This page shows completed work that I have done. Most of the data is from Vipul Naik’s contract work portal. I have also included other tasks not part of contract work. There are other tasks that are not considered “complete” but which have significant work done on them; these are not included. I have also not included a lot of schoolwork and minor tasks.
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Showing 159 tasks.
| Task receptacle | Venue | Completion date | Payment | Topic | Format | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Representativeness of events in timelines | Timelines wiki | 2017-08-30 | 0.0 | Content creation | Prose | – |
| Open Philanthropy Predictions | PredictionBook | 2017-08-29 | 74.0 | Philanthropy | Predictions | Payment of $30 base and $44 for predictions, with $40 for two-way predictions and $4 for more complex predictions. See also the GitHub repository link for more background |
| Domain names in timelines | Timelines wiki | 2017-08-25 | 0.0 | Content creation | Prose | – |
| Timeline of Niskanen Center | Timelines wiki | 2017-08-16 | 115.0 | United States politics/libertarianism/think tanks | Timeline | Payment for page as of link (2017-08-17 01:10 UTC) |
| mediawiki.vim | GitHub | 2017-08-13 | 0.0 | Technology | Code | As I began writing a lot of Wikipedia pages, I started to want a good filetype plugin. Not being able to find one I liked, I wrote my own. Development began on 2016-08-17 and I slowly added features as needed. |
| Donations list website | Donations list website | 2017-08-12 | 325.0 | Philanthropy/tabular presentation | Code | See commits by riceissa from 2017-08-04 to 2017-08-12. Work was for 6.5 working days, spanning 8.5 calendar days |
| Donation amounts by disclosures and year | Donations list website | 2017-08-12 | 75.0 | Philanthropy/Open Philanthropy Project | Table | Schema design, data entry, and coding to render tables in the Donations list website for Open Philanthropy Project grant-related relationship disclosures data |
| Sebastian Sanchez contract work details | None | 2017-08-05 | 75.0 | Global health | Communication with worker | Since no commission structure was used for Sebastian, but Issa did help with onboarding Sebastian and continues to provide technical assistance, a one-time payment of 15% on the first $500 was determined |
| Linting | Vim Tips Wiki | 2017-08-02 | 0.0 | Technology | Prose | – |
| Timeline of Center for Applied Rationality | Timelines wiki | 2017-07-28 | 50.0 | Rationality improvement | Timeline | Payment for page as of link (2017-07-28 19:27 UTC). See the “What the timeline is still missing” section for further plans for the timeline |
| Donee deduplication, donor similarity, notes column expansion | Donations list website | 2017-07-22 | 300.0 | Graphs and data cleaning | Code | See the branches link link and link for the relevant commits. Some commits done directly in master. Worked for about 5.5 working days (starting July 15, 2017) |
| Timeline of Machine Intelligence Research Institute | Timelines wiki | 2017-07-15 | 250.0 | AI risk | Timeline | Payment for page as of link (2017-07-15 19:39 UTC), 74,234 bytes. See the External links section for shares of the page on Facebook and LessWrong. Subsequent expansion by Vipul not included in pay, except to the extent it involving consulting with Issa. Plans for future expansion of timeline that would complete TODOs; when this expansion occurs it will be entered as a Wiki page update in the pay |
| Michael Vassar | Wikiquote | 2017-07-14 | 0.0 | Rationality improvement | Prose | I kept hearing people talk about Michael Vassar, and was frustrated that there was no canonical place to look at quotes about him. |
| Graph legend | Wikipedia Views | 2017-07-07 | 40.0 | Graphs | Code | Update to graph.py utility at link to show legends optionally at the bottom of graphs. Also incorporated by Vipul Naik in the code in two other repositories: link and link – see also link for a bug fix to the push |
