone uploads a slightly newer version. So I concur with above. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 19:07, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Latvia medical cases

Do we want to keep using {{COVID-19 pandemic data/Latvia medical cases}}? It's not been updated since May and I don't think anyone has the enthusiasm to do so. Given we are in the second year of these statistics, that's already more than 400 rows for the table and will likely be 2 years of numbers. It seems extremely cumbersome when we have much more compact charts and {{COVID-19 pandemic data/Latvia medical cases chart}} graphs. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 11:40, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]