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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.

Table of Contents

Draft completion

Some already existing drafts need a little bit cleanup before they can be published and pushed to the world.

New pages

Research methods: recruitment, surveys, etc.

  • Food frequency questionnaire (reserved for Sergey): $25-40: Explain what it is, historical examples, cautionary notes and best practices, results of common FFQs. You can start from these (not wikiformatted) notes, that somebody who started working on the article created: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Vipul/Food_frequency_questionnaire
  • Marlow-Crowne Social Desirability Scale (reserved for Setsen): $20-30: Already mentioned on the social desirability bias, but probably deserves a separate page, detailing the scale, plus discussing existing research on it and its psychometric properties.
  • American Time Use Survey: $25-40: This is part of the Current Population Survey (is it?) and is conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-use_survey

Global (and national/local) health

  • Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (reserved for Devansh): $25-40 (depending on length and quality): It is already mentioned as a single para in the Wikipedia global alert page, but deserves its own page.
  • Global Programme on AIDS: $30-50 (depending on length and quality) (reserved for Daniel): This was run by WHO and was a predecessor to UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. Also, both the new page and the existing page on UNAIDS should clearly describe the relationship between the programs.
  • Selective primary healthcare: Expand on the section on the topic and make this its own page.
  • Health in All Policy: Approach to policy where considerations about health are incorporated even into sectors that don't directly deal with health.
  • 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).
  • WHO-CHOICE (reserved for Sergey): A program that helps countries choose health system priorities.
  • 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.

Philanthropy

  • Chicago Community Trust: $25-50 (depending on length and quality) (reserved for Avi): Similar article as Silicon Valley Community Foundation, New York Community Trust, etc. Length may vary heavily based on the number and quality of sources you can find.

Politics

(nothing at present, but stay tuned)

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 1023: $50: Form filed by nonprofits to get tax-exempt status. Also reference stuff like NTEE codes, various types of exemption statuses.
  • Form 1098: $30: Want something of comparable quality to Form 1099.
Also, pages on state-level income tax returns. In general, prioritize the most populous states as listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_population#States_and_territories . However, note that some states already have their own taxation pages, so be sure to check for those beforehand. Please discuss with Issa or Vipul to get individual price quotes for individual states.

Immigration

  • W visa (reserved for Grigory): $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.

Books, orgs, and people

  • 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.

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.