Issa Rice | None | Consulting | N/A | 2022-11-18 | Vipul Naik | 1.14 | Wikipedia | Private communication | Spent 7 minutes at $9.50/hour helping Vipul figure out some stuff related to the setup of wikidossier (hosted at https://wikidossier.vipulnaik.com/ currently). Work done 2022-11-18. |
Issa Rice | None | Coding | Backups | 2020-12-31 | Vipul Naik | 105.00 | Wikipedia/Backup | Code and data | 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 | None | Coding | Backups | 2019-12-31 | Vipul Naik | 105.00 | Wikipedia/Backup | Code and data | 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 | Wikipedia Views | Coding | Wikipedia Views country breakdown | 2019-06-05 | Vipul Naik | 20.66 | Wikipedia | Code | Work done on 2019-06-04 and 2019-06-05 for some residual cleanup and fixes related to https://github.com/vipulnaik/wikipediaviews/issues/22 |
Issa Rice | Wikipedia Views | Coding | Wikipedia Views country breakdown | 2019-05-09 | Vipul Naik | 21.08 | Wikipedia | Code | Work done on 2019-05-08 and 2019-05-09 for https://github.com/vipulnaik/wikipediaviews/issues/22 |
Issa Rice | None | Coding | Backups | 2018-12-31 | Vipul Naik | 113.00 | Wikipedia/Backup | Code and data | 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 | Wikipedia Views | Coding | Wikipedia Clickstream | 2018-04-25 | Vipul Naik | 70.00 | Wikipedia | Code | Work done on April 21 and April 25, 2018. The work built on previous work with the clickstream dataset to streamline the monthly update process, now that the Wikimedia Foundation is publishing the datasets every month. See https://github.com/vipulnaik/wikipediaviews/issues/21 for the issue specifics |
Issa Rice | None | Coding | Backups | 2017-12-03 | Vipul Naik | 212.00 | Wikipedia/Backup | Code and data | Payment for maintaining the process that does daily backups of Wikipedia content, at $4/week for 53 weeks |
Issa Rice | Wikipedia spotlight | Blog post or article | Wikipedia spotlight | 2017-11-30 | Vipul Naik | 700.00 | Wikipedia | Prose | Still unpublished retrospective document of our experience with paid editing on Wikipedia. Payment is out of a total budget of $1000 for the project. It includes time spent from March to June, and two days in November. The November time alone is 15 hours; the previous time is not explicitly logged. The remaining work worth $300 is expected to take about six days |
Issa Rice | None | Preliminary research | Understanding different editing patterns on Wikipedia | 2017-03-11 | Vipul Naik | 100.00 | Wikipedia | Private communication + code | Added functionality to wikidossier to compare multiple users and do multiple namespaces for a single user. The interface is not yet public. However, you can visit https://github.com/riceissa/wikidossier for the underlying code. The last commit covered by this pay is https://github.com/riceissa/wikidossier/commit/ae343d95b27bb0cb65fcf886f96591cabd6d25ca (2017-03-11) |
Issa Rice | None | Preliminary research | Understanding different editing patterns on Wikipedia | 2017-03-03 | Vipul Naik | 200.00 | Wikipedia | Code | Research produced profiles of different kinds of Wikipedia editors, and an interface to generate a report on the trajectory of Wikipedia editor. The interface is not yet public. However, you can visit https://github.com/riceissa/wikidossier for the underlying code |
Issa Rice | LessWrong | Review | Wikipedia usage survey results | 2016-12-24 | Vipul Naik | 55.00 | Wikipedia | Prose with tables | Reviewed changes by Vipul, fixed a lot of rendering issues, and provided frank feedback on post |
Issa Rice | Wikimedia meta | Wiki page update | Timeline of Wikimedia analytics | 2016-11-30 | Vipul Naik | 10.00 | Wikipedia | Timeline | Timeline events on starting dates for availability of search metrics |
Issa Rice | None | Coding | Backups | 2016-11-28 | Vipul Naik | 100.00 | Wikipedia/Backup | Code and data | 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 | Code and data | List of help pages in all language Wikipedias |
Issa Rice | Wikipedia Views | Coding | Special pages | 2016-11-20 | Vipul Naik | 40.00 | Wikipedia | Code and data | List of special pages in all language Wikipedias |
Issa Rice | Wikipedia Views | Coding | distrib.py | 2016-11-19 | Vipul Naik | 40.00 | Wikipedia | Code | Code to show bar or line plot for distribution of Wikipedia pageviews |
Issa Rice | Wikipedia Views | Coding | Wikipedia Clickstream | 2016-11-04 | Vipul Naik | 130.00 | Wikipedia | Code | Processing of Wikipedia clickstream data set for use in Wikipedia Views. Successfully integrated in Wikipedia Views 2016-11-25 |
Issa Rice | Wikipedia Views | Coding | Tag entries in different languages | 2016-10-04 | Vipul Naik | 150.00 | Wikipedia Views | Code and data | 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 | LessWrong | Preliminary research | Revisiting the great decline in Wikipedia pageviews | 2016-10-03 | Vipul Naik | 925.00 | Wikipedia | Prose with tables and charts and code | Started on it at ~$100/day pay, slowed down, then we realized a lot more toolkit improvements are needed before we can push out the post |
Issa Rice | None | Coding | Wikipedia tag page list translation | 2016-09-30 | Vipul Naik | 150.00 | Wikipedia | Code and data | 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 |
Ethan Bashkansky | None | Survey recruitment | Wikipedia use change over time | 2016-09-30 | Vipul Naik | 20.50 | Wikipedia usage | Outreach | Got 41 responses from UW audience for 50 cents a response |
Issa Rice | None | Coding | Model for estimating the value of a Wikipedia page | 2016-08-29 | Vipul Naik | 40.00 | Wikipedia/Contract work | Code | Initial work piloted on a small subset of timelines, gives an estimate of the total money due based on attributes of the timeline |
Issa Rice | LessWrong | Blog post or article | Wikipedia usage survey results | 2016-07-14 | Vipul Naik | 110.00 | Wikipedia | Prose with tables | Finished writing up findings from survey conducted in late May |
Issa Rice | LessWrong | Survey creation | Wikipedia usage survey | 2016-05-31 | Vipul Naik | 70.00 | Wikipedia | Survey | Design of survey, buying responses, and preliminary analysis |