Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Statistics2017

Schedule

 * 11:30am: Arrive, chat, SIGN-IN, experienced editors can start editing
 * 11:45am: Introductions to one another, and presentation of background materials to use
 * 12:00pm: Presentation: Wikipedia structure, policies and editing training
 * 12:30pm: Lunch
 * Until 4pm: Editing, reading, chatting

FAQ
What should I bring?
 * A laptop computer, if possible. We expect to have a few spare tablet notebooks for attendees too.
 * Optionally, materials to incorporate into Wikipedia articles

Do I have to register to attend, or can I just arrive on the day?
 * Please register ahead of time using  Eventbrite 

Do I have to be a Wikipedia editor already?
 * No. Newcomers are welcome. Editing training will be provided. We'll refer to these:
 * Editing Tips/Wikipedia Policies

• : Five pillars and Core content policies

• : Policies and guidelines

• : Help:Getting started

• : Cheatsheet for Wiki markup

• : Featured Articles

• : Starting an article

• : Intro to Wikipedia Slides

• : General notability guideline

• : Verifiability

• : Conflict of interest

• : No original research (Examples of Original Research)

• : Help:Referencing for beginners

• : Citing sources

• : Identifying and using primary sources

• : Creating Redirects with Visual Editor

• : Creating Redirects with Source Editor

• : Using categories

• : Wiki Ed Foundation's online training modules

• : Wikicommons

• : Wikidata

• : Wikimedia Statistics

• : Wiki Education Foundation

What if I get hungry?
 * FREE lunch will be provided.

'''Can I arrive late? Or leave early? Or stay late?'''
 * Arrive any time and we won't lock anyone in! This event ends promptly at 4PM. You are welcome to continue editing at home.

Sign Up/Register
You may register using Eventbrite . If you already know how to edit, you can also sign-up by adding your name below.

Attending

 * econterms (talk) 00:05, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Hildabast (talk) 21:19, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
 * DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 01:42, 28 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Maybe include wiktionary terms? What about wikidata? I have more thoughts! See y'all there! --TheBlueWizard (talk) 05:36, 28 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Antony–22 (talk⁄contribs) 19:25, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
 * add your name or username

Maybe

 * Mike Messner

To do list

 * Likely topics in general: making articles less technical, and clearer in the lead, using simpler English ; fill in biographies
 * See Table 4 for list of common statistical terms for articles to perhaps improve: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4840969/
 * Fill in the red-linked names on the List of presidents of the American Statistical Association. Generally each such article should be in these categories:
 * Add photographs for past-presidents of ASA. For example, Frederick Mosteller's: https://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/people/mosteller.gif. Many others can be found at Peter Lee's webpage: - or in past issues of AmstatNews. (Many of these do not seem to be under free licenses. DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 18:09, 11 November 2017 (UTC))
 * Fritz J. Scheuren, noted author, past president of ASA, active in the WSS
 * 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
 * Analysis of variance -- edit to express in simpler language
 * 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.
 * Tag statistics articles for WikiProject Statistics on their talk pages, with   or a further filled-in version
 * Improve any biography from this List of statisticians
 * American Statistical Association (any update appropriate?)
 * Morris H. Hansen article could refer to Hansen Lecture and include his picture and Census-history details from
 * Topics suggested at WikiProject Statistics and its talk page
 * Coefficient of determination, which includes adjusted R-squared -- write as simply as possible; Regina's an expert on this
 * We might demo Statipedia, a workspace for federal gov staff -- not notable enough for an article on Wikipedia, but a good site to develop for federal gov methods, practices, procedures, workplaces, locations, etc.
 * 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?

<!-- More possibilities:
 * expand Census in Egypt with sources on 1848 Census listed below
 * Statistics Without Borders  (any update appropriate?)
 * Topics suggested by the Statistics 2013: International Year of Statistics site
 * for ideas see also the very nice Statistics portal
 * add more here!

Perhaps especially:
 * Potential new articles
 * International Statistical Congress based on
 * Washington Statistical Society based on historical info on the WSS
 * Create articles where red links exists on this List of presidents of the American Statistical Association. (Some links to references are available.)
 * Katherine K. Wallman, now Chief Statistician of the U.S.

-->
 * Margaret E. Martin, economist/statistician at Bureau of the Budget and influential on U.S. economic statistics ; one source is her obit in the Washington Post
 * Isador Lubin who was also notable as a Commissioner of BLS
 * Janet L. Norwood
 * Helen M. Walker
 * Lynne Billard
 * Same for R. A. Fisher Lectureship

Resources to use and cite

 * OpenIntro Statistics textbooks
 * Here's the formatting for using this as a reference (go to edit view to copy & paste the full reference):

Hildabast (talk) 17:30, 11 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Here's a PDF of a dictionary of epidemiology (click on the reference to copy & paste the full reference). Hildabast (talk) 18:00, 11 November 2017 (UTC)


 * ASA resources
 * on Egyptian censuses:  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-nineeenth century Cairo. In Doumani, Beshara, ed. Family history in the Middle East: household, property, and gender

Articles created

 * Barry D. Nussbaum -- ASA president
 * Absolute risk

Articles expanded

 * Added info box to Mary W. Gray, and tagged it with WP Stats
 * Gave a short tutorial on how to add an infobox to John Whitefield Kendrick, with the infobox actually created and added
 * Added infobox to Edward Fulton Denison

Attendees

 * econterms (talk) 16:28, 11 November 2017 (UTC)


 * DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 16:53, 11 November 2017 (UTC)


 * GinaZzo (talk) 16:57, 11 November 2017 (UTC)


 * MichaelJM (talk) 17:14, 11 November 2017 (UTC)


 * UnicornRainbowStatistics (talk) 18:36, 11 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Statoutlier (talk) 19:07, 11 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Rotrac (talk) 19:41, 11 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Londonjackbooks (talk) 20:13, 11 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Windsparrow (talk) 20:15, 11 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Hildabast (talk) 20:44, 11 November 2017 (UTC)


 * TheBlueWizard (talk) 20:44, 11 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Antony–22 (talk⁄contribs) 22:30, 11 November 2017 (UTC)