==What is this list?==

This readout highlights the partnership between Google and Wikipedia on surfacing COVID-19 data. This digest aims to shed light on user trends and data sources so that both Google and Wikipedia can more effectively surface relevant COVID-19 information to users across the globe. 

The information shared in this digest will be:

  • Updated on a weekly cadence

  • Populated/updated by relevant stakeholders by 6pm US PST every Thursday and sent out Friday morning US PST.

Shared transparently with Google, Wikimedia Foundation, and Wikipedia’s language communities.

==Google roadmap==

A few updates/callouts to Google's roadmap table here

1. For US totals, the Google team has found county-level data onwiki and is displaying it for most US states, with the exception of Nevada and Kentucky. If anyone can find a reliable source for county-level data for these states and create tables for them onwiki, it would be much appreciated!

2. Missing data: missing data noted in other rows of the roadmap table linked above are still applicable this week:
- top priority: global distribution of cases by age, gender, and severity
- recoveries data
- daily data by country
- tests over time

==Google Feedback==

1. Top Priority: Finding global COVID data by age, gender, and severity is Google’s top data priority this week. Does Wikipedia have this data that includes global totals?

2. [Fixed] Incorrect data: Some of the map/stats flags were temporarily wrong. Especially all the French territories (e.g. Guadeloupe) should show the French flag. Affected territories include:
-The Islands of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint-Martin, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint Pierre and Miquelon (Atlantic Ocean). 
-Reunion island, Mayotte, the French Southern and Antarctic Lands (Indian Ocean)
French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna (Pacific Ocean)

==Community Feedback==

1. Request to update Google stats card global data attribution link. The Wikipedia attribution line of the stats card for global data currently links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic, but the data is actually housed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic_data. The latter page is the one watched by the Wikipedians who monitor/update the stats. The community has noticed an uptick of stats-related questions and requests on the discussion page of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic, probably as a result of Google’s attribution link – they’d like Google to update the global data attribution link to point to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic_data, so they can respond to questions/suggestions on the associated discussion page.
2. Request for comment on proposals for changing French overseas regions reporting. The COVID task force continues to discuss what to do about these and other special territories that tend not to have reliable sources for reporting case statistics. There is a proposal to either a) merge some of the French overseas territories back with France and report a mix of aggregate statistics for mainland + overseas France and separate stats on overseas territories that do have a reliable source (following the convention of  ECDC, The New York Times, Bloomberg and the Berliner Morgenpost), or b) keep the table as-is and note that there will be a 24-hour delay in reporting stats for these areas (because the only reliable source is the daily WHO situation report). The full details of the proposals are here. Google team, please let Mario (who started this discussion and offered these two proposals) know if you have any thoughts on these potential changes!

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Maryana Pinchuk (she/her)
Senior Partnerships Manager
Wikimedia Foundation