User:Econterms/Possible statistics edit-a-thon

Can collaborate with some mix of Statistics Without Borders, Statistics2013, the International Year of Statistics, ASA (American Statistical Assocation), and [http://washstat.org/ WSS (Washington Statistical Society). Peter Meyer and Justin Fisher can run it.

Agenda

• training for newbies
• tour or talk? some activity. Description of WikiData would be good. Anything User:Ram-Man can tell us about how he uploaded Census data for 2000 would be good. Perhaps Justin can describe his experience teaching survey stats in North Korea. (No kidding.)
• Adding/updating particular pages

• Statistics Without Borders (SWB)
• We can commit to create an article for the Washington Statistical Society -- it would be great to use that as a draw for its members. Historical info on the WSS: http://washstat.org/wsshist.html. Statipedia says it has 900 members, source unknown.
• American Statistical Association (any update appropriate?)
• Morris Hansen article could refer to Hansen Lecture

Location and timing

• The downtown DC main public library, the MLK library is convenient for hosts Peter and Justin. There are several rooms downstairs that are big enough and quiet/private enough -- A5, A9, A10, and perhaps others. This is our intended location.
• Someone needs to confirm: (1) that we can have good net access there; (2) that we can have refreshments there; (3) that for presentations we can arrange to have tables, a data projector, and a screen
• Peter to contact likely partner WSS (Washington Statistical Society, the local chapter of the American Statistical Association). Justin is president of Statistics Without Borders which is a cosponsor too but may not have many locals.

• Would like to have short presentations on (a) WikiData ; (b) Justin's trip to North Korea to teach at Pyongyang Summer Institute (?!)
• Contact to Patrick Timony at DC MLK public library: http://www.dclibrary.org/node/32825

• There are other possible locations: Tenleytown library; wiki-DC conference room; a room at a coffee shop/restaurant. Or at WSS or ASA in Alexandria. Let's put these alternatives on ice the MLK library is looking good.

• We need a date that Peter and Justin and Gerald and hopefully several identified others. It really should be in calendar 2013 because 2013 is an internationally designated Year of Statistics.
• Timing: A Saturday afternoon? Monday or Wednesday evening?
• How easy is it to reserve these spaces?

Other background and issues

Possible icon for advertising this event: Histogram of sepal widths for Iris versicolor from Fisher's flower data set, with superimposed best-fitting normal distribution.

• Background: Ah! Some people wrote: How to run an edit-a-thon
• we anticipate that wiki-DC can sponsor some refreshments and materials.
• how do we get the wireless equipment and make it work?

Publicity

• Justin can broadcast to Statistics Without Borders (700 people, mostly not local).
• Justin can reach out to WSS (perhaps 900 members)
• Statistics2013/ASA contact info: they may help us identify interested people: http://www.amstat.org/newsroom/pressreleases/ASA_Statistics2013_Launch.pdf (Justin can follow up?)
• Peter can (through Mike Messner) broadcast to Statipedians (~100, mostly local).
• Peter can reach out through Abhijit to Data Science Meetup or R meetup, which are mostly local
• Peter can email Neil Tillman at Census who was interested in editing Wikipedia from there
• Peter advertise on Wikipedia:WikiProject Statistics ; also write Owen Martin from Wikimania