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Wikipedia user Sdkb points out that there needs to be a tool to update the stats automatically for accurate information and suggests a bot developed by John Hopkins as the solution

We're wasting a lot of editor effort trying to update the case/death/recovery counts for every country in the world, in terms of updating Template:COVID-19 pandemic data and its subpages, redirecting editors who post about outdated stats in the wrong forums, forcing map creators to copy data, and not being able to benefit from non-English contributors updating data. There's a solution to this — Johns Hopkins publishes open data in a machine-readable format that could be imported to Wikidata, and we could in turn import the Wikidata values ourselves (as could every other Wikipedia, so that they won't need to keep copying our table). However, the bot proposal at Wikidata has been open for three months as of today, and until it's completed our per capita data table is too unreliable for mainspace use. Does anyone want to help the folks at Wikidata get this up and running? -- Sdkb

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Updated 2020-08-27

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