| Comma sorting | Donations list website | 2017-06-18 | 40.0 | Donations | Code | Fixed sorting tool we use in JavaScript so that it can sort tables while also using comma separation for greater ease of reading numbers. The commits were all made in link and link was the last commit |
| N/A | None | 2017-06-17 | 20.0 | Miscellaneous | Total payment for reaching out to people with relevant questions, suggestions, and comments | |
| Timeline of electricity adoption | Timelines wiki | 2017-06-08 | 125.0 | Infrastructure/electricity | Timeline | Payment for page as of link (2017-06-09 05:41 UTC, 20303 bytes). Pay does not cover all reading/research work that led up to the timeline; compensation for that is covered in the stipend and also in pay for future expansion of the article that incorporates all the extra knowledge acquired |
| Timeline of Carl Shulman publications | Timelines wiki | 2017-06-05 | 0.0 | Rationality improvement | Timeline | Vipul Naik gave me the idea and provided funding through a stipend but no specific task payment |
| Unused keys | Vim Tips Wiki | 2017-05-29 | 0.0 | Technology | Table | I got frustrated at being unable to quickly tell whether a key was safe to map in Vim. |
| Timeline of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Timelines wiki | 2017-05-11 | 120.0 | Philanthropy/foundations/global health | Timeline | Payment for page as of link (2017-05-11 19:21 UTC). Includes 78 references, has data 2011 onward, and no big picture |
| Timeline of Against Malaria Foundation | Timelines wiki | 2017-04-27 | 155.0 | Global health/malaria/philanthropy/GiveWell top charities | Timeline | Payment for page as of link (2017-04-28 03:02 UTC). Includes timeline with 128 references, big picture, and evolution of cost-per-life-saved estimates (imported from Wikipedia, where Issa and Vipul worked on the table) |
| Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation | Donations list website | 2017-04-23 | 230.0 | Foundation grants | Database rows | Processed Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grants from IATI at link to generate data for insertion in donations database. Code available at link – run the commands there and then pass the generated SQL to the donations database |
| LessWrong analytics (February 2009 to January 2017) | LessWrong | 2017-04-16 | 80.0 | Web analytics | Prose | Full Gist available at link includes data, source code, and post markdown |
| N/A | None | 2017-04-12 | 10.0 | Miscellaneous | Total payment for reaching out to people with relevant questions, suggestions, and comments | |
| Open Philanthropy Project non-grant funding | Personal website | 2017-04-02 | 0.0 | Philanthropy/Open Philanthropy Project | Prose | Decided on a whim to collect data |
| Timeline of TempleOS | Timelines wiki | 2017-03-24 | 0.0 | Technology | Timeline | I have been fascinated by Terry A. Davis since discovering him on /g/. I wrote the timeline after getting frustrated at being unable to keep his life story straight in my head. |
| Laura and John Arnold Foundation | Donations list website | 2017-03-22 | 60.0 | Foundation grants | Database rows | Processed Arnold Foundation grants to generate data for insertion in donations database. Code available at link and insertion code can be pasted from link in MySQL |
| hits-based giving project | None | 2017-03-22 | 570.0 | Philanthropy/history of philanthropy | Notes | Initial work for a project announced by Peter Hurford at link after some modification and discussion with Peter. Due to data availability constraints, the project could not be completed, so the pay is for 38 hours of initial work at $15/hour |
| Timelines wiki | Timelines wiki | 2017-03-20 | 200.0 | Timeline content | Timeline | Migrated a bunch of timelines from Wikipedia to the new Timelines wiki |
