User:Erictleung

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Erictleung is based in New York City, professionally working as a data scientist. I edit Wikipedia in my free time to improve our collective knowledge of the world, and to better my understanding of it, too. Plus, it gives me an avenue to practice writing.

It also feels great to chip in to a project that only 121,250 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_acts information 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:

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

Pages extensively worked on

Cabinet of curiosities

An ongoing list of pages I like coming back to.

Aggregate pages

List of lists of lists

Single pages

Kindred Spirits (sculpture) "commemorates the 1847 donation by the Native American Choctaw People to Irish famine relief during the 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:

Links on How to Edit

Improving writing and copywriting skills