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Here are some of the things I've done.
New or totally rewritten pages on . . . [ edit ]
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
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 )
Progress in time [ edit ]
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 .