| Understanding different editing patterns on Wikipedia | None | 2017-03-11 | 100.0 | Wikipedia | Private communication + code | Added functionality to wikidossier to compare multiple users and do multiple namespaces for a single user. The interface is not yet public. However, you can visit link for the underlying code. The last commit covered by this pay is link (2017-03-11) |
| Timeline of Reddit | Wikipedia | 2017-03-03 | 29.0 | Technology/company | Timeline | Significant updates to and revamp/cleanup of timeline. Diff URL: link taking page from 21,870 bytes to 36,244 bytes. Note that baseline 10 dollars was not included as expansion was not completed prior to shutdown of contract work |
| Understanding different editing patterns on Wikipedia | None | 2017-03-03 | 200.0 | Wikipedia | Private communication + code | Research produced profiles of different kinds of Wikipedia editors, and an interface to generate a report on the trajectory of Wikipedia editor. The interface is not yet public. However, you can visit link for the underlying code |
| Timeline of GitHub | Wikipedia | 2017-03-01 | 100.0 | Technology/company | Timeline | Significant updates to and revamp/cleanup of timeline. Diff URL: link taking page from 10,400 bytes to 58,682 bytes |
| Unlicense | Wikipedia | 2017-02-28 | 0.0 | Technology | Prose | I think I decided on a whim to create the page. Personally I prefer CC0 as a public domain license. |
| Open Philanthropy Project,Good Ventures link, link | Wikipedia | 2017-02-26 | 50.0 | Philanthropy/Grants | Table | February end grants update: 13 grants to Open Phil, 9 grants to Good Ventures; 21 distinct grants, so pay = 50 |
| ICWATCH | Wikipedia | 2017-02-26 | 0.0 | Technology | Prose | I discovered ICWATCH while adding events to Timeline of LinkedIn link , specifically from a TechCrunch article link |
| fugitive.vim | Wikipedia | 2017-02-25 | 0.0 | Technology | Prose | – |
| Timeline of LinkedIn | Wikipedia | 2017-02-22 | 38.0 | Technology/company | Timeline | Periodic updates to timeline; added events since last updates to timeline and also filled and improved some old events. Diff URL: link taking page from 20,318 bytes to 34,900 bytes |
| Timeline of Instagram | Wikipedia | 2017-02-22 | 22.0 | Technology/company | Timeline | Periodic updates to timeline; added events since last updates to timeline and also filled and improved some old events. Diff URL: link taking page from 19,714 bytes to 25,821 bytes |
| Timeline of Airbnb | Wikipedia | 2017-02-21 | 23.0 | Technology/company | Timeline | Periodic updates to timeline; added events since last updates to timeline and also filled and improved some old events. Diff URL: link taking page from 36,871 bytes to 43,777 bytes |
| Timeline of Twitter | Wikipedia | 2017-02-21 | 28.0 | Technology/company | Timeline | Periodic updates to timeline; added events since last updates to timeline and also filled and improved some old events. Diff URL: link taking page from 52,761 bytes to 62,029 bytes |
| Timeline of Pinterest | Wikipedia | 2017-02-20 | 30.0 | Technology/company | Timeline | Periodic updates to timeline; added events since last updates to timeline and also filled and improved some old events. Diff URL: link taking page from 38,396 bytes to 48,468 bytes |
| Timeline of Facebook | Wikipedia | 2017-02-18 | 25.0 | Technology/company | Timeline | Periodic updates to timeline; added events since last updates to timeline and also filled and improved some old events. Diff URL: link taking page from 118,897 bytes to 126,146 bytes |
| Timeline of Snapchat | Wikipedia | 2017-02-17 | 28.0 | Technology/company | Timeline | Periodic updates to timeline; added events since last updates to timeline and also filled and improved some old events. Diff URL: link taking page from 48,021 bytes to 57,473 bytes |
| Laura and John Arnold Foundation | Wikipedia | 2017-02-11 | 220.0 | Philanthropy/Grants | Table | Based on GitHub repository link and originally attempted to save on the main page link but reverted by Jytdog, see link so saved a search engine-indexable version in userspace |
