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Tanzania
Tanzania stopped publishing figures on coronavirus cases on 29 April. I have added a note to say so, but I think that the figures in the table should be changed to "No data". Is there consensus for this? Dudley Miles (talk) 11:42, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
- Dudley Miles, as per the standard set by UK recoveries, I'll do it myself if no one else comments on this in the next... 48 hours? [Depends on how active this page is anyway–I don't know much about Skdb and Capewearer's respective sleep schedules.]
- Thanks for the reminder! Cheers, u|RayDeeUx (contribs | talk page) 23:59, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
- Dudley Miles, I have updated the template now to reflect the lack of updates from that location. Cheers, u|RayDeeUx (contribs | talk page) 01:42, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks for sorting it out. Dudley Miles (talk) 08:39, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
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2405:204:50A6:3ADC:2469:1556:D5C5:BCDF (talk) 15:34, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
- Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 15:46, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 25 June 2020 - Typo on French website
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To fix a typo on the following line:
|<!--Please do not replace the following source with an aggregate source if the aggregate source does not provide more up-to-date details, as this primary source is a more reliable source--><!--Please simply comment out the following source if removing the citation, as this is a government source, and likely will be referenced again in the future--><ref name="gov-fr">{{cite web|url=https://www.gouvernement.fr/info-coronavirus/carte-et-donnees|title=info coronavirus covid-19|work=Gouvernment.fr|language=fr |access-date=24 June 2020}}</ref>
Request: change "work=Gouvernment.fr" to "work=Gouvernement.fr" Trazfr (talk) 12:07, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
Error en el numero de infectados de Portugal
Hoy 28/06/2020 figura como 411646 y el numero correcto es 41646
- Already done. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 16:13, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
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Portugal has 41,646 and not 411,646. Please get this information right, thank you. Zemariap1998 (talk) 01:53, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
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For Costa Rica you are reporting 125 when there are only 15 officially reported. Juancacr1999 (talk) 14:40, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
- Done Zoozaz1 (talk) 15:49, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
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The number of deaths for Costa Rica is wrong as per the page cited as the source: it is only 15 not 125 201.199.90.155 (talk) 15:09, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
- Done Zoozaz1 (talk) 15:49, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
Deaths in Costa Rica
The total amount of deaths in Costa Rica is 15, to date.
National Health Ministry webpage
- Done Zoozaz1 (talk) 15:49, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
Kuwait error - on 1 July 2020
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The number for Kuwait is in error. The number listed is 46,1940 (Notice the comma in the wrong place). It should be 46,940. See this news article: https://www.khaleejtimes.com/coronavirus-pandemic/coronavirus-kuwait-reports-745-new-covid-19-cases Lonerock (talk) 16:14, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
- Done Fixed typo. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 16:23, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
- It seems we had a conflict. I also dealt with the request at the same time. IWI (chat) 16:25, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
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Hi,
Iran Recoveried data is wrong, it is not 1968,949 as of right now, it should be 198,949.
Thanks 190.53.126.214 (talk) 16:46, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
- Done Fixed the typo. Thanks for catching that. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 17:05, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
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Change the number of cases for Canada from 105,316 to 105,317 per the official report from the Government of Canada https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection.html Updated July 4th, 2020 at 19:00EDT. The current source is out of date. Florch96 (talk) 03:10, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
- Not done as the current source has higher numbers now as of the time of this comment. Cheers, u|RayDeeUx (contribs | talk page) 15:13, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
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South Africa : Death toll 3199, infection 193,750, recoveries 93315: sacoronavirus.co.za 165.73.52.100 (talk) 18:47, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
- Not done Already past that point. SMB99thx Email! 22:58, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
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Hi, the data for Senegal's death are wrong : if you go check the ref, 60 is the number of districts that have COVID cases. Number of death is just next to it, and it's currently 141. Magali Chr (talk) 19:00, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
- Done Thanks for catching that! —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 19:23, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
typo in deaths in greece
as the source says, recorded (official) deaths are 193, not 1923. there is a typo that changes the number a lot. Supergoofy2 (talk) 17:11, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
- Fixed. Cheers, u|RayDeeUx (contribs | talk page) 00:51, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
Totals
The world totals should be the aggregate of the separate entries, but they are not. The individual countries are taken from a variety of sources and the totals from John Hopkins. The table should be changed so that either all figures are from John Hopkins or the totals sum the individual figures. Dudley Miles (talk) 07:10, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
- Dudley Miles, here's a short response to your suggestion:
- That would require a huge overhaul of the template–a job that involves too much time and effort (in terms of replacing numbers) especially during this stage of the pandemic. The current structure of the table is fine as is.
