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List of new articles that any interested author can work on. A parenthetical "(reserved)" means that an author has already announced that he or she is working on it. If that author later decides not to continue with it, the page will be returned to the general pool.
Before you begin working on a page, you should see if a page has been created on Wikipedia! On several occasions, a page was created on Wikipedia between the time when a topic was added in this pool and when a worker tried to reserve the page. Watch out for name changes (organizations occasionally rename themselves), similar phrases that mean the same thing, and so forth. A few things to try:
- Google for the topic with "site:wikipedia.org". Try searching both with and without quotes.
- Wikipedia's own search. Note that by default, content in user and draft spaces are not indexed by search engines like Google. Doing an "Everything" search will locate even content on these pages.
Draft completion
Some already existing drafts need a little bit cleanup before they can be published and pushed to the world.
- Research preregistration: $18 for completion: Start from the draft at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Riceissa/Research_preregistration and complete. Work closely under Issa.
New pages
Research methods: recruitment, surveys, etc.
- Food record(s) (aka food diary), two main types: weighted food records and estimated food record: Similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_frequency_questionnaire with parallel set of references
Global (and national/local) health: not specific to any disease
Many of these pages are listed because they are red-linked from Priority-setting in global health.
- Selective primary healthcare: Expand on the section on the topic and make this its own page.
- 1988 Riga Conference: Start by reading about Alma Ata, since Riga was a follow-up to that. Also mention Riga in Alma Ata's page.
- Oregon Health Services Commission: One of the earlier efforts at explicit priority-setting within health. Start by reading the row for it at priority-setting in global health, as well as the references used there.
- WHO Ad Hoc Committee on Health Research Relating to Future Intervention Options: A WHO committee that did health research prioritization. Start by reading the description from a paper that mentions it (note that the section year in that paper should be 1994, not 1944).
- Council on Health Research and Development: A council that reviewed health research and development from developing countries.
- Lives Saved Tool (reserved for Chris): A tool created at Johns Hopkins University.
- EVIDEM Collaboration: Conducts literature review, "discussions with stakeholders", and multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA).
- Jeremy Shiffman: A person at the Center for Global Development (see bio) who has written papers about priority-setting.
- Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project (GRUMP): A population mapping project. Start with this page. Mention its importance in the Malaria Atlas Project (and other applications if they exist). Also make sure to mention GRUMP on the MAP Wikipedia page.
- WorldPop (reserved for Joey): A population mapping project. History section should mention AfriPop, AsiaPop, and AmeriPop, why they were separate in the beginning, why they were combined into a single project, and so on. Mention its importance in the Malaria Atlas Project and other applications. Also make sure to mention WorldPop on the MAP Wikipedia page.
- Igor Rudan: A researcher in global health. It's not clear he is notable enough to have a Wikipedia article, so part of your task will be to see if there's enough about him to write a page on/if he meets the notability criteria. Some of his work is linked from the priority-setting in global health page. Also see "Global health metrics needs collaboration and competition" in The Lancet.
Malaria
Note that after initial research, it may turn out for some of these pages that there's not enough yet to justify a Wikipedia page. You will be compensated for initial research and for leaving a partial stub in userspace.
Most of these are selected as red links from Timeline of malaria.
- Research Initiative on Traditional Antimalarial Methods (RITAM) (reserved for Sebastian): Founded in 1999 as a collaboration between WHO, GIFTS, and Oxford. See some info on the GIFTS page.
- Multilateral Initiative on Malaria: An alliance of organizations that facilitates research on malaria, established 1997.
- Global Malaria Control Strategy (reserved for Sebastian): Launched in 1992, confirmed by World Health Assembly in 1993. From the timeline of malaria Wikipedia page: "This new strategy is based largely upon the primary health care approach and requires flexible, cost-effective, sustainable, and decentralized programs based upon disease rather than parasite control, adapted to local conditions and responding to local needs. This approach becomes succesful and has positive impact in a number of countries such as Brazil, China, Solomon Islands, Philippines, Vanuatu, Vietnam, and Thailand. Its success demonstrates that malaria can be controlled by locally and currently available tools."
