User:Econterms/Milestones

Here are some of the things I've done.

New or totally rewritten pages on . ..

 * aeronautical pioneers and institutions:  C.H. Gibbs-Smith; L'Aérophile; Henry de La Vaulx; Georges Besançon;  Albert Zahm; Abel Hureau de Villeneuve; Wilfrid de Fonvielle;
 * journals: Social Science History; Historical Social Research; Explorations in Economic History; Cliometrica; Enterprise and Society; Journal of Economic History; Revue économique; Australian Economic History Review; The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science ; Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts
 * economics, statistics, or social science terminology: Paradata; Sectoral output; CIPSEA; Markov perfect equilibrium; (plus many that were copied from econterms, like the nice Trend stationary)
 * news items (Tunisia's "jasmine revolution"): Mustapha Ben Jafar; Habiba Zehi Ben Romdhane; Tunisian Human Rights League
 * contributed a lot to: Royal Meeker, Törnqvist index,
 * Images I posted: Georges_Besançon.jpg L'Aérophile_cover_1898.jpg Abel_Hureau_de_Villeneuve.png C_Frédéric_Kuhlmann.png Journal NPCA title page 1800.png
 * Images available only under fair use: SSH; JEH; EHR; E&S; EEH; EREH; Cliom; Revue écon; CJPS; RAND;


 * to do: Robbins & Lawrence (early maker of interchangeable parts; draw from American Precision Museum)
 * new articles roughly in time order:


 * 1. Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith (aeronautical historian)‎
 * 2. Paradata‎ (survey administration concept)
 * 3. Sectoral output (economic measurement concept)
 * 4. Social Science History (journal)
 * 5. Historical Social Research (journal)
 * 6. Revue économique‎ (economics journal)
 * 7. L'Aérophile (central journal of aviation starting 1893; beautiful to read online)
 * 8. Explorations in Economic History (cliometric journal)
 * 9. Georges Besançon‎ (ballonist and founder of L'Aérophile)
 * 10. Henri de la Vaulx (19th century balloonist and organizational founder
 * 11. The Journal of Economic History (a central journal in that subfield)
 * 12. Albert Francis Zahm‎ (early aeronautical experimenter, inventor, and professor of physics) (more to do there)
 * 13. Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act (authorized data-sharing among agencies, and confidentiality the public can expect)
 * 14. Mustapha Ben Jafar (longtime secular/humane Tunisian politician)
 * 15. Australian Economic History Review
 * 16. Habiba Zehi Ben Romdhane‎ (new public-health minister in Tunisia)
 * 17. Bell Journal of Economics (readling name of RAND journal) (wait, now it's just a redirect)
 * 18. The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science
 * 19. Markov perfect equilibrium (model of industry oligopolies, difficult to document clearly)
 * 20. Wilfrid de Fonvielle (balloonist, journalist)
 * 21. Leo Törnqvist ‎ (This fellow taught Linus Torvalds to program! and his statistical work is actively in use! Thank you, Finnish Wikipedia, and Linus Torvald's book)
 * 22. Henry Carrington Bolton‎ (bibliographer of 19th century science)
 * 23. Thomas Gaetano LoMedico‎ (American sculptor)


 * 24. Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 (authorized creation of Economic Development Administration)
 * 25. Melvin B. Zisfein (aerodynamicist, aircraft designer, and deputy director of US National Air and Space Museum)
 * 26. Edward Purkis Frost‎ (aircraft inventor)
 * 27. Erica Groshen (new BLS commissioner) (2013-01-03)
 * 28. James Clarke Welling ‎ (former president of GWU) (2013-04-20)
 * 29. Tunisian Human Rights League (longtime organization which doubled as home for political opposition) (2013-08-07)
 * 30. Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts (historic scientific journal ; a wonderful subject; can't believe this article remained unwritten till 2013) (2013-08-22)
 * 31. Ureagenesis (just a redirect for now) (2013-09-16)
 * 32. Competition in Contracting Act (2013-09-26)
 * 33. Federal Acquisition Reform Act (2013-09-27)
 * 34. William C. Lowe (ran IBM lab that developed the IBM PC) (2013-11-03)
 * 35. Patuxent Iron Works (early ironworks in Laurel, Maryland (2013-11-16)
 * 36. Isador Lubin -- public official of the FDR era, commissioner of BLS and instrumental in Marshall Plan
 * 37. Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank -- Supreme Court case about software patents
 * 38. Tanakadate Aikitsu -- aeronauticist and physicist in many realms
 * 39. Alexei Pushkov -- Russian politician and foreign affairs professor relevant to Snowden, Syria, and Ukraine
 * 40. Jallouli Fares -- Tunisian parlimentary president/speaker from 1956-1964 (2014-05-25)
 * 41. Margaret E. Martin, economist/statistician at Bureau of the Budget and influential on U.S. economic statistics (2014-05-25)
 * to do: Prevention and Public Health Fund -- component of Affordable Care Act
 * to do: Morris H. Hansen article could refer to Hansen Lecture and include his picture and Census-history details from
 * to do: International Statistical Congress based on
 * to do: Washington Statistical Society based on historical info on the WSS
 * to do: Analysis of variance table -- an article could explain how to interpret one. Analysis of variance and Mixed-design analysis of variance refer to such tables, without a full clear explanation.