- Now, an elaboration:
- If your changes were to be implemented, we would either have sum templates with over 200 parameters or we have figures from one source that are not as up to date as a location's respective local & reputable sources would be. The first option would make it harder to load the template in source editing mode (even on a 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro), and the latter would come at the risk of disseminating inaccurate numbers to folks who look up these numbers from Google, which uses this template to power their sidebar search results.
- Maybe when the pandemic cools down, this suggestion may be reconsidered. But for now, we are keeping the table as is. Cheers, u|RayDeeUx (contribs | talk page) 00:53, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
- OK. But the notes to the totals say "The total number of cases [deaths and recoveries in the respective columns] may not necessarily add up due to the frequency of values being updated for each location." This should be updated to give the correct explanation that totals are taken from a different source. Also the note to 'Worldwide' says "Total numbers worldwide. Some locations, including North Korea, have yet to report cases." It would also be helpful to clarify that some locations underreport or do not report at all, although the only one I know of which has stopped reporting is Tanzania. Dudley Miles (talk) 08:48, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
- Dudley Miles, here's what I've changed:
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- The total number of cases [deaths and recoveries in the respective columns] may not necessarily add up due to the frequency of values being updated for each location.
- has been changed to:
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- The total number of [cases, deaths, recoveries in respective columns] may not necessarily represent an aggregate sum of all entries in this column as it relies on aggregate sources and not local sources.
- As for your second concern (quoted below)...
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- It would also be helpful to clarify that some locations under report (sic) or do not report at all...
- ...it has been addressed by the existing footnote (quoted below)...
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- Reporting criteria vary between countries.
- ...which I have changed to the following (in order to account for inclusion of locations/int'l conveyances on the template):
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- Reporting criteria...vary between locations.
- Besides the one word I swapped out, the current footnotes are adequate enough to explain locations that either underreport or do not report.
- Hope that helps. Cheers, u|RayDeeUx (contribs | talk page) 13:26, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
- OK. But the notes to the totals say "The total number of cases [deaths and recoveries in the respective columns] may not necessarily add up due to the frequency of values being updated for each location." This should be updated to give the correct explanation that totals are taken from a different source. Also the note to 'Worldwide' says "Total numbers worldwide. Some locations, including North Korea, have yet to report cases." It would also be helpful to clarify that some locations underreport or do not report at all, although the only one I know of which has stopped reporting is Tanzania. Dudley Miles (talk) 08:48, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
Notes for Disputed Territories
The issue of autonomous territories and disputed territories was mostly solved back in March and April. Recently, I noticed someone change the note for Israel to "Excluding cases from the Palestinian National Authority". I suddenly noticed that there isn't a standardised format for the footnotes of countries:
- Figures do not include the ...
- Excluding all ...
- Does not include ...
It might seem trivial, but I recall a debate [1] where people decided that using the term "excluding the disputed Taiwan" was unnecessary and political. This assumes that using the term "excluding" is vastly different from "does not include". Wikipedia should not favour one political stance over another, so using varying terms which seem to be different from each other violates this.
I think we should create a standardised system for this, just like we did for territories. Thoughts?
