| Task type | Total in year 2025 | Total in year 2024 | Total in year 2023 | Total in year 2022 | Total in year 2021 | Total in year 2020 | Total in year 2019 | Total in year 2018 | Total in year 2017 | Total in year 2016 | Total in year 2015 | Total across years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 110.41 | 506.50 | 2,510.00 | 472.00 | 465.00 | 0.00 | 4,063.91 |
| Data entry | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 110.33 | 775.26 | 440.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1,325.59 |
| Preliminary research | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 80.00 | 0.00 | 80.00 |
| Total | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 110.41 | 616.83 | 3,285.26 | 912.00 | 545.00 | 0.00 | 5,469.50 |
Graph of payments made by task type and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of payments made by task type and year (cumulative)
| Month | Coding | Data entry | Preliminary research | Total across task types |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-12 | 105.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 105.00 |
| 2020-04 | 5.41 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.41 |
| 2019-12 | 105.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 105.00 |
| 2019-08 | 0.00 | 1.27 | 0.00 | 1.27 |
| 2019-06 | 14.06 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 14.06 |
| 2019-05 | 69.92 | 109.06 | 0.00 | 178.98 |
| 2019-04 | 166.73 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 166.73 |
| 2019-03 | 33.09 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 33.09 |
| 2019-02 | 42.47 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 42.47 |
| 2019-01 | 75.23 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 75.23 |
| 2018-12 | 263.00 | 8.76 | 0.00 | 271.76 |
| 2018-11 | 0.00 | 53.98 | 0.00 | 53.98 |
| 2018-10 | 0.00 | 82.57 | 0.00 | 82.57 |
| 2018-09 | 0.00 | 107.95 | 0.00 | 107.95 |
| 2018-08 | 215.00 | 9.00 | 0.00 | 224.00 |
| 2018-07 | 554.00 | 17.00 | 0.00 | 571.00 |
| 2018-06 | 55.00 | 396.00 | 0.00 | 451.00 |
| 2018-05 | 78.00 | 100.00 | 0.00 | 178.00 |
| 2018-04 | 250.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 250.00 |
| 2018-03 | 70.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 70.00 |
| 2018-02 | 350.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 350.00 |
| 2018-01 | 675.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 675.00 |
| 2017-12 | 472.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 472.00 |
| 2017-11 | 0.00 | 150.00 | 0.00 | 150.00 |
| 2017-04 | 0.00 | 230.00 | 0.00 | 230.00 |
| 2017-03 | 0.00 | 60.00 | 0.00 | 60.00 |
| 2016-11 | 165.00 | 0.00 | 80.00 | 245.00 |
| 2016-10 | 150.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 150.00 |
| 2016-09 | 150.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 150.00 |
| Total across months | 4,063.91 | 1,325.59 | 80.00 | 5,469.50 |
Graph of payments made by task type and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of payments made by task type and year (cumulative)
| Worker | Task venue | Task type | Task receptacle | Completion date | Payer | Payment | Topic | Time spent (hours:minutes) | Effective pay per hour | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Issa Rice | None | Coding | Backups | 2020-12-31 | Vipul Naik | 105.00 | Wikipedia/Backup | Payment for maintaining the process that does daily backups of Wikipedia content, at $2/week for 52 weeks, from 2020-01-01 to 2020-12-31, with an extra dollar because of the extra day beyond 52 weeks | ||
| Issa Rice | AI Watch | Coding | AI Watch | 2020-04-19 | Vipul Naik | 5.41 | AI safety | 0:34 | 9.55 | Work done 2020-04-11 and 2020-04-19 at $9.50/hour. This comprises work on https://github.com/riceissa/aiwatch/issues/20 (2020-04-11), https://github.com/riceissa/aiwatch/issues/21 (2020-04-19), and https://github.com/riceissa/aiwatch/issues/22 (2020-04-19). |
| Issa Rice | None | Coding | Backups | 2019-12-31 | Vipul Naik | 105.00 | Wikipedia/Backup | Payment for maintaining the process that does daily backups of Wikipedia content, at $2/week for 52 weeks, from 2019-01-01 to 2019-12-31, with an extra dollar because of the extra day beyond 52 weeks | ||
