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Full name: Issa Rice

Recruiter: Vipul Naik

Wikipedia handle: Riceissa

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/riceissa

Website: http://issarice.com

EA Forum user profile: http://effective-altruism.com/user/riceissa/

Note: The arrangement with Issa is much more complicated because, in addition to creating content on Wikipedia, he does background research, helps with managing editors, etc. However, notably he is not paid for pageviews on Wikipedia pages he writes.

Table of Contents

Impact

Pageviews

Wikipedia Views links for tracking total pageviews of pages created:

Anecdotal

  • Howie Lempel (who works for the Open Philanthropy Project) was impressed with the page on the Open Philanthropy Project. He said that in some ways, the page does a better job of conveying what the Open Philanthropy Project has accomplished so far than the website (with the caveat that both the Wikipedia page and the website only includes publicly available information, and therefore both are limited in accuracy and comprehensiveness).
  • Scott Weathers liked the page on the timeline of global health
  • Amy Zhang's high school teacher shared the timeline of global health with a UW professor. The timeline of global health was initially created by Issa and later improved upon by Amy.
  • People at one of the orgs whose page Issa created offered to buy him drinks if he ever visited their location (note that they did not inappropriately influence the content of the page, beyond pointing to existing references and correcting errors backed by verifiable citations).

Work and other compensation in 2016

Summary

Total money earned by doing work (taxable as income for 2016): $4931.70

Reimbursement due (not taxable as income for 2016): $185.53

Payment made: $5044 (+ $4000 pending)

Net payment due: $73.23 (excluding pending payment)

Completed pages

Total so far: $1823

  • Green Card Test: $25. Published January 5, 2016.
  • Triplebyte: $25 for initial work, $6 for additional later work and publication: $31. Initial work in January 2016, publication later in the year.
  • Form 1099: $50. Published January 11, 2016.
  • Form 1099-MISC: $100. Published January 21, 2016.
  • Form W-9: $50. Published January 23, 2016.
  • Form 1096: $25. Published January 25, 2016.
  • Form W-2: $100. Published January 28, 2016.
  • Form 990: $100. Published February 3, 2016.
  • Form I-140: $150, plus $18 for other miscellaneous improvements. Published March 4, 2016.
  • Open Philanthropy Project: $100. Published March 22, 2016.
  • Timeline of global health: $170 + $20 completion bonus
  • Timeline of deworming: $115. Published April 24, 2016.
  • Timeline of nonprofit evaluation: $105. Published April 30, 2016.
  • 3 by 5 Initiative: $30. Published May 2, 2016.
  • Innovative Vector Control Consortium: $35. Published May 4, 2016.
  • The State of the World's Children: $30. Published May 4, 2016.
  • Child survival revolution: $101. Published May 11, 2016.
  • Participatory poverty assessment: $63. Published May 17, 2016.
  • Voices of the Poor: $39. Published May 18, 2016.
  • International Decision Support Initiative: $39. Published June 7, 2016.
  • Amanda Glassman: $32. Published June 8, 2016.
  • Health systems strengthening: $43. Published June 17, 2016.
  • Professional consensus of economics: $67. Published July 10, 2016.
  • Priority-setting in global health: $155. Published July 27, 2016.
  • Initiative on Global Markets: $30. Published October 5, 2016.
Form 1040, though published on January 1, 2016 is counted in 2015 since the bulk of the work for it was carried out in 2015.

Other payments, including improvements to existing pages and non-Wikipedia content creation work