- Malaria Foundation International: Founded 1992 to fight against malaria.
- Abuja Declaration and African Summit on Roll Back Malaria – decide on the canonical title: a conference and accompanying declaration that took place in 2000 to commit to combating malaria. Mention predecessors like Harare Declaration of June 1997. Start with this paper.
- Ignace Vinke
- Marcel Lips
- Sebastiano Baldi
Philanthropy
The following are all organizations that are grantees of the Open Philanthropy Project under "History of Philanthropy". As such, your page should include a "Funding" section (or similar) that includes information about the Open Phil grant. See here for an example (note how there is a "Funding" section, and the page incorporates information from Open Phil's grant writeup). A good standard list of sections for an organization is: "History", "Funding", "Publications", "Reception", "See also" (related pages on Wikipedia), "External links" (related pages or further reading outside of Wikipedia), "References".
- ARNOVA: Start with Open Phil. Note that ARNOVA seems to do work outside of "history of philanthropy", but since Open Phil is funding them for this work, you should do your best to cover this area in particular.
Politics
The following are all organizations that are grantees of the Open Philanthropy Project under "Criminal Justice Reform". As such, your page should include a "Funding" section (or similar) that includes information about the Open Phil grant. See here for an example (note how there is a "Funding" section, and the page incorporates information from Open Phil's grant writeup). A good standard list of sections for an organization is: "History", "Funding", "Publications", "Reception", "See also" (related pages on Wikipedia), "External links" (related pages or further reading outside of Wikipedia), "References".
- Accountable Justice Project: See the Open Phil writeup. Note that this project is recently-launched/might not have launched yet. It also seems to be distinct from the "FSU Project on Accountable Justice" (see below; confusing, because if you Google for this, you get results for the latter). Watch also this search result.
- Alliance for Safety and Justice: Start with Open Phil's grant writeup, round two of funding, and this blog post.
- Ayni Institute: Start with Open Phil's original writeup. Good Ventures also has pretty much the same thing on their website. See also the July 2016 and December 2016 updates.
- Brooklyn Community Bail Fund: Start with Open Phil and HuffPo.
- Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition: Start with Open Phil and Google.
- Correctional Association of New York: Start with Open Phil. You can cite the Good Ventures page too. Lots of mentions on NYT.
- Essie Justice Group: Start with Open Phil. I don't think there's a lot of information about this group (yet).
- FSU Project on Accountable Justice: See Open Phil's writeup. Not to be confused with the Accountable Justice Project.
- Faith in Texas: Start with Open Phil and Good Ventures. Note that because the phrase "faith in Texas" is common and search results are polluted, you will have to do some clever Googling to get around that.
- Florida Rights Restoration Coalition: Start with Open Phil and Good Ventures. The Google results are decent.
- Human Impact Partners: Organization that does research and advocacy at the intersection of public health and criminal justice reform. Start with Open Phil.
- JustLeadershipUSA: An organization that does advocacy to reduce incarceration. Start with Open Phil's writeup.
- Justice Strategies: A criminal justice reform think tank in the United States. Start with Open Phil's writeup. Finding information might be tricky because "justice strategies" is a common phrase.
- Legal Services for Prisoners with Children: Start with Open Phil's. This report might be useful.
- Mijente: Some coverage here, here, and here. Make sure to check out Open Phil and Good Ventures as well.
- National Association of Community and Restorative Justice: Start with Open Phil. They seem to host conferences, so make sure to mention that. Otherwise, I don't think there's a lot of information about them.
- New Virginia Majority Education Fund: Start with Open Phil, Good Ventures, and maybe their history page (but it's not very good).