| Issa Rice | AI Watch | Data entry | AI Watch | 2019-08-16 | Vipul Naik | 1.27 | AI safety | 0:08 | 9.53 | See https://github.com/riceissa/aiwatch/commit/02f2358640ad027f7906c9e7fe3179f13aedea81 for the commit |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Donations list website | 2019-06-30 | Vipul Naik | 14.06 | Philanthropy | 1:29 | 9.48 | See https://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/commits?author=riceissa&since=2019-06-01&until=2019-07-01 for the work done. Work was done between 2019-06-20 and 2019-05-30 |
| Issa Rice | AI Watch | Data entry | AI Watch | 2019-05-22 | Vipul Naik | 109.06 | AI safety | 11:29 | 9.50 | See https://github.com/riceissa/aiwatch/commits?author=riceissa&since=2019-05-01&until=2019-06-01 for the work done. Work was done between 2019-05-02 and 2019-05-22. Although all the time spent is counted under AI Watch, some of the work was for the related Org Watch |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Donations list website | 2019-05-13 | Vipul Naik | 69.92 | Philanthropy | 7:22 | 9.49 | See https://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/commits?author=riceissa&since=2019-05-01&until=2019-06-01 for the work done. Work was done between 2019-05-01 and 2019-05-13 |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Donations list website | 2019-04-28 | Vipul Naik | 166.73 | Philanthropy | 17:33 | 9.50 | See https://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/commits?author=riceissa&since=2019-04-01&until=2019-05-01 for the work done. Work was done between 2019-04-08 and 2019-04-28 |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Donations list website | 2019-03-27 | Vipul Naik | 33.09 | Philanthropy | 3:29 | 9.50 | See https://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/commits?author=riceissa&since=2019-03-01&until=2019-04-01 for the work done. Work was done between 2019-03-10 and 2019-03-27 |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Donations list website | 2019-02-26 | Vipul Naik | 42.47 | Philanthropy | 4:29 | 9.47 | Most of the focus was on adding various kinds of donation statistics that are particularly useful for large donors who have made lots of donations. Work was done between 2019-02-02 and 2019-02-26 |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Donations list website | 2019-01-21 | Vipul Naik | 75.23 | Philanthropy | 8:51 | 8.50 | Most of the focus was on writing code to process grants lists for a number of foundation donors. See issues #89 to #107 (not all of them were completed or worked on within the month of January). Work was done between 2019-01-10 and 2019-01-21 |
| Issa Rice | None | Coding | Backups | 2018-12-31 | Vipul Naik | 113.00 | Wikipedia/Backup | Payment for maintaining the process that does daily backups of Wikipedia content, at $2/week for 56.5 weeks, from 2017-12-02 to 2018-12-31 | ||
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Data entry | Donations list website | 2018-12-27 | Vipul Naik | 8.76 | Philanthropy | 1:02 | 8.48 | Most of the focus was on adding metadata for a number of donees. Work was done between 2018-12-05 and 2018-12-27 |
| Issa Rice | analytics.vipulnaik.com | Coding | analytics.vipulnaik.com | 2018-12-15 | Vipul Naik | 150.00 | Analytics | 12:55 | 11.61 | Setup work for a public website https://analytics.vipulnaik.com that records Google Analytics data for a number of websites. Pay for this was set as max{$150, $8.50/hour * Time spent}. 12.92 hours were spent on the first phase of work, so the $150 was binding. Work done 2018-11-26 to 2018-12-15. GitHub repository at https://github.com/riceissa/analytics-table |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Data entry | Donations list website | 2018-11-29 | Vipul Naik | 53.98 | Philanthropy | 6:21 | 8.50 | Most of the focus was on adding metadata for a number of donees. Work was done between 2018-11-06 and 2018-11-29 |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Data entry | Donations list website | 2018-10-22 | Vipul Naik | 66.44 | Philanthropy | 7:49 | 8.50 | Most of the focus was on adding metadata for a number of donees. Work was done between 2018-10-05 and 2018-10-22 |
| Issa Rice | Org Watch | Data entry | Org Watch | 2018-10-17 | Vipul Naik | 16.13 | Organizational structures and dynamics | 2:09 | 7.50 | Work done primarily between 2018-10-06 and 2018-10-17 |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Data entry | Donations list website | 2018-09-21 | Vipul Naik | 39.10 | Philanthropy | 4:36 | 8.50 | Work on MIRI top donors updates and BERI grants. Work done between 2018-09-01 and 2018-09-21. See https://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/commits/master/sql?author=riceissa and check the September 2018 commits for more information |