JMonkey2006 (talk) 05:31, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
- JMonkey2006, if I recall, the issue was more that the status of Taiwan was "disputed" than the use of the word "excluding". For consistency's sake I support using one phrase to describe the explanatory footnotes. From the three observed above I would lean towards "Excluding all" or "Does not include". —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 05:52, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
- I also lean towards "Excluding (region, state, territory or province)". But you have to admit that Taiwan is a disputed territory (it's only recognised by only 15 UN member states i think). But for the purpose of these notes, I think that it should be written as "Excluding Taiwan". In that case, should we change "disputed Crimea and Sevastopol" to "Crimea" (in the interim)? JMonkey2006 (talk) 06:46, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
- I'm not opening the can of worms that is politics concerning Taiwan; I was pointing out that the point of contention was most likely not from the choice of words describing its exclusion, but rather from using the word "disputed". Basically, I don't think any phrase of inclusion or exclusion should have political intent ascribed to them. From an aesthetic point of view I suggest that the phrase that's decided on should be consistent throughout the footnotes.
- Aside from deciding what manner of phrase to use to include/exclude the regions, I am neutral on any changes being made to Crimea and Sevastopol in terms of describing them. In one of the last comments in the discussion "Excluding the disputed Taiwan", Magic9mushroom mentions that
Crimea is worth noting as disputed in descriptions of Ukraine and Russia because most of Ukraine and most of Russia are not disputed
. Perhaps some editors more versed in the subject than me can offer their opinions. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 07:16, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
- I also lean towards "Excluding (region, state, territory or province)". But you have to admit that Taiwan is a disputed territory (it's only recognised by only 15 UN member states i think). But for the purpose of these notes, I think that it should be written as "Excluding Taiwan". In that case, should we change "disputed Crimea and Sevastopol" to "Crimea" (in the interim)? JMonkey2006 (talk) 06:46, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
- JMonkey2006, why don't we do a ctrl+f/cmd+f and change every instance for footnotes regarding territories to "does not include..."? The phrase seems much less blunt but conveys the same message, while steering away from the can of worms Tenryuu mentioned.
- By the way, the modified footnote you brought up was originally as follows:
- Excluding cases from the State of Palestine.
- Hope that helps. Cheers, u|RayDeeUx (contribs | talk page) 13:18, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
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Malawi recovered cases is 369 41.190.95.67 (talk) 14:38, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
- Done Switched active case number with recovered number from the source. Thanks for the catch! —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 15:19, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
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Estonia 108.52.207.45 (talk) 08:34, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
- Not done as there are no specifications in the edit request. Please note that while some locations may not be updated as frequently as others, they will be updated eventually. Cheers, u|RayDeeUx (contribs | talk page) 13:42, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
Nicaragua cases
I am confused by this situation. Tekle Mariam insisted on 2,182 cases and 1,750 recoveries, first from SICA then el19digital (with evidence that it is from MINSA). I have quick searched Twitter (from @jpplusni) and Google and it backs up Tekle Miriam's edits. Meanwhile, we used La Prensa as the source for Nicaragua cases. I think this needs discussion. SMB99thx Email! 12:03, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
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All I want to ask is, In your Coronavirus (COVID-19) main page which shows the countrywise data and everything, even google search shows the same page... "WHY IS CHINA DATA NOT SHOWING UP???" 103.87.57.12 (talk) 18:40, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
- China is the 23rd entry on the list. I see identical results in five browsers. You may have to scroll. - MrX 🖋 18:58, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
Case numbers
Hi everyone, the figures for America, Brazil, India And Peru are from official government source, the figures are as follow :
US cases : 3,321,597, deaths : 137,012, recovered : 979,947
https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en
Brazil cases : 1,839,850, deaths : 71,649, recovered : 1,244,088
India cases : 849,553, deaths : 22,674, recovered : 534,620
Peru cases : 322,710 deaths : 11,682 recovered : 240,017
https://covid19.minsa.gob.pe/sala_situacional.asp
Please do not rollback and revert back to the edit i have made moments ago. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BlackSun2104 (talk • contribs) 07:21, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
- Try to update within the existing framework. The US figures have a terribly confusing calculation, but it is explained in the comments. Just add the new figures without commas inside the sum and make sure that the URL and access-date are correct. Don't change the totals, because that's a compromise over a long period and even though it is heavily flawed, it's the best people could come with. Most importantly, don't go edit warring on a high frequency template, because sudden banning is very likely. KittenKlub (talk) 07:39, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
- BlackSun2104, You made visual edit which stripped the codes behind it, that's the reason your edits are reverted back. Have a look a source code and then edit it. - Timbaaa -> ping me 07:46, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
- @Timbaaa: I never use visual. Too old fashioned and most pages are too complex anyhow. Do you know of a warning on the page to prevent this for the future, because there's so much under water on this template. KittenKlub (talk) 08:10, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
- KittenKlub, My previous response is for BlackSun2104, not for you. I don't know any kind of warnings, but use of {{VEFriendly}} encourages visual edit. - Timbaaa -> ping me 08:37, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
- @Timbaaa: I never use visual. Too old fashioned and most pages are too complex anyhow. Do you know of a warning on the page to prevent this for the future, because there's so much under water on this template. KittenKlub (talk) 08:10, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
- Dear BlackSun2104:
- We damn well will (and already have), especially since there are separate entries for the US territories which requires sum templates to be used for the US.
