Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/SGE2022

Schedule

 * xx:00 Tune in together online, sign in, mutual introductions, experienced editors can start editing
 * xx:15 Presentation to new editors: Wikipedia structure, policies and editing training
 * xx+2:00 Wrap up

FAQ
Do I have to register to attend?
 * Please register ahead of time using  (link) 

Do I have to be a Wikipedia editor already?
 * No. Newcomers are welcome. Editing training will be provided. Please try to create a Wikipedia username ahead of time if you don't already have one. You may do so link) HERE using the outreach dashboard page for this event.

What will be included in the Wikipedia editing training?
 * Training for new editors will cover most of the following topics'''

Wikimedia overview • Wikimedia movement

• Wikipedia, a web-based encyclopedia

• Wikimedia Commons, a data repository of media (images, videos and sounds). (See Wikiproject Wikimedia Commons:GLAM Wikiproject)

• Wikidata, a common source of data, also accessible by the other projects

• Wiktionary, a dictionary

• Wikibooks, educational textbooks

• Wikinews, news articles

• Wikiquote, a collection of quotations

• Wikisource, a library of source texts and documents

• Wikiversity, educational material

• Wikivoyage, a travel guide

• Wikispecies, a taxonomic catalogue of species

Wikipedia Policies • Username policy

• Five pillars

• Core content policies

• General notability guideline

• Verifiability

• Conflict of interest

• Identifying reliable sources

• No original research (Examples of Original Research)

• Citing sources

• Identifying and using primary sources

Sign Up/Register
Register using (link) .

'''Once registered, go to the event's (dashboard page link). New editors, select 'Sign up', existing editors, select 'Log in'.

Article work list
Articles for creation The numbers are links to potential sources

Past presidents, American Economic Association (Full list of red and blue links, with years of service, is also available Let's consider creating a page with a List of presidents of the American Economic Association, analogous to the List of presidents of the American Statistical Association


 * Analysis of variance table -- a new 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. Bring sources for this.
 * Fritz J. Scheuren

Be sure the add the following categories where applicable:
 * list related to statistics ; cut those which are not also connected to economics
 * George C. Shattuck
 * Edward Dana Durand (AKA E. Dana Durand)  (Pre-1925 (fair use) photo available here. Download it to your device, upload to Commons, add to article)
 * Carroll W. Doten
 * William S. Rossiter
 * Robert E. Chaddock
 * Edmund E. Day
 * Stuart Arthur Rice
 * F. Leslie Hayford
 * Ralph J. Watkins
 * William R. Leonard
 * Walter E. Hoadley
 * Raymond T. Bowman
 * T. A. Bancroft
 * Franklin A. Graybill
 * Ralph A. Bradley
 * I. Richard Savage
 * J. Stuart Hunter
 * Mitchell H. Gail
 * Jon R. Kettenring
 * Jonas H. Ellenberg
 * W. Michael O'Fallon
 * Richard L. Scheaffer
 * Miron L. Straf
 * Robert L. Mason (statistician)
 * Peter A. Lachenbruch
 * Sastry G. Pantula
 * Robert N. Rodriguez
 * Nathaniel Schenker
 * David R. Morganstein
 * Joseph W. Duncan UN Source, page 37
 * James F. Holmes, former acting Census Bureau director,
 * Washington Statistical Society based on historical info on the WSS


 * International Statistical Congress based on

Existing articles for improvement

Biographies
 * Improve any biography from this List of economists (analogous to List of statisticians)
 * Improve any biography from this List of women in economics (analogous to List of women in statistics)
 * Katherine K. Wallman, former Chief Statistician of the U.S.UN Source see page 65
 * Margaret E. Martin, economist/statistician at Bureau of the Budget and influential on U.S. economic statistics
 * Isador Lubin
 * Janet L. Norwood
 * Carroll D. Wright - - Follow guidance in template (improve/add inline citations)


 * trim below to focus on economists and closely relevant topics
 * Vincent Barabba   (The last source is House testimony. (Add external link section to articles and then testimony to the external link section)
 * Clifford Hildreth
 * Irene Hess
 * Cynthia Rudin
 * Susan Murphy
 * Elizabeth Scott (mathematician)
 * Arlene Ash


 * Helen M. Walker
 * Lynne Billard
 * Edward Fulton Denison -- ASA Fellow, significant economist -- draw from sources on talk page, and any ASA sources
 * John Whitefield Kendrick -- ASA Fellow, significant economist -- draw from sources on talk page, and any ASA sources
 * Morris H. Hansen article could refer to Hansen Lecture and include his picture and Census-history details from
 * S. N. D. North - (Upload photo from Census source to Commons and add to article)
 * William Rush Merriam - Add references, follow guidance in template (reorder text).

Concepts, terms, events, organizations
 * Analysis of variance - edit to express in simpler language
 * Coefficient of determination, which includes adjusted R-squared -- write as simply as possible; Regina's an expert on this
 * Add at least a redirect for indirect seasonal adjustment - meaning seasonal adjustment of underlying time series which are then combined
 * and for residual seasonality - seasonality properties of a time series left over after indirect seasonal adjustment
 * evaluate whether we have enough on Lowe index?
 * Topics suggested at WikiProject Economics and its talk page
 * Denton procedure for "temporal disaggregation" (estimating quarterly figures based on an annual series and a related quarterly indicator or preliminary series)


 * Statistics Without Borders
 * Topics suggested by the Statistics 2013: International Year of Statistics site
 * For ideas see also the very nice Statistics portal
 * Same for R. A. Fisher Lectureship
 * Tag statistics articles for WikiProject Statistics on their talk pages, with   or a further filled-in version
 * American Statistical Association (any update appropriate?)


 * U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics - add info about Census of Jails and Annual Survey of Jails, which were important sources to seeing changes in inmate and jail staff populations during the covid period (can cite Zeng et al)

Other sources

 * Expand Census in Egypt with sources on 1848 Census listed below
 * and
 * Saleh, Mohamed. Historical Origins of Inter-Religion Differences: Evidence from 19th and 20th Century Egypt University of Southern California, Dept of Economics, dissertation proposal.
 * Saleh, Mohamed. 2011. The Reluctant Transformation: Modernization, Religion, and Human Capital in Nineteenth Century Egypt. working paper, Univ of Southern California.
 * Cuno, Kenneth M., and Reimer, Michael J. 1997. The Census Registers of Nineteenth-Century Egypt: A New Source for Social Historians. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 24:2. 193–216. (on JSTOR)
 * Fargues, Philippe. Family and household in mid-nineteenth century Cairo. In Doumani, Beshara, ed. Family history in the Middle East: household, property, and gender

Outcomes

 * list and note whether created, expanded, what kinds of changes made -- just for our own morale