Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Statistics2017

• 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

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 [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/making-statistics-clear-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-tickets-39063625355 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

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:* Wikipedia:Five pillars and Wikipedia:Core content policies

:* Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines

:* Help:Getting started

:* Cheatsheet for Wiki markup

:* Wikipedia:Featured Articles

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:* Wikipedia:General notability guideline

:* Wikipedia:Verifiability

:* Wikipedia:Conflict of interest

:* Wikipedia:No original research (Examples of Original Research)

:* Help:Referencing for beginners

:* Wikipedia:Citing sources

:* Wikipedia:Identifying and using primary sources

:* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect#Using_VisualEditor Creating Redirects with Visual Editor]

:* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect#Editing_the_source_directly Creating Redirects with Source Editor]

:* Using categories

:* [https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/training/students Wiki Ed Foundation's online training modules]

:* [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikicommons]

:* [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page Wikidata]

:* [https://stats.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Statistics]

:* [https://wikiedu.org Wiki Education Foundation]

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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.

You may register using [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/making-statistics-clear-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-tickets-39063625355 Eventbrite]. If you already know how to edit, you can also sign-up by adding your name below.

• 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

• Mike Messner

• 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:

  Category:American statisticians Category:Fellows of the American Statistical Association Category:Presidents of the American Statistical Association Category:Living people

• Add photographs for past-presidents of ASA. For example, Frederick Mosteller's: [https://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/people/mosteller.gif https://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/people/mosteller.gif]. Many others can be found at Peter Lee's webpage:[https://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/people/] - 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 {{WikiProject Statistics | class = | importance = }} 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 [http://washstat.org/hansen/Morris Hansen Lecture] and include his picture and Census-history details from [http://www.census.gov/history/www/census_then_now/history_staff/about_the_history_staff.html]
• 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?

• OpenIntro Statistics textbooks [https://www.openintro.org/stat/textbook.php]

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

{{cite book|last1=Diez|first1=David M|last2=Barr|first2=Christopher D|last3=Cetinkaya-Rundel|first3=Mine|title=OpenIntro Statistics|date=2017|publisher=OpenIntro|edition= 3rd|url=https://www.openintro.org/stat/textbook.php|accessdate=11 November 2017}}

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).{{cite book|last1=Porta|first1=ed. for the International Epidemiological Association by Miquel|title=A dictionary of epidemiology.|date=2014|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=9780199976720|edition=6th|url=http://irea.ir/files/site1/pages/dictionary.pdf|accessdate=11 November 2017}} Hildabast (talk) 18:00, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

• ASA resources
• on Egyptian censuses: [http://books.google.com/books?id=i9zMIomea-8C&lpg=PA150&ots=wrgF6NcTST&dq=1848%20egyptian%20census&pg=PA150#v=onepage&q=1848%20egyptian%20census&f=false] and [http://eh.net/eha/system/files/Saleh.pdf]
• Saleh, Mohamed. [http://www.luc.edu/orgs/meea/volume12/PDFS/Saleh_Historical%20Origins%20of%20Inter-Religion%20differences.pdf 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. [http://eh.net/eha/system/files/Saleh_0.pdf 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. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/195772 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. [http://books.google.com/books?id=5m4pQSQuLM8C&lpg=PA25&ots=xP_fM2PmTz&dq=1848%20egyptian%20census&pg=PA26#v=onepage&q=1848%20egyptian%20census&f=false Family and household in mid-nineeenth century Cairo.] In Doumani, Beshara, ed. Family history in the Middle East: household, property, and gender

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

• 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

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• 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)