Hi James and Mario,

I'll follow-up with our Product team directly on this feedback to update the cited source, but a good chunk of our Product team is based out of Israel and likely out of office for Passover holiday the rest of this week, so we may not have a response for a few days. I've also asked Maryana to include it as feedback in this week's edition of the digest.

Thanks for surfacing!

Nik

On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 9:12 AM James Heilman <jmh649@gmail.com> wrote:

Maybe we should ask Google to cite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic_data

Instead :-) I think we have the Googlers on this mailing list...

J

On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 9:26 AM Mario Gómez <mariogomwiki@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 3:57 PM James Heilman <jmh649@gmail.com> wrote:
Not sure what you mean?

Google cites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic_by_country_and_territory as the source for the counts table. It seems some users are finding that page from Google results and posting requests on its talk page. But most people updating the table are watching the template page instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic_data

If Google cites the template directly, we might increase the chance of new users posting their requests in a place where they will be attended faster.

Best,

Mario Gómez

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