| Issa Rice | Org Watch | Data entry | Org Watch | 2018-09-19 | Vipul Naik | 68.85 | Organizational structures and dynamics | 9:11 | 7.50 | Work done primarily between 2018-09-13 and 2018-09-19 adding data for The Good Food Institute and Effective Altruism Foundation and making other minor edits; see https://github.com/riceissa/aiwatch/commits and check the September 2018 commits for more. |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Donations list website | 2018-08-30 | Vipul Naik | 215.00 | Philanthropy | 25:18 | 8.50 | Work on a bunch of issues related to importing grants databases for different donors into the donations list website. See comments made in August 2018 on http://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/issues for more information. Dates of work ranged from August 5 to August 30 |
| Issa Rice | Computing data project | Data entry | Computing data project | 2018-08-27 | Vipul Naik | 9.00 | Computer science | 1:12 | 7.50 | Addition of some more provider data (Amazon Lightsail) and other related work. Work done on August 27 |
| Issa Rice | Org Watch | Data entry | Org Watch | 2018-07-31 | Vipul Naik | 17.00 | Organizational structures and dynamics | 2:17 | 7.45 | A little bit of work adding more data for some already added orgs. Work begun end of July and continued in August; this payment is for the part of work till the end of July |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Donations list website | 2018-07-31 | Vipul Naik | 146.00 | Philanthropy | 17:11 | 8.50 | Work on a bunch of issues related to importing grants databases for different donors into the donations list website. See comments made in July 2018 on http://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/issues for more information. |
| Issa Rice | Computing data project | Coding | Computing data project | 2018-07-29 | Vipul Naik | 408.00 | Computer science | 41:53 | 9.74 | Basic setup and initial data entry to do comparison across different cloud providers for compute, storage, and network. Payment for work done throughout the month. Check https://github.com/riceissa/computing-data-project/commits for the dates that work was done |
| Issa Rice | Org Watch | Data entry | Org Watch | 2018-06-30 | Vipul Naik | 396.00 | Organizational structures and dynamics | 52:48 | 7.50 | Work on a new site: Org Watch https://orgwatch.issarice.com/ building on the same code and data format used for AI Watch https://aiwatch.issarice.com/ The idea of the new site is to expand coverage to organizations and positions outside AI safety. Work at a pay rate of $60 per 8-hour day, or $7.50/hour |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Donations list website | 2018-06-30 | Vipul Naik | 55.00 | Philanthropy | 6:27 | 8.53 | Work on a bunch of issues related to importing grants databases for different donors into the donations list website. See comments made in June 2018 on http://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/issues for more information. |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Donations list website | 2018-05-31 | Vipul Naik | 78.00 | Philanthropy | 9:08 | 8.54 | Work on a bunch of issues related to importing grants databases for different donors into the donations list website. See comments made in May 2018 on http://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/issues for more information. |
| Issa Rice | AI Watch | Data entry | AI Watch | 2018-05-29 | Vipul Naik | 100.00 | Organizational structures and dynamics | 16:00 | 6.25 | 2 days (total 16 hours: May 28 and May 29) of work to add more data and summarization tools for people at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute: https://aiwatch.issarice.com/?organization=Machine+Intelligence+Research+Institute |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Donations list website | 2018-04-30 | Vipul Naik | 250.00 | Philanthropy | 29:43 | 8.41 | Work on a bunch of issues related to importing grants databases for different donors into the donations list website. See comments made in April 2018 on http://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/issues for more information. |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Donations list website | 2018-03-31 | Vipul Naik | 