Total so far: $1390

  • stats.grok.se Wikimedia API fix: $80
  • Other misc pay for consulting etc.: $25
  • Adding years to DCP page: $6
  • Retrieval of Animal Charity Evaluators: $20
  • Wasted effort on timeline of mental health, after discovering that a similar page on timeline of psychiatry exists: $10
  • Monthly update of Open Phil and Good Ventures grant lists (end of April): $50
  • Disease Control Priorities Project reference cleanup, page restructuring, more info on specific reports: $20 (more once DCP1 is expanded)
  • Wikipedia usage survey construction and associated research: $70
  • Monthly update of Open Phil and Good Ventures grant lists (end of May): $50
  • Sprucing up of GiveWell top charity pages: $55 ($25 each for AMF and GiveDirectly, another $5 for other general cleanup)
  • Work on review of GiveWell's finances and expenses: $100 (work still ongoing)
  • Tax issues resolution: $100 (final submission not done yet but this will be the total pay)
  • Monthly update of Open Phil and Good Ventures lists (end of June): $27
  • Wikipedia usage survey writeup: $110
  • Monthly update of Open Phil and Good Ventures lists (end of July): $45 (6 new grants + 2 delayed grants)
  • Privacy Impact Assessment cleanup: $5
  • GiveWell board meeting EA Forum article (http://effective-altruism.com/ea/10l/june_2016_givewell_board_meeting/): $100. Completed August 17, 2016.
  • Creation of a model for computing the total value of a Wikipedia pageview. Ongoing work. Payment of $40 for work done as of August 29, 2016.
  • Addition of grants made table to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation English Wikipedia page: $50. Completed August 29, 2016.
  • Monthly update of Open Phil and Good Ventures lists (end of August): $55 ($45 for adding 8 new grants in total, and $10 for one-time extra work to deal with changes in the format). Completed August 31, 2016.
  • More addition of grants data to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation English Wikipedia page: $40. Completed September 1, 2016.
  • Clarifications to grants data for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation English Wikipedia page: $5. Completed September 2, 2016.
  • Grants data added for the Hewlett Foundation Wikipedia page: $40. Completed September 2, 2016.
  • Grants data added for the Department for International Development page: $30. Completed September 3, 2016.
  • Grants table added for the World Bank: $30. Completed September 4, 2016.
  • Grants table added for the United Nations Development Programme: $30. Completed September 4, 2016.
  • Some investigation into the French Development Agency IATI grants; we ultimately decided not to publish anything: $10. Completed September 5, 2016.
  • Grants table added for the GAVI Alliance: $15. Completed September 6, 2016.
  • Monthly update of Open Phil and GV grants database: $50 (for adding 8 new grants to Open Phil and 12 new grants on Good Ventures). Completed September 29, 2016.
  • Sprucing up of Google Consumer Surveys: $32. Completed September 30, 2016.
  • Improving GiveWell staff growth page to now separately cover Open Phil and GiveWell staff: $10. Completed October 1, 2016.
  • Adding plotting code and correlation matrix logic for Wikipedia Views: $80. Completed October 13, 2016. Working code available at https://gist.github.com/riceissa/8726e6a90d4a7634f3dd79cc1fdb63d5 (gist not publicly accessible)

Touch payments

Total: $310

Commission payments

List updated September 30, 2016. May not be kept up-to-date continuously.

Total: $168.70

  • Adrian Ulloa: Commission of 10% on $185 = $18.50
  • Amy Zhang: Commission of 15% on $80 = $12
  • Avi Glozman: Commission of 10% on $416 = $41.60
  • Chris Kunin: Commission of 10% on $227 = $22.70
  • Eddy Su: Commission of 10% on $71 = $7.10
  • Michael Royzen: Commission of 10% on $50 = $5
  • Sean Yu: Commission of 10% on $55 = $5.50
  • Thomas Foster: Commission of 10% on $105 = $10.50
  • Devansh Dwivedy: Commission of 10% on $80 = $8
  • Charlie Corner: Commission of 15% on $152 = $22.80
  • Sergey Yegorov: Commission of 10% on $150 = $15

Monthly payments

Total so far: $1240

  • May: $300
  • June: $250
  • July: $250
  • August: $190
  • September: $250

Reimbursement payments

Total so far: $185.53

  • $80 for PayPal payment to Amy
  • $105.53 for PayPal payment to Adrian

Payment schedule

Total payment received for 2016: $5044 (+ $4000 pending)

  • PayPal payments made starting January and till April 22, 2016: $1044
  • Check dated May 14, 2016, successfully deposited and debited May 23, 2016: $4000
  • Check dated and sent October 1, 2016: $4000

Work in 2015

Unfortunately we don't have a record of payment per page for 2015. However, we do have a list of pages created. Outside of Wikipedia pages, the list may not be complete.

Completed pages

  • Timeline of online dating services: We're not sure if money was paid for this, but including it to be on the safe side
  • Form 1040: $400. Although the work was done in 2015, the article was improved and published on January 1, 2016.

Other payments, including improvements to existing pages and non-Wikipedia content creation work

Commissions

Payment of 10% of Alex K. Chen's money from working on Wikipedia.