- Cheers, u|RayDeeUx (contribs | talk page) 13:33, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
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Change Montenegro numbers from
Montenegro 1,019 19 320
To
Montenegro 1,164 23 325
Source: https://www.coronainfocg.me/ Parasimpaticki (talk) 12:21, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
- Parasimpaticki, Done. Cheers, u|RayDeeUx (contribs | talk page) 13:52, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
Adding / removing / commenting out references
Let's try to document this as well. There is general system on the Template, but I don't think it has been properly documented. Today I've updated Guyana, and that's a good example. The official site is infrequently updated nowadays, so that source is commented out (not deleted, because it is still relevant), if there is news report which never figures. The first update today was for number of deaths only, so it was added as a secondary reference was added, because you needed two refs to understand the figure. An hour or so later, there was a full news report update which implied the deletion of the other reference. Any ideas about a proper consensus guideline for the refs on the template? KittenKlub (talk) 08:16, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
- KittenKlub, if there is a location that relies solely on news sources then the source with the latest figures will be used.
- Commenting out older sources is only for locations whose figures rely on aggregate sources and have switched between aggregate sources. As source switching for those locations is not as frequent anymore, such habits may have broken down a bit. Cheers, u|RayDeeUx (contribs | talk page) 13:39, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
- @RayDeeUx:Thanks for the clarification. There are still plenty of refs commented out. Nowadays the main problem is that (smaller) countries and territories are getting tired and used to the new normal and therefore stop updating (the same applies to Wikipedia).KittenKlub (talk) 14:05, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
- KittenKlub, that's the nature of Wikipedia for you. Like stub articles, these locations' figures are simply updated less often than the figures of larger countries, such as, say, the United States due to either a lack of editors familiar with the COVID–19 situation of that location or from a lack of editors paying attention to those locations.
- As I've seen from your edit count and your account age I'm not going to give you the spiel of "Wikipedia's contributors are only voluteers"—I'm sure you know that already.
- As for now, there's not much we can do. I see that veteran editors (of this template) seemed to have... disappeared. Dellux mkd and Capewearer are gone, and MarioGom stopped editing the template a bit before that.
- I too admit that I've slacked a little with maintaining the US figures myself–but such is life, as people come and go. I'll try to stick around the talk page a bit for the coming weeks, but beyond that...
- ...anyways, I digress. TLDR: Not much we can do, it's Wikipedia being Wikipedia. Cheers, u|RayDeeUx (contribs | talk page) 16:04, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
- @RayDeeUx:Thanks for the clarification. There are still plenty of refs commented out. Nowadays the main problem is that (smaller) countries and territories are getting tired and used to the new normal and therefore stop updating (the same applies to Wikipedia).KittenKlub (talk) 14:05, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
Who will update the table for July 12?