70.00 | Philanthropy | 8:12 | 8.54 | Work on a bunch of issues related to importing grants databases for different donors into the donations list website. See comments made in March 2018 on http://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/issues for more information. |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Donations list website | 2018-02-28 | Vipul Naik | 350.00 | Philanthropy | 41:00 | 8.54 | Work on a bunch of issues related to importing grants databases for different donors into the donations list website. See comments made in February 2018 on http://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/issues for more information. |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Donations list website | 2018-01-31 | Vipul Naik | 675.00 | Philanthropy | 79:20 | 8.51 | Work on a bunch of issues related to importing grants databases for different donors into the donations list website. See comments made in January 2018 on http://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/issues for more information. |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Donations list website | 2017-12-30 | Vipul Naik | 260.00 | Philanthropy | 30:18 | 8.58 | Work on a bunch of issues related to importing grants databases for different donors into the donations list website. See comments made in December 2017 on http://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/issues for more information. |
| Issa Rice | None | Coding | Backups | 2017-12-03 | Vipul Naik | 212.00 | Wikipedia/Backup | Payment for maintaining the process that does daily backups of Wikipedia content, at $4/week for 53 weeks | ||
| Issa Rice | AI Watch | Data entry | AI Watch | 2017-11-07 | Vipul Naik | 150.00 | AI safety | 23:51 | 6.29 | Phase 1 of work on AI Watch, a site to better track the people and organizations working on AI safety. As of the time of finalizing pay, 309 people were entered. In addition to data entry, Issa also designed the database schema and wrote code to render data from the database in tables |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Data entry | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation | 2017-04-23 | Vipul Naik | 230.00 | Foundation grants | Processed Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grants from IATI at https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf to generate data for insertion in donations database. Code available at https://github.com/riceissa/gates-foundation-iati-processing -- run the commands there and then pass the generated SQL to the donations database | ||
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Data entry | Laura and John Arnold Foundation | 2017-03-22 | Vipul Naik | 60.00 | Foundation grants | Processed Arnold Foundation grants to generate data for insertion in donations database. Code available at https://github.com/riceissa/arnold-foundation-grants and insertion code can be pasted from https://github.com/riceissa/arnold-foundation-grants in MySQL | ||
| Issa Rice | None | Coding | Backups | 2016-11-28 | Vipul Naik | 100.00 | Wikipedia/Backup | Setup for periodic backup of all important Wikipedia content for easy recoverability | ||
| Issa Rice | Wikipedia Views | Coding | Help pages | 2016-11-21 | Vipul Naik | 25.00 | Wikipedia | List of help pages in all language Wikipedias | ||
| Issa Rice | Wikipedia Views | Coding | Special pages | 2016-11-20 | Vipul Naik | 40.00 | Wikipedia | List of special pages in all language Wikipedias | ||
| Issa Rice | None | Preliminary research | N/A | 2016-11-15 | Vipul Naik | 80.00 | United States migration/Survey research | Investigation into correlation between estimates of foreign-born and unauthorized population and state-level values of the population | ||
| Issa Rice | Wikipedia Views | Coding | Tag entries in different languages | 2016-10-04 | Vipul Naik | 150.00 | Wikipedia Views | Wrote code to translate tags en masse to new languages. Code still exists, plan is now to incorporate into Wikipedia Views itself to avoid need to run separate code | ||
| Issa Rice | None | Coding | Wikipedia tag page list translation | 2016-09-30 | Vipul Naik | 150.00 | Wikipedia | Code to translate pages in bulk from one language to another, executed for various language pairs and lists. The completion date is approximate. The payment was finalized on November 8 2017, and will be included with the 2017 tax year |