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:
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 [1]
to do: International Statistical Congress based on Randeraad, Nico (January 2011). "The International Statistical Congress (1853—1876): Knowledge Transfers and their Limits". European History Quarterly. 41 (1): 50–65. doi:10.1177/0265691410385759.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

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 [2]; watchlists on en.wp exceeds 1000
2016 Oct 9: presented on public policy panel at WikiCon NA 2016 [3],[4]
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 [5]
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.