==What is this list?==

This readout highlights the partnership between Google https://www.blog.google/products/search/connecting-people-covid-19-information-and-resources/ and Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_COVID-19 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:

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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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_COVID-19/Case_Count_Task_Force#Google_want_you_? :

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_.... 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_... 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic_data#RfC:_Criteria_for_territory_listing. *Google team*, please let Mario (who started this discussion and offered these two proposals) know if you have any thoughts on these potential changes!