| Form 990 | Wikipedia | 2017-02-10 | 3.0 | United States taxation/Philanthropy/Nonprofit evaluation | Prose | Added launch of Form 990 Decoder by Charity Navigator |
| New article pool | Contract work for Vipul Naik | 2017-02-10 | 50.0 | Contract work/worker management | Prose | Added list of Open Phil grantees. The payment also takes into account past pull requests. See link for a list |
| Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security | Wikipedia | 2017-02-09 | 37.0 | Biosecurity | Prose | There was an existing page for “UPMC Center for Health Security” (the previous name for the org) but the page was entirely rewritten and significantly expanded, so is being treated as a new page creation |
| Global Burden of Disease Study | Wikipedia | 2017-02-07 | 75.0 | Global health | Prose | There was an existing confused page called “Global burden of disease” but this was essentially rewritten from scratch |
| Iodine Global Network | Wikipedia | 2017-02-07 | 14.0 | Global health/nutrition/iodine | Prose | Moved from old location (for old name, International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders) to new one, and added new GiveWell reviews and recommendations |
| N/A | None | 2017-02-04 | 20.0 | Miscellaneous | Total payment for reaching out to people with relevant questions, suggestions, and comments | |
| Open Philanthropy Project,Good Ventures link, link | Wikipedia | 2017-01-29 | 50.0 | Philanthropy/Grants | Table | January end grants update: 6 grants to Open Phil, 13 grants to Good Ventures, so pay = 50 |
| Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation | Wikipedia | 2017-01-28 | 14.0 | Global health | Prose | Added reception section and some minor reference fixes |
| Timeline of global health | Wikipedia | 2017-01-26 | 20.0 | Global health | Timeline | Fixed 11 dead links and added three new events (first two cholera pandemics, typhus epidemic) |
| Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance | Wikipedia | 2017-01-25 | 7.0 | Global health | Prose | Page improvements including clarifying history of name changes and adding references |
| PHP/MySQL: Fixing utf8 text corrupted by implicit mysqli::set_charset(latin1) connection | Wikipedia Views | 2017-01-25 | 20.0 | Character encoding issues | Private communication | Investigated character encoding issue, discovered relevant Stack Overflow question |
| N/A | None | 2017-01-19 | 20.0 | Miscellaneous | Total payment for reaching out to people with relevant questions, suggestions, and comments | |
| Essay contest: general considerations for evaluating small-scale giving opportunities ($300 for winning submission) | Effective Altruism Forum | 2017-01-19 | 50.0 | Effective altruism/contest/small-scale giving | Prose | Announced contest organized by Peter Hurford, Vipul Naik, and Issa Rice. Remaining $50 pay to be given after first serious submission |
| Donations | Donations list website | 2017-01-08 | 155.0 | Effective altruism/donation history | Structured data | Designed SQL tables and provided initial set of rows to insert |
| Timeline of digital preservation | Wikipedia | 2017-01-04 | 90.0 | Digital preservation | Timeline | There is still more to port over from link and additional payment will be added when the porting is complete |
| Researcher profiles | None | 2016-12-31 | 70.0 | Research strategy | Prose | Officially stopped project 2017-01-01 but part paid by Vipul was finished by 2016-12-31 |
| Open Philanthropy Project,Good Ventures link, link | Wikipedia | 2016-12-28 | 40.0 | Philanthropy/Grants | Table | December end grants update: 7 grants to Open Phil, 0 grants to Good Ventures, so pay = 5 * ( 1 + 7) = 40 |
| Wikipedia usage survey results | LessWrong | 2016-12-24 | 55.0 | Wikipedia | Prose with tables | Reviewed changes by Vipul, fixed a lot of rendering issues, and provided frank feedback on post |
| N/A | None | 2016-12-12 | 320.0 | Miscellaneous | Total payment for reaching out to people with relevant questions, suggestions, and comments | |