Hi all. Can somebody update the whole table for July 12 pls? It still says July 11, and the data for most entries has remained the same for almost 24 hours. Titus III (talk) 00:30, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
- Titus III, I've updated most locations up to Israel so far. It's getting late here, so I'll leave it there for now. Cheers, u|RayDeeUx (contribs | talk page) 02:45, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
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Change Serbia numbers from
Serbia 17,728 370 13,064
To:
Serbia 18,639 405 14,345
Source: https://covid19.rs/ Parasimpaticki (talk) 23:37, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
- Partly done: I've updated the total number of cases and deaths, but this is my first time editing Serbia's numbers; are we certain that all cases that are not active are recoveries? Deaths are technically inactive cases. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 00:38, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
- If I do , the difference is 13940. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 00:42, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
- To clarify, I have not touched the recovery numbers. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 21:52, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
Updating the totals
When it was known that the total figures of cases, deaths and recoveries hadn't been updated for more than a day (until it was eventually), I wonder how they're being updated, as I've tried to look as to how I can do them myself under the default source editor but couldn't. I guess it may be easier with the Visual Editor but I couldn't get that working right. If I knew how that can be done, I can update the totals on a regular basis myself, perhaps twice a day. Bryn89 (talk) 10:13, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
- Here, thanks for your help. But remember when you update the numbers, always using John Hopkins as source. Nguyen QuocTrung (talk) 10:59, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks, and yes I'm fully aware of that. Bryn89 (talk) 13:33, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
Updating Canada's numbers
I've been posting this in other talk pages, but Quebec revised their criteria for recovered cases today. The new system that they're using hasn't been specified, but with this implementation, the national number of active cases has plummeted from 27,603 to 4,058. [1] I suggest a footnote should be added to Canada's entry to reflect this change. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 21:09, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
- Tenryuu, go right ahead. Lately this template has been through so much at once that if the template were a person, I wouldn't be surprised if it couldn't tell the difference between down and up. In other words, I best not touch it in these confusing times... Cheers, u|RayDeeUx (contribs | talk page) 13:46, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
- @RayDeeUx: Done. If anyone's interested they can take a look at my last corrective diff. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 19:38, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
References
Error in Costa Rica data
Costa Rica has 54 deaths, no 545. Source --MadriCR (talk) 18:45, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
- Already done —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 19:16, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
Discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject COVID-19#Help needed creating Wikidata bot to update statistics
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject COVID-19#Help needed creating Wikidata bot to update statistics. {{u|Sdkb}} talk 17:23, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
Any way of transcluding top 10 nations with total cases?
The COVID-19 pandemic page broke its PEIS limit again recently and some editors tossed around a few ideas to reduce it again at this discussion. One of them was taking the top 10 nations (each day) from this table (that currently accounts for roughly 25% of the PEIS limit) and displaying it on that page. Is this feasible? —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 20:49, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
- Another option discussed would be to exclude all the footnotes and references. We'd then add a table footnote along the lines of "For detailed references, see COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory". - Wikmoz (talk) 21:17, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
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Please sort Netherlands 51,910 below Israel 52,003 85.150.237.228 (talk) 04:39, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
- Question: (for regular editors) The countries aren't automatically sorted by cases, are they? —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 04:45, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
- Done Danski454 (talk) 14:34, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
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Hi, I mentioned last time that the number of deaths for Senegal is wrong. It had been fixed, but now it's wrong again... If you go check the ref, "61" is the number of district which have COVID cases. Number of deaths is just next to it, and is currently "174". Thanks. Magali Chr (talk) 19:28, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
- Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. P,TO 19104 (talk) (contribs) 19:42, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
- Done. The number for deaths should be taken should be from "Total décés", not "District Touchés". Thanks for catching that Magali Chr. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 00:35, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
Show All seems to be broken.
The "show all" button does not seem to be working.Oltemative (talk) 03:34, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
- Never mind, I ran it down and fixed it myself. Someone had renamed the container at one point in the template (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:COVID-19_pandemic_data&diff=968973520&oldid=968969622). Oltemative (talk) 07:50, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
UK
Publication of death figures for the UK has been suspended on the source, and so the template is still showing the figure for 17 July. However, the government is still publishing daily figures at [2]. Dudley Miles (talk) 18:23, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
Remove right side float and small font size markup
The table as presented in COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory doesn't look great right now. It would be better if the table used a standard size font and wasn't aligned to the right of the page. Perhaps we could set a min-width:50% as well to spread out the content a bit.
