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WikiProject COVID-19 is aWikiProject dedicated to Wikipedia's coverage of theSARS-CoV-2 virus,COVID-19, and theCOVID-19 pandemic.Please join us!
The project is an offshoot ofWikiProject Disaster management,WikiProject Medicine (including thePulmonology andSociety and medicine task forces), andWikiProject Viruses. Sibling projects includeWikiProject AIDS.
As of24 November 2025, there are2,505 articles within the scope of WikiProject COVID-19. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, project pages, etcetera, there are5,010 pages in the project.
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{{COVID-19 pandemic}} contains English Wikipedia's main portfolio of articles related to COVID-19 as seen below. For the sidebar used on many articles see{{COVID-19 pandemic sidebar}}
Content assessments are used within the project itself as a quality and importance scale that aid in identifying vital content, whilerecognizing excellent contributions and pages in need of further work andcleanup.
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| FM | 5 | 5 | |||||
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| B | 7 | 29 | 47 | 111 | 1 | 195 | |
| C | 6 | 66 | 209 | 512 | 8 | 801 | |
| Start | 1 | 48 | 158 | 834 | 8 | 1,049 | |
| Stub | 6 | 34 | 258 | 2 | 300 | ||
| List | 2 | 20 | 38 | 79 | 1 | 140 | |
| Category | 990 | 990 | |||||
| Disambig | 25 | 25 | |||||
| File | 151 | 151 | |||||
| Portal | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Project | 45 | 45 | |||||
| Redirect | 3 | 19 | 43 | 389 | 454 | ||
| Template | 535 | 535 | |||||
| NA | 4 | 4 | |||||
| Other | 22 | 22 | |||||
| Assessed | 18 | 172 | 508 | 1,852 | 2,168 | 20 | 4,738 |
| Total | 18 | 172 | 508 | 1,852 | 2,168 | 20 | 4,738 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω =10,876 | Ω = 4.60 | |||||
An automated listing of the project's recognized content. This includes FA and GA content and nominations alongside articles, images, "In the news", and "Did you know .." content featured on ourmain page.
As of24 November 2025, there are2 featured and18 good content items within WikiProject COVID-19 scope. This makes up 0.02% of all featured content and 0.04% of all good articles.
Scanning electron microscope image of SARS-CoV-2 emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab
Transmission electron microscope image of SARS-CoV-2 isolated from a patient in the U.S.Generally accepted standards that editors should attempt to follow.
Current events contains a listing on an automated basis of importance news reports and related articles.
Help withassessment process and identify new articles which do not meetthe criteria for inclusion and/or to"tag" them for any glaring issues that need attention. Most critical arecopyright violations anddefamatory material aboutliving persons, followed closely by pages that aredeliberately misleading; while identifying editors who seek to exploit our readers forfinancial gain.
{{COVID-19 pandemic}}.Article Alerts is an automated listing of Deletion talks, Requests for Comments, Featured article candidates, Did you know nominations, etc...related to COVID-19 content thatrequires your input! See also;Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/COVID-19.
The clean-up listing contains articles needing attention - including problems with page layout, spelling, grammar, technical errors, POV, neutrality and sourcing concerns (assuming thecleanup templates were placed correctly).
| 36 edits | Amy Gleason |
| 10 edits | Lumpinee Boxing Stadium |
| 8 edits | Climate lockdown |
| 7 edits | World Health Organization |
| 6 edits | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| 6 edits | List of deaths due to COVID-19 |
| 6 edits | COVID-19 pandemic in Northern Ireland |
| 5 edits | Robert F. Kennedy Jr. |
| 4 edits | List of COVID-19 deaths in North America |
| 3 edits | Risk communication |
These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last three days. Last updated 27 August 2025 byHotArticlesBot.
Task forces allow for the organization and devoted talk pages for various specialized areas of interest.
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| Case Count | We help maintain COVID-19 stats related to confirmed cases, deaths and recovery counts. See also COVID-19 deaths. | talk |
| Equipment | We gather reliable information and inventory orshortages of COVID-19 medical equipment, per countries or territories. See alsoRaise the line. | talk |
| Translations | We bring reliable information related to COVID-19 to as many languages as possible | talk |
| Women in Red | We turnred links intoblue ones in regards to women's biographies, women's works, and other women's issues related to COVID-19. | talk |
| Wikimedia Joint Support | Wikimedia UK andWikimedia Medicine joint initiative to help tackle the issues around information reliability on articles. | talk |
| Wikidata | We help on the wikidata side. See alsowikidata India | talk |
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Pages relating to the coronavirus are currently subject toactive discretionary sanctions. In general, editors who repeatedly or seriously fail to edit in accordance with thepurpose of Wikipedia, theexpected standards of behaviour, or anynormal editorial process may be sanctioned by any uninvolved administrator.
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These templates can be used on talk pages to alert editors that consensus has been formed on certain points of interest related to all (or a subset of) COVID-19 articles. The major benefit of such templates is the avoidance of repeated discussions on contentious topics, especially from new or infrequent editors.
{{Current COVID-19 Project Consensus}} (expanded by default, but collapsible with the parameter:|collapsed=yes)
 | WikiProject COVID-19 consensus WikiProject COVID-19 aims to add to and buildconsensus for pages relating to COVID-19. They have so far discussed items listed below. Please discuss proposed improvements to them at theproject talk page.
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{{Origins of COVID-19 (current consensus)}}
no consensus as to whether the COVID-19 lab leak hypothesis is a "conspiracy theory" or if it is a "minority, but scientific viewpoint". There is no rough consensus to create a separate section/subsection from the other theories related to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
How a disease spreads, what changes its likelihood to spread and mutation information are, I believe, biomedical (or chemical) information. But who created something or where it was created is historical information.[...]
Sources for information of any kind should be reliable, and due weight should be given in all cases. A minority viewpoint or theory should not be presented as an absolute truth, swamp scientific consensus or drown out leading scientific theories.
Should the article include the sentenceThey have dismissed the theory based in part on Shi's emailed answers. See this revision for an example.[1][...]
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow... - it is obvious that there is clear consensus against including this.
There is a consensus against mentioning that the FBI and the U.S. Department of Energy announced in 2023 that they favor the lab leak theory in the lead of this article.
no consensus to retain "the lab leak theory and its weaponization by politicians have both leveraged and increased anti-Chinese racism" in the lead. Neither, however, is there a consensus to remove it from the lead.(RFC, December 2024).
{{COVID-19 treatments (current consensus)}}
A note onWP:MEDRS: Per thisWikipedia policy, we must rely on the highest quality secondary sources and the recommendations of professional organizations and government bodies when determining the scientific consensus about medical treatments.
Evidence of efficacy for ivermectin is inconclusive. It should not be used outside of clinical trials.(May 2021,June 2021,June 2021,July 2021,July 2021) (WHO,FDA,IDSA,ASHP,CDC,NIH)
Neither hydroxychloroquine nor chloroquine should be used, either alone or in combination with azithromycin, in inpatient or outpatient settings.(July 2020,Aug 2020,Sep 2020,May 2021) (WHO,FDA,IDSA,ASHP,NIH)
Anyone may join,includingYOU!
Thesymposium on Wikipedia and COVID-19 hosted byWikimedia New York City on May 9 answered questions the public and press may have about Wikipedia's coverage of the pandemic. Featured speakers includedUser:Netha Hussain,User:Another Believer,User:TMorata, andUser:Bluerasberry.
Originally published with the headline 'Inside Wikipedia's endless war over the coronavirus lab leak theory'
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