| Optimize Your Amazon S3 Costs | wikiHow | 2016-12-03 | 170.0 | Amazon Web Services | Graphs and code | Investigated comparison of different cost plans by Amazon and when each one is optimal |
| Open Philanthropy Project,Good Ventures link, link | Wikipedia | 2016-11-30 | 50.0 | Philanthropy/Grants | Table | November end grants update: 4 grants to Open Phil (plus some manual work), 8 grants to Good Ventures, but 9 or more distinct grants, so pay ≥ 5 * 9 + 5, and also pay ≤ 50, so 50 |
| GiveWell,GiveWell top charities (various pages) | Wikipedia | 2016-11-30 | 100.0 | Philanthropy/GiveWell/top charities | Prose with tables | – |
| Timeline of Wikimedia analytics | Wikimedia meta | 2016-11-30 | 10.0 | Wikipedia | Timeline | Timeline events on starting dates for availability of search metrics |
| Citewebgen | GitHub | 2016-11-30 | 0.0 | Technology | Code | As I began writing a lot of Wikipedia pages, I wanted a quick way to cite web pages. Not being satisfied with existing scripts, I wrote my own. |
| Backups | None | 2016-11-28 | 100.0 | Wikipedia/Backup | Data dump | Setup for periodic backup of all important Wikipedia content for easy recoverability |
| Help pages | Wikipedia Views | 2016-11-21 | 25.0 | Wikipedia | Data dump | List of help pages in all language Wikipedias |
| Special pages | Wikipedia Views | 2016-11-20 | 40.0 | Wikipedia | Data dump | List of special pages in all language Wikipedias |
| distrib.py | Wikipedia Views | 2016-11-19 | 40.0 | Wikipedia | Code | Code to show bar or line plot for distribution of Wikipedia pageviews |
| N/A | None | 2016-11-15 | 80.0 | United States migration/Survey research | Code and structured data | Investigation into correlation between estimates of foreign-born and unauthorized population and state-level values of the population |
| Wikipedia Clickstream | Wikipedia Views | 2016-11-04 | 130.0 | Wikipedia | Code | Processing of Wikipedia clickstream data set for use in Wikipedia Views. Successfully integrated in Wikipedia Views 2016-11-25 |
| Working with long lines | Vim Tips Wiki | 2016-11-04 | 0.0 | Technology | Prose | – |
| Open Philanthropy Project,Good Ventures link, link | Wikipedia | 2016-10-27 | 50.0 | Philanthropy/Grants | Table | October end grants update: max 50; 18 grants to Open Phil, 11 grants to Good Ventures |
| Hiroshi Nakajima | Wikipedia | 2016-10-20 | 35.0 | Global health/influential people | Prose | The project was motivated by a Facebook post by Howie Lempel |
| Scientific Charity Movement | Wikipedia | 2016-10-14 | 20.0 | Philanthropy/philosophy | Prose | Cleaned up and improved the page |
| graph.py link, link | Wikipedia Views | 2016-10-13 | 80.0 | Graphing | Code | Add graphing capabilities to Wikipedia Views |
| Initiative on Global Markets | Wikipedia | 2016-10-05 | 30.0 | Economics | Prose | – |
| Tag entries in different languages | Wikipedia Views | 2016-10-04 | 150.0 | Wikipedia Views | Coding with data output | Wrote code to translate tags en masse to new languages. Code still exists, plan is now to incorporate into Wikipedia Views itself to avoid need to run separate code |
| Revisiting the great decline in Wikipedia pageviews | LessWrong | 2016-10-03 | 925.0 | Wikipedia | Prose with tables and charts and code | Started on it at ~$100/day pay, slowed down, then we realized a lot more toolkit improvements are needed before we can push out the post |
| GiveWell staff growth | Personal website | 2016-10-01 | 10.0 | Philanthropy/GiveWell/evaluation | Prose with tables | Updated page to reflect separation of GiveWell and Open Phil staff listings |
| Google Surveys | Wikipedia | 2016-09-30 | 32.0 | Survey tools | Prose with diagram | Expanded page, added references, explained and clarified model with diagram |
| Open Philanthropy Project,Good Ventures link, link | Wikipedia | 2016-09-29 | 50.0 | Philanthropy/Grants | Table | September end grants update: max 50; 8 grants to Open Phil, 12 grants to Good Ventures |