- Promise of Justice Initiative: Start with Open Phil and Good Ventures. Also see this article.
- ReFrame Mentorship: Start with Open Phil and Good Ventures. Maybe also this page? There doesn't seem to be a lot about this.
- Texas Fair Defense Project: Start with Open Phil and this BuzzFeed article. Maybe this video?
- The Ordinary People Society: Start with this Open Phil grant writeup. Also check out the pages from the March and December 2016 grants.
- Voice of the Ex-Offender: Start with Open Phil, this page, and this post.
- Youth First Initiative (might be called "Youth First! Initiative" or "Youth First" – part of your job is to figure out what the canonical naming is): Start with Open Phil, this article, and this interview.
- Better Boulder: Start with Open Phil and Good Ventures. Make sure to cover YIMBY 2016. The conference website may have changed dramatically, so look on the Internet Archive for older copies. Ask us if you don't know how to do that. Also check out this article.
- California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund: Start with Open Phil's grant writeup.
- Seattle for Everyone (reserved for Issa)
Torture
- Pigeon torture: $25-40: A torture practice in North Korea. Trigger warning.
Welfare in the United States
- Mickey Leland Memorial Domestic Hunger Relief Act (reserved for Devansh): $50-90, dependong in article quality and length. Maybe even more!
- Food Assistance for Disaster Relief (reserved for Sean): $40-70, depending on article quality and length. Maybe even more!
- Nutrition Assistance Block Grants: $40-70, depending on article quality and length. Maybe even more!
Taxation
- Form 1098 (reserved for Charlie): $30: Want something of comparable quality to Form 1099.
Immigration
- W visa: $125. A proposed new visa, part of various immigration reform proposals, that would be mostly a replacement for the existing H-2 visas. The high pay is mostly because understanding exactly what the proposals would do requires a deeper understanding of existing immigration law, and the politics of changing it. I'm happy to provide guidance to the person who works on this.
- Free Migration Project: Start with Open Phil and maybe this event. There doesn't seem to be a lot of information about this.
- International Refugee Assistance Project: Start with Open Phil's grant writeup. Lots of recent news coverage, so make sure to get that in your page. Open Phil also recently recommended IRAP as a place to donate to in response to recent events, so mention that too, as well as details like "IRAP is one of the plaintiffs, along with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the National Immigration Law Center, and a Yale Law clinic, in a suit that got a temporary injunction against the recent Executive Order targeting green card holders". See also GUEST POST: The International Refugee Assistance Project though keep in mind that that is not a reliable source (though it can be used as a secondary reference to highlight importance of an issue).
- Protect the People: Start with Open Phil's grant writeup. The phrase "protect the people" is rather common, so be careful as you look for information.
- U.S. Association for International Migration (USAIM): Start with Open Phil's grant writeup.
Animal welfare
The following are all organizations that are grantees of the Open Philanthropy Project under "Farm Animal Welfare". As such, your page should include a "Funding" section (or similar) that includes information about the Open Phil grant. See here for an example (note how there is a "Funding" section, and the page incorporates information from Open Phil's grant writeup). A good standard list of sections for an organization is: "History", "Funding", "Publications", "Reception", "See also" (related pages on Wikipedia), "External links" (related pages or further reading outside of Wikipedia), "References".
- Brighter Green: Start with Open Phil, Good Ventures, and Devex.
- Fórum Nacional de Proteção e Defesa Animal: Start with Open Phil. Also watch this page on the ACE website (at the time of this writing, it just says "Status: Considered", but in the future the page might give a full review of the org).
- People for Animals: Start with Open Phil. Note that there are multiple organizations named "People for Animals"! For this page, we mean the one funded by Open Phil, i.e. the one with the website at peopleforanimalsindia.org.