Within the template, would it be safe to remove the right float and small font size markup? We could add documentation offering instruction on how editors can easily position the table and shrink the font size using: <div style="text-align:right; font-size:85%; margin:0 0 0.5em 1em;padding:0" id="covid19-container">TEMPLATE HERE</div>
- Wikmoz (talk) 05:36, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
- Took a pass at removing the forced styling. However, the scroll box remains at 100% width. Not sure how to fix this so it isn't wider than the table. - Wikmoz (talk) 21:46, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
- Wikmoz, could you provide a screenshot of the template after you changed the right float (via Imgur if possible)? As far as I know, there needs to be some padding outside of the table (but within the template itself) to prevent the scrollbar from overlapping with the references column. Judging by the specific lines you've changed in the .css file of the template, however, the issue seems to be unrelated to that.
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- If that is the case, the only response I have is that the table was stuck on the right since its creation and has remained that way since in order to prevent it from interfering with content on its parent article, COVID-19 pandemic. As the template's been removed from the parent article, though... maybe we can consider it now? Beats me... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Cheers, u|RayDeeUx (contribs | talk page) 18:55, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
- It was unrelated to the right side padding. Essentially, the table was on the left side of the screen and the scroll bar for the table was on the right side of the screen. There was no content in the frame that would push it to full width so it's a mystery. Do we know where Template:COVID-19 pandemic data is transcluded? I believe it's only transcluded into COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory but is there a way to confirm? If so, I think it's safe to roll the change forward and debug. - Wikmoz (talk) 19:05, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
Wikmoz:[Quote]:I believe it's only transcluded into COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory but is there a way to confirm?
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere&target=Template_talk%3ACOVID-19_pandemic_data, seems like there's way more than we expected. Cheers, u|RayDeeUx (contribs | talk page) 19:11, 24 July 2020 (UTC)False alarm, Wikmoz. I tried ctrl+F with "Transclusions" but turned up... nothing, somehow. Cheers, u|RayDeeUx (contribs | talk page) 19:13, 24 July 2020 (UTC)- Second false alarm and I'm sorry for pinging you too many times Wikmoz:
- This [[3]] is the true link we need. Still more than a page, but not as many this time.
- My previous link was linking to this talk page instead of the template. Sorry! Cheers, u|RayDeeUx (contribs | talk page) 19:15, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
- Used your method and limited the search to the mainspace. It's just a few topics incorrectly directing users to view the template. Maybe a little safer to debug in the sandbox since I was able to reproduce the issue there. - Wikmoz (talk) 19:17, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
- Oh wait, your new method is better. I see it's transcluded to the Portal page. It looks like it's already in a right aligned frame there so probably no issue but I can easily wrap in the above mentioned div if there's any issue after we modify the template style. - Wikmoz (talk) 19:21, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
- Wikmoz, have you tried changing the width of the template? (not the table itself) Cheers, u|RayDeeUx (contribs | talk page) 19:25, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
- I can force a fix by setting #covid19-container {width: 550px;} but that's an inelegant solution since for people who have their browsers set to force a larger font size. - Wikmoz (talk) 19:35, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
- I set max-width:600px to bring the scrollbar back into proximity of the table but if there's a CSS expert out there who can find the root cause, that would be much better. - Wikmoz (talk) 23:28, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
- I set the inner table width to 100% to fill the full widget area. This seems to solve the problem. - Wikmoz (talk) 02:07, 26 July 2020 (UTC)
- Wikmoz, the scrollbar now overlaps with the reference column... back to the drawing board we go. Sorry. (macOS, MacBook Pro Late 2019, Firefox) Cheers, u|RayDeeUx (contribs | talk page) 02:20, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
- RayDeeUx, I'm unable to reproduce in Firefox on Windows or Android. Really tough to debug without being able to reproduce. For the moment, I think reducing the forced 100% width will help. Can you look at the sandbox page and let me know if everything looks ok? If so, I'll make that the live version until we can figure out a proper fix. Also, to confirm, you have white space to the right of the scrollbox... correct? It's not a matter of the browser frame shrinking the window. - Wikmoz (talk) 04:25, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
- Wikmoz, see this: https://imgur.com/a/nAuoVFf
