User:Erictleung
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Erictleung is based in
It also feels great to chip in to a project that only 123,674 other active editors (and around 69k other extended confirmed users) around the world contribute to.
As a data person, I was curious to know my Wikipedia editing statistics https://xtools.wmcloud.org/ec/en.wikipedia.org/Erictleung
Current Wikipedia Focus
- Draft on the subject of my previous academic work User:Erictleung/Bladder microbiome
- Improving the Marketing mix modeling and Marketing mix pages with improved citations, improved wording flow, and clarity
- More generally to help improve articles under Wikipedia:WikiProject Marketing & Advertising
- Frequency (marketing)
- Gross rating point
- Target rating point
- Reach (advertising)
- Removing deprecated
associated_actsinformation from musician infoboxes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pages_using_infobox_musical_artist_with_associated_acts (as of 2024-01-29, there are 43,456 pages that need fixing) - Improving Nunchi article
- Adding references for years of Rose Parade marching bands
Backlog Wishlist
List of things that would be nice to work on later.
- An Infobox template for a streetcorner
Motivations
"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge."
Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia
I started my account on 2016-07-14, but only in 2024 have I gained a more active interest in editing and contributing to Wikipedia.
I now believe that my value and excitement around Wikipedia is around the people who keep it running and generally engage with it. My sentiments around Wikipedia are summed up in this quote by current Director of Machine Learning at Wikimedia, Chris Albon:
..., the thing that stands out so clearly in my mind is that Wikipedia is built by people and for the people, and it is here to stay.
The ubiquity of Wikipedia can make it easy to forget that behind every fact, every image, and every word in every article is a person — a person with a life, with family, friends, and pressures on their time.
People are why Wikipedia continues to persist.[1]
It also an avenue to share knowledge, improve a fascinating project, and learn about the world. It also gives me a chance to "Leave things a little better than [I] found them" for a resource I respect. These are some motivations that are also shared with editors, too.
Interests
I am generally knowledgeable of the following:
- statistics and probability,
- bioinformatics and computational biology,
- programming and software engineering,
- movies and TV shows,
- Go (game),
- open-source software and data,
- marketing analytics, and
- the human microbiome.
I am also interested in expanding my knowledge around the following:
- US and world history,
- (adult) education,
- linguistics,
- economics and econometrics,
- philosophy and epistemology, and
- art history
So my edits will surround some combination or extension of the topics above. But won't be limited to these, either.
Pages of interest
Pages created
- Frequency (marketing)
- Datasaurus dozen
- Portland Women in Technology
- Christopher Marley
- Guillermo Vasquez Corner
Pages extensively worked on
- freeCodeCamp
- Opentrons
- 3D-Jury
- Marketing mix modeling
- Statistical thinking
- Zen of Python
- Jenks High School
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
- R (programming language)
Cabinet of curiosities
An ongoing list of pages I like coming back to.
Aggregate pages
Single pages
- Great Hunger, despite the Choctaw themselves living in hardship and poverty and having recently endured the Trail of Tears."
- Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians lists formerly and reasonably active Wikipedia editors that have just left the site without explanation.
- The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of a Case of "Writer's Block"
Helpful links
Links and resources for things I find helpful in editing or generally understanding Wikipedia:
Finding tasks
- Wikipedia:Task Center
- Category:Wikipedia backlog
- Wikipedia:Maintenance
- Category:Wikipedia maintenance
- https://checkwiki.toolforge.org/cgi-bin/checkwiki.cgi?project=enwiki&view=all
- Community Tech/Wishathon for a list of community proposals https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Wishathon
Tools List
- Wikipedia:Article wizard
- Wikipedia:Tools/Editing tools
- Wikipedia:Tools
- Help:Wikitext (reference on Wikitext syntax)
- Help:Text editor support
- Wikimedia Developer Portal https://developer.wikimedia.org/
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Gadget-Cat-a-lot
- Find duplicate named arguments User:Frietjes/findargdups
- Article content assessment User:Evad37
- pywikibot https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/Overview
- Quarry - run SQL queries against Wikipedia & other databases from your browser https://quarry.wmcloud.org/
- MediaWiki API https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page
- Finding and coordinating outreach opportunities
- Analyze template parameter usage distributions https://bambots.brucemyers.com/TemplateParam.php
- PetScan - powerful querying tool to generate lists https://petscan.wmflabs.org/
- Wikipedia page Wikipedia:PetScan
- Documentation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PetScan/en
- Page Views Statistics https://pageviews.wmcloud.org
- Wikipedia:User scripts
Tools Used
- Pageviews Analysis https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/
- Check reference links and archive as needed https://iabot.wmcloud.org/index.php
- Citation Bot User:Citation bot
- WorldCat for finding the OCLC IDs for publications to put in citations https://search.worldcat.org/
- Wayback Machine to find archives of pages https://web.archive.org/
- Set custom User scripts User:Erictleung/common.js
- CSV to Wiki Table http://mlei.net/shared/tool/csv-wiki.htm
Links on How to Edit
- Wikipedia:Student assignments
- Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
- Wikipedia:Reliable sources
- Wikipedia:Fringe theories
- Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
- Wikipedia:User page design guide
- Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Adventure