Global catastrophic risks
The following are all organizations that are grantees of the Open Philanthropy Project under "Global Catastrophic Risks". As such, your page should include a "Funding" section (or similar) that includes information about the Open Phil grant. See here for an example (note how there is a "Funding" section, and the page incorporates information from Open Phil's grant writeup). A good standard list of sections for an organization is: "History", "Funding", "Publications", "Reception", "See also" (related pages on Wikipedia), "External links" (related pages or further reading outside of Wikipedia), "References".
- Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment: Start with Open Phil's grant writeup. Note that their website used to be at dcgeoconsortium.org but now it is at ceassessment.org, so make sure to document this switch on the page you write.
- Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative: Start with the Open Phil grant writeup, this Guardian piece, Good Ventures, this post, and maybe this page. I don't know if there's a lot of information about this.
Scientific research
The following are all organizations that are grantees of the Open Philanthropy Project under "Scientific Research". As such, your page should include a "Funding" section (or similar) that includes information about the Open Phil grant. See here for an example (note how there is a "Funding" section, and the page incorporates information from Open Phil's grant writeup). A good standard list of sections for an organization is: "History", "Funding", "Publications", "Reception", "See also" (related pages on Wikipedia), "External links" (related pages or further reading outside of Wikipedia), "References".
- Future of Research: Start with Open Phil's grant writeup and this article. Note that the phrase "future of research" is quite common, so you will have to do some clever Googling (another example) to filter out the irrelevant stuff.
- Rescuing Biomedical Research: Start with Open Phil's grant writeup. Use Google.
Books, orgs, and people
- Chloe Cockburn: $50: She comes from an illustrious family, see e.g. Leslie Cockburn#Personal life for her mother's relatives (which are also her relatives), Olivia Wilde (sister), etc. She is the Program Officer for Criminal Justice Reform at the Open Philanthropy Project, see here, which has overseen $17.7 million in grants in Criminal Justice Reform (See here and here), a lot of it after she joined. Previously, she was at the ACLU, see here and searches for Chloe Cockburn on aclu.org. Also, she has an outdated website but don't use that as a reference (add it in External links).
- Sheldon Richman: $35: There is already a deleted page on him. You would first need to message the admin who deleted the page to retrieve the existing version. Then work on improving/fixing it, and then republish. Probably not good as a first project. Page needs to survive for at least 30 days after recreation to be eligible for payment.
- Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley: Start with Open Phil. Note that ASUC is just the name for the student government at UC Berkeley. Wikipedia already has a small section about it here. So your task will be to expand that into a page, and mention DeCal and Open Phil's grant to support the EA course.
- MIT Synthetic Neurobiology Group: Start with Open Phil's grant writeup. Note that the group is already briefly mentioned here on Wikipedia.
- Project Peanut Butter: Start with this user space version and Open Phil.
Laura and John Arnold Foundation grantees
- Nutrition Science Initative: See Nutrition Science Initiative receives $35.5 million to conduct innovative research studies. It is something pretty controversial, funded by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation (to the tune of ~$40 million). Google around for it or for Gary Taubes to get critiques.
- Public Safety Assessment: See here and here for starters
Atlantic Philanthropies grantees
Please double-check for the existence of the page.
- Global Brain Health Institute: See grant of $119 million and grant of $40 million.
- UCSF Cardiovascular Research Institute: See grant of $75 million
- East Bay Community Foundation: See e.g. Implementation of the Integrated Services in Schools Initiative
- Katharine Howard Foundation: See e.g. here
Miscellaneous
- Timeline of web analytics (reserved for Avi). Exact title and scope not decided. Notes available [here](https://github.com/vipulnaik/working-drafts/blob/master/wikipedia/timeline-of-web-analytics-key-points.mediawiki).
Improvements to existing pages
Health (global and local)
(nothing public; but get in touch with us if you are interested in stuff to do here)
International development
- Inter-American Development Bank (poverty reduction section): $5-20: Section is currently empty. Between $5 and $20 for expanding the section, based on how much you expand it, and the quality of your expansion.