Progress in time

 * 2016 Oct 11: 3000th edit, across 20 WMF projects ; watchlists on en.wp exceeds 1000
 * 2016 Oct 9: presented on public policy panel at WikiCon NA 2016 ,
 * 2016 Mar 12: 1000th en.wp article-space edit
 * 2014 May 25: 40th new article
 * 2014 May 5: (or thereabouts) Watchlist hit 500 pages on en.wikipedia
 * 2013 Aug 26: total editcount across projects reached 1000 according to
 * 2013 Aug 22: 30th new article -- on the wonderful Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts
 * 2013 Aug 5-11: WikiSym and Wikimania in Hong Kong
 * 2013 Feb 26: first edit in Swedish!     =:)
 * 2013 Feb 14: ran for board-of-directors of Wiki-DC chapter, and elected
 * 2012 Dec 09: My first edits on English WikiSource
 * 2012 Jul 13: Gave talk at Wikimania 2012: Wikis across government agencies (submission) (pdf)
 * 2011 Sep 12: Got space junk idea into discussion on wikinews
 * 2011 Aug 12: Special new article for Leo Törnqvist, the man who got Linus Torvalds programming computers. I'm not kidding. Historical research!
 * 2011 Aug 4-7: Wikimania 2011 in Haifa.
 * 2011 Aug 04: First proposal regarding journal abbreviations, against opposition.
 * 2011 Jul ~20: First delete request on Wikimedia Commons.
 * 2011 Jul 12: First edit in Polish
 * 2011 Mar 19: First edit in Spanish ; 400 edits in English Wikipedia
 * 2011 Feb 25: 20th new article; list of them
 * 2010 Dec 21: First of my edits deleted -- a redirect for CIPSEA. Needed to create the substantive article first before creating the redirect. Made it to 273 edits cleanly, though.
 * 2010 Dec 12: 15th article created (latest at top)
 * 2010 Dec 07: first  upload to Wikimedia Commons
 * 2010 Nov 22: first edits in French and Italian (since that date of death was wrong on many wikipediae)
 * 2010 Oct 23: Mediawiki Hack-A-Ton at Tyson's
 * 2010 Oct 22: (circa) reached 200 edits overall
 * 2010 Oct 18 (circa) reached 100 article space + file space edits
 * 2010 Oct 16: posted first picture: File:Georges_Besançon.jpg
 * 2010 Oct 12: for the first time took a position in an Articles for deletion case, regarding "slowflation"
 * 2010 Sep 04: started tiny Deutsch user page
 * 2010 Sep 04: first serious edit auf Deutsch (de:Historical_Social_Research)
 * 2010 July: Wikimania and WikiSym in Gdansk
 * 2010 July 13: first tiny edit auf Deutsch
 * 2009 Sep 09: first article created: Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith
 * 2009 Sept: aviation project contest!  It takes some learning to participate effectively.  (my submissions)
 * 2009 Aug: Wikimania in Buenos Aires
 * 2008 Jul/Aug: WikiSym in Oporto, Portugal
 * 2007 Jan: My first edit to Wikipedia, after many years of unproductive caution
 * 1997-2006: Built 1300 pages on econterms.com (1997-2006) and its associated wiki since then, which is now a possible "feeder site" to the wikipedias.
 * 1994-7: realized gradually that (a) economics badly needed a clear glossary for new grad students, and that I could slowly write it as I accumulated competence; and (b) that this kind of thing was what the Web was FOR; (c) and I worked out how to do it by collecting, asking, trying, over a period of years.
 * 1985-1994: got a real feel for databases as a quality-assurance-analyst (bugfinder), tech-support-specialist, then for many years developer, working on the wonderful Q&A (software) at Symantec.

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