Hi all,
A number of people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk#inaccurate_covid_19_cases_reported_for_our_county have noticed over the past ~day that the data for cases reported in Wisconsin by county is showing up incorrectly in the Google stats card. I've verified that this is still an issue. It looks like it might be due to the stats card pulling in data from the wrong row of the table https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Wisconsin#Statistics_by_county (negative or per-capita tests rather than confirmed positive), but I'm not 100% sure. Quickly scanning the history of the page, looks like there were some recent formatting tweaks – possible that they caused an issue in scraping/parsing?
*Google team: *let me know if there's any more information I can provide to assist with triage!
*COVID case count task force folks:* looks like the person who added the by-county table to that page was looking for help with table formatting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Wisconsin (maybe related to why this issue occurred?), just FYI in case you want to help them out :)
Best, Maryana
Thank you Maryana!* @Nofar & Adi*: Can you investigate?
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 1:23 PM Maryana Pinchuk mpinchuk@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi all,
A number of people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk#inaccurate_covid_19_cases_reported_for_our_county have noticed over the past ~day that the data for cases reported in Wisconsin by county is showing up incorrectly in the Google stats card. I've verified that this is still an issue. It looks like it might be due to the stats card pulling in data from the wrong row of the table https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Wisconsin#Statistics_by_county (negative or per-capita tests rather than confirmed positive), but I'm not 100% sure. Quickly scanning the history of the page, looks like there were some recent formatting tweaks – possible that they caused an issue in scraping/parsing?
*Google team: *let me know if there's any more information I can provide to assist with triage!
*COVID case count task force folks:* looks like the person who added the by-county table to that page was looking for help with table formatting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Wisconsin (maybe related to why this issue occurred?), just FYI in case you want to help them out :)
Best, Maryana
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Thanks for the update!
Indeed, it often happens that twicks in table formatting breaks our ability to read from it. There is indeed a problem with our parser now. I have a alerted the team and this will be fixed shortly.
Thanks again for letting us know, Adi
Adi Mano | PublicAlerts | amano@google.com | 972-54-2451089
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 1:33 AM Banks Baker banksb@google.com wrote:
Thank you Maryana!* @Nofar & Adi*: Can you investigate?
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 1:23 PM Maryana Pinchuk mpinchuk@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi all,
A number of people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk#inaccurate_covid_19_cases_reported_for_our_county have noticed over the past ~day that the data for cases reported in Wisconsin by county is showing up incorrectly in the Google stats card. I've verified that this is still an issue. It looks like it might be due to the stats card pulling in data from the wrong row of the table https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Wisconsin#Statistics_by_county (negative or per-capita tests rather than confirmed positive), but I'm not 100% sure. Quickly scanning the history of the page, looks like there were some recent formatting tweaks – possible that they caused an issue in scraping/parsing?
*Google team: *let me know if there's any more information I can provide to assist with triage!
*COVID case count task force folks:* looks like the person who added the by-county table to that page was looking for help with table formatting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Wisconsin (maybe related to why this issue occurred?), just FYI in case you want to help them out :)
Best, Maryana
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Thanks for the quick response, Adi! Could you please send a quick note to this thread when this is fixed?
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 9:46 AM Adi Mano via Covid-19-stats < covid-19-stats@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
Thanks for the update!
Indeed, it often happens that twicks in table formatting breaks our ability to read from it. There is indeed a problem with our parser now. I have a alerted the team and this will be fixed shortly.
Thanks again for letting us know, Adi
Adi Mano | PublicAlerts | amano@google.com | 972-54-2451089
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 1:33 AM Banks Baker banksb@google.com wrote:
Thank you Maryana!* @Nofar & Adi*: Can you investigate?
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 1:23 PM Maryana Pinchuk mpinchuk@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi all,
A number of people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk#inaccurate_covid_19_cases_reported_for_our_county have noticed over the past ~day that the data for cases reported in Wisconsin by county is showing up incorrectly in the Google stats card. I've verified that this is still an issue. It looks like it might be due to the stats card pulling in data from the wrong row of the table https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Wisconsin#Statistics_by_county (negative or per-capita tests rather than confirmed positive), but I'm not 100% sure. Quickly scanning the history of the page, looks like there were some recent formatting tweaks – possible that they caused an issue in scraping/parsing?
*Google team: *let me know if there's any more information I can provide to assist with triage!
*COVID case count task force folks:* looks like the person who added the by-county table to that page was looking for help with table formatting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Wisconsin (maybe related to why this issue occurred?), just FYI in case you want to help them out :)
Best, Maryana
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- • **Banks Baker*
- • *Head of Global Product Partnerships - Search Content
- • * 1098 Alta Avenue, Mountain View, CA 94043 • banksb@google.com
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It is now fixed. Thanks for your help!
Adi Mano | PublicAlerts | amano@google.com | 972-54-2451089
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 11:40 PM Maryana Pinchuk mpinchuk@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thanks for the quick response, Adi! Could you please send a quick note to this thread when this is fixed?
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 9:46 AM Adi Mano via Covid-19-stats < covid-19-stats@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
Thanks for the update!
Indeed, it often happens that twicks in table formatting breaks our ability to read from it. There is indeed a problem with our parser now. I have a alerted the team and this will be fixed shortly.
Thanks again for letting us know, Adi
Adi Mano | PublicAlerts | amano@google.com | 972-54-2451089 <054-245-1089>
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 1:33 AM Banks Baker banksb@google.com wrote:
Thank you Maryana!* @Nofar & Adi*: Can you investigate?
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 1:23 PM Maryana Pinchuk mpinchuk@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi all,
A number of people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk#inaccurate_covid_19_cases_reported_for_our_county have noticed over the past ~day that the data for cases reported in Wisconsin by county is showing up incorrectly in the Google stats card. I've verified that this is still an issue. It looks like it might be due to the stats card pulling in data from the wrong row of the table https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Wisconsin#Statistics_by_county (negative or per-capita tests rather than confirmed positive), but I'm not 100% sure. Quickly scanning the history of the page, looks like there were some recent formatting tweaks – possible that they caused an issue in scraping/parsing?
*Google team: *let me know if there's any more information I can provide to assist with triage!
*COVID case count task force folks:* looks like the person who added the by-county table to that page was looking for help with table formatting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Wisconsin (maybe related to why this issue occurred?), just FYI in case you want to help them out :)
Best, Maryana
--
*Maryana Pinchuk* (she/her) Senior Partnerships Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/
Covid-19-stats mailing list Covid-19-stats@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/covid-19-stats
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- • **Banks Baker*
- • *Head of Global Product Partnerships - Search Content
- • * 1098 Alta Avenue, Mountain View, CA 94043 • banksb@google.com
CONFIDENTIAL: This email is confidential. If you are not the right addressee please do not forward it, please inform the sender, and please erase this e-mail including any attachments. The above comments and terms reflect a potential business arrangement, are provided solely as a basis for further discussion, and are not intended to be and do not constitute a legally binding obligation. No legally binding obligations will be created, implied, or inferred until an agreement in final form is executed in writing by all parties involved.
Covid-19-stats mailing list Covid-19-stats@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/covid-19-stats
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