ChristianKle

I read the paper and I'm still a bit unsure about how the process works. How specific is it to COVID-19?

Given that a Sanger sequences does sequence all kinds of mRNA, would you also find other RNA-based viruses like the flu? How much modification would be necessary to diagnose all kinds of RNA viruses?

Wikipedia had more membership growth in the time where there was no money for yearly conferences and community outreach.

Wikidata mainly works because it's programmers do a decent job and people like to participate. It doesn't work because WMF invests in community outreach and yearly conferences. It's get's a lot of money from the German chapter, so it shows some usefulness of the chapter but it's not a result of the community building spending of that chapter.

Most of Wikipedia's money goes to pay for things besides hosting. Centralized hosting also happens to be more efficient than a decentralized version.