- Push out the .css file you have for the sandbox into the live template. Cheers, u|RayDeeUx (contribs | talk page) 01:07, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
- Nice! Ok, pushed to to live. Set the width to 97% instead of the 96% in the sandbox because it looks like it will fit but let me know if it's no good. Hopefully, someone can add a better solution. - Wikmoz (talk) 03:58, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
- Wikmoz, sounds like business is done! Cheers, u|RayDeeUx (contribs | talk page) 01:49, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
- Nice! Ok, pushed to to live. Set the width to 97% instead of the 96% in the sandbox because it looks like it will fit but let me know if it's no good. Hopefully, someone can add a better solution. - Wikmoz (talk) 03:58, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
- RayDeeUx, I'm unable to reproduce in Firefox on Windows or Android. Really tough to debug without being able to reproduce. For the moment, I think reducing the forced 100% width will help. Can you look at the sandbox page and let me know if everything looks ok? If so, I'll make that the live version until we can figure out a proper fix. Also, to confirm, you have white space to the right of the scrollbox... correct? It's not a matter of the browser frame shrinking the window. - Wikmoz (talk) 04:25, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
- Wikmoz, the scrollbar now overlaps with the reference column... back to the drawing board we go. Sorry. (macOS, MacBook Pro Late 2019, Firefox) Cheers, u|RayDeeUx (contribs | talk page) 02:20, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
- I set the inner table width to 100% to fill the full widget area. This seems to solve the problem. - Wikmoz (talk) 02:07, 26 July 2020 (UTC)
- Used your method and limited the search to the mainspace. It's just a few topics incorrectly directing users to view the template. Maybe a little safer to debug in the sandbox since I was able to reproduce the issue there. - Wikmoz (talk) 19:17, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
- It was unrelated to the right side padding. Essentially, the table was on the left side of the screen and the scroll bar for the table was on the right side of the screen. There was no content in the frame that would push it to full width so it's a mystery. Do we know where Template:COVID-19 pandemic data is transcluded? I believe it's only transcluded into COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory but is there a way to confirm? If so, I think it's safe to roll the change forward and debug. - Wikmoz (talk) 19:05, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
- If that is the case, the only response I have is that the table was stuck on the right since its creation and has remained that way since in order to prevent it from interfering with content on its parent article, COVID-19 pandemic. As the template's been removed from the parent article, though... maybe we can consider it now? Beats me... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Cheers, u|RayDeeUx (contribs | talk page) 18:55, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
- Wikmoz and RayDeeUx, ugh, this is an example of yet another spiraling consequence of Wikidata's massive collective failure to get a system for importing the open data from JHU operational. As a result, our per capita table (which uses Wikidata values) is too unreliable to be usable at COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory, and so it's been commented out since June. The way it's supposed to be is for the per capita table to appear at left and the total values table to appear at right. {{u|Sdkb}} talk 06:13, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
FYI: Template removed from COVID-19 pandemic due to technical limitations
Just FYI for you all, this template unfortunately had to be removed from COVID-19 pandemic#Epidemiology due to the page exceeding PEIS limits. See the discussion at Talk:COVID-19 pandemic#COVID-19 pandemic page size issue and some other past threads on that talk page. {{u|Sdkb}} talk 06:12, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
- While the template is no longer visible there, links have been provided to this template and the sidebar in its place will have its total cases, deaths, and recoveries update with this graph.
- Hopefully this also means that edit requests for this template will stay on here. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 07:03, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
Sdkb: Well, that's fine, as long as there's a wikilink from the main COVID-19 article leading to this one in order to prevent confusion.Cheers, u|RayDeeUx (contribs | talk page) 18:55, 24 July 2020 (UTC)- I can see that it's already been wl'd. All good. Cheers, u|RayDeeUx (contribs | talk page) 18:59, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 31 July 2020
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Hi Please add a separate column for "Number of Active cases" for the sake of ease of understanding. Thank you. Amarsahoo20 (talk) 03:47, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
- Not done: please see current consensus #3 above, with link to discussion. Thank you. Capewearer (talk) 06:24, 31 July 2020 (UTC)