| Form 1040 | Wikipedia | 2016-09-17 | 20.0 | United States taxation | Prose | Payment for part of a planned series of edits that was not fully completed (total promised pay was $40; the partial edits are at link and link (latter finishes on September 17, 2016) |
| GAVI Alliance | Wikipedia | 2016-09-06 | 15.0 | Philanthropy/Grants/IATI | Table | – |
| French Development Agency | Wikipedia | 2016-09-05 | 10.0 | Philanthropy/Grants/IATI | Table | We decided not to publish as there was too little meaningful data |
| World Bank | Wikipedia | 2016-09-04 | 30.0 | Philanthropy/Grants/IATI | Table | – |
| United Nations Development Programme | Wikipedia | 2016-09-04 | 30.0 | Philanthropy/Grants/IATI | Table | – |
| Department for International Development | Wikipedia | 2016-09-03 | 30.0 | Philanthropy/Grants/IATI | Table | – |
| Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Wikipedia | 2016-09-02 | 5.0 | Philanthropy/Grants/IATI | Table | IATI Gates Round 3: Clarifications |
| Hewlett Foundation | Wikipedia | 2016-09-02 | 40.0 | Philanthropy/Grants/IATI | Table | – |
| Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Wikipedia | 2016-09-01 | 40.0 | Philanthropy/Grants/IATI | Table | IATI Gates Round 2 |
| Open Philanthropy Project,Good Ventures link, link | Wikipedia | 2016-08-31 | 55.0 | Philanthropy/Grants | Table | August end grants update: 45 for 8 new grants and 10 for one-time extra work to deal with format changes |
| Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Wikipedia | 2016-08-29 | 50.0 | Philanthropy/Grants/IATI | Table | IATI Gates Round 1 |
| Model for estimating the value of a Wikipedia page | None | 2016-08-29 | 40.0 | Wikipedia/Contract work | Code | Initial work piloted on a small subset of timelines, gives an estimate of the total money due based on attributes of the timeline |
| June 2016 GiveWell board meeting | Effective Altruism Forum | 2016-08-17 | 100.0 | Philanthropy/GiveWell/evaluation | Prose/transcript | – |
| Privacy Impact Assessment | Wikipedia | 2016-08-07 | 5.0 | Government bureaucracy jargon | Prose | – |
| Open Philanthropy Project,Good Ventures link, link | Wikipedia | 2016-07-29 | 45.0 | Philanthropy/Grants | Table | July end grants update: 6 new grants + 2 delayed grants |
| Priority-setting in global health | Wikipedia | 2016-07-27 | 155.0 | Health systems/Global health | Prose | – |
| Against Malaria Foundation | Wikipedia | 2016-07-16 | 10.0 | Philanthropy/GiveWell top charities | Prose | Some tweaks/updates to AMF page based on corrections noted in email from Rob Mather. Not completed fully, so payment is based on work done. See link for diff |
| Wikipedia usage survey results | LessWrong | 2016-07-14 | 110.0 | Wikipedia | Prose with tables | Finished writing up findings from survey conducted in late May |
| Professional consensus of economics | Wikipedia | 2016-07-10 | 67.0 | Economics | Prose | – |
| Open Philanthropy Project,Good Ventures link, link | Wikipedia | 2016-07-01 | 27.0 | Philanthropy/Grants | Table | June end grants update |
| Resolving issues with the IRS | Personal website | 2016-07-01 | 100.0 | United States taxation/personal experience | Prose/Autobiography | – |
| Disease Control Priorities Project | Wikipedia | 2016-06-25 | 20.0 | Global health | Prose | Significant page restructuring, more info on specific reports |
| GiveWell finances and other stuff review link, link | Personal website | 2016-06-25 | 100.0 | Philanthropy/GiveWell/evaluation | Prose, tables, and charts | – |
| Against Malaria Foundation, GiveDirectly, and other GiveWell top charities link, link, others | Wikipedia | 2016-06-24 | 55.0 | Philanthropy/GiveWell/top charities | Prose | 25 each for AMF and GiveDirectly, 5 for others |
| Health systems strengthening | Wikipedia | 2016-06-17 | 43.0 | Health systems/Global health | Prose | – |
| Amanda Glassman | Wikipedia | 2016-06-08 | 32.0 | Global health/influential people | Prose | – |
| International Decision Support Initiative | Wikipedia | 2016-06-07 | 39.0 | Global health/organizations | Prose | – |
| Triplebyte | Wikipