User:Erictleung

Erictleung is based in New York City, professionally working as a data scientist. I edit Wikipedia in my free time to improve our collective knowledge of the world, and to better my understanding of it, too. Plus, it gives me an avenue to practice writing.

It also feels great to chip in to a project that only Special:Statistics other active editors (and around 69k other extended confirmed users) around the world contribute to.

As a data person, I was curious to know my Wikipedia editing statistics https://xtools.wmcloud.org/ec/en.wikipedia.org/Erictleung

All the thanks I've gotten https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?page=Erictleung&title=Special:Log&type=thanks

Current Wikipedia Focus

 * Draft on the subject of my previous academic work User:Erictleung/Bladder microbiome
 * Improving the Marketing mix modeling and Marketing mix pages with improved citations, improved wording flow, and clarity
 * More generally to help improve articles under WikiProject Marketing & Advertising
 * Frequency (marketing)
 * Gross rating point
 * Target rating point
 * Reach (advertising)
 * Removing deprecated  information from musician infoboxes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pages_using_infobox_musical_artist_with_associated_acts (as of 2024-01-29, there are 39,761 pages that need fixing)
 * Improving Nunchi article
 * Adding references for years of Rose Parade marching bands

Backlog Wishlist
List of things that would be nice to work on later.


 * An Infobox template for a streetcorner

Motivations
I started my account on 2016-07-14, but only in 2024 have I gained a more active interest in editing and contributing to Wikipedia.

I now believe that my value and excitement around Wikipedia is around the people who keep it running and generally engage with it. My sentiments around Wikipedia are summed up in this quote by current Director of Machine Learning at Wikimedia, Chris Albon: ..., the thing that stands out so clearly in my mind is that Wikipedia is built by people and for the people, and it is here to stay.

The ubiquity of Wikipedia can make it easy to forget that behind every fact, every image, and every word in every article is a person — a person with a life, with family, friends, and pressures on their time.

People are why Wikipedia continues to persist. It also an avenue to share knowledge, improve a fascinating project, and learn about the world. It also gives me a chance to "Leave things a little better than [I] found them" for a resource I respect. These are some motivations that are also shared with editors, too.

Interests
I am generally knowledgeable of the following:


 * statistics and probability,
 * bioinformatics and computational biology,
 * programming and software engineering,
 * movies and TV shows,
 * Go (game),
 * open-source software and data,
 * marketing analytics, and
 * the human microbiome.

I am also interested in expanding my knowledge around the following:


 * US and world history,
 * (adult) education,
 * linguistics,
 * economics and econometrics,
 * philosophy and epistemology, and
 * art history

So my edits will surround some combination or extension of the topics above. But won't be limited to these, either.

Pages created
Statistics: https://xtools.wmcloud.org/pages/en.wikipedia.org/Erictleung/0/noredirects/live
 * Frequency (marketing)
 * Datasaurus dozen
 * Portland Women in Technology
 * Christopher Marley
 * Guillermo Vasquez Corner
 * List of important publications in data science
 * Brandon "Jinx" Jenkins
 * Posit PBC

Pages extensively worked on
Statistics: https://xtools.wmcloud.org/topedits/en.wikipedia.org/Erictleung
 * freeCodeCamp
 * Opentrons
 * 3D-Jury
 * Marketing mix modeling
 * Statistical thinking
 * Zen of Python
 * Jenks High School
 * Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
 * R (programming language)
 * Black Twitter: A People's History

Cabinet of curiosities
An ongoing list of pages I like coming back to or find interesting for different reasons.

Aggregate pages


 * List of lists of lists
 * List of idioms of improbability
 * List of common misconceptions
 * List of eponymous laws
 * List of cognitive biases
 * List of animals awarded human credentials
 * List of ongoing armed conflicts
 * Top 25 Report
 * List of citogenesis incidents
 * User:DataflowBot/output/Top 20 enwiki articles by edits and editors in past 7 days (id-1)
 * Special:NewPagesFeed
 * Fringe theories/Noticeboard

Single pages
 * Kindred Spirits (sculpture) "commemorates the 1847 donation by the Native American Choctaw People to Irish famine relief during the Great Hunger, despite the Choctaw themselves living in hardship and poverty and having recently endured the Trail of Tears."
 * Missing Wikipedians lists formerly and reasonably active Wikipedia editors that have just left the site without explanation.
 * The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of a Case of "Writer's Block"
 * Recursive islands and lakes
 * Size in volumes
 * WikiFauna
 * List of citogenesis incidents

Wikipedia Signpost articles

 * "Wikipedia in the age of personality-driven knowledge" by Maryana Pinchuk

Helpful links
Links and resources for things I find helpful in editing or generally understanding Wikipedia:

Finding tasks

 * Task Center
 * Category:Wikipedia backlog
 * Maintenance
 * Category:Wikipedia maintenance
 * https://checkwiki.toolforge.org/cgi-bin/checkwiki.cgi?project=enwiki&view=all
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HeyElliott/ToDo
 * Community Tech/Wishathon for a list of community proposals https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Wishathon

Tools List

 * Article wizard
 * Tools/Editing tools
 * Tools
 * Help:Wikitext (reference on Wikitext syntax)
 * Help:Text editor support
 * Wikimedia Developer Portal https://developer.wikimedia.org/
 * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Gadget-Cat-a-lot
 * Find duplicate named arguments User:Frietjes/findargdups
 * Article content assessment User:Evad37
 * pywikibot https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/Overview
 * Quarry - run SQL queries against Wikipedia & other databases from your browser https://quarry.wmcloud.org/
 * MediaWiki API https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page
 * Finding and coordinating outreach opportunities
 * Analyze template parameter usage distributions https://bambots.brucemyers.com/TemplateParam.php
 * PetScan - powerful querying tool to generate lists https://petscan.wmflabs.org/
 * Wikipedia page PetScan
 * Documentation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PetScan/en
 * Page Views Statistics https://pageviews.wmcloud.org
 * Pageview statistics
 * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pageviews_Analysis
 * User scripts
 * WikiProject JavaScript
 * User scripts/List
 * User:Ohconfucius/script

Tools Used

 * Pageviews Analysis https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/
 * Check reference links and archive as needed https://iabot.wmcloud.org/index.php
 * Citation Bot User:Citation bot
 * WorldCat for finding the OCLC IDs for publications to put in citations https://search.worldcat.org/
 * Wayback Machine to find archives of pages https://web.archive.org/
 * Set custom User scripts User:Erictleung/common.js
 * CSV to Wiki Table http://mlei.net/shared/tool/csv-wiki.htm

Links on How to Edit

 * Student assignments
 * Neutral point of view
 * Reliable sources
 * Reliable sources/Perennial sources
 * Fringe theories
 * Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
 * User page design guide
 * The Wikipedia Adventure
 * https://wikiedu.org/

Improving writing and copywriting skills

 * User:Tony1/How to improve your writing
 * WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/How to
 * Writing Wikipedia Articles course
 * Writing better articles
 * Manual of Style
 * Manual of Style/Words to watch

Wikipedia policies

 * What Wikipedia is not
 * WP:NOTPAPER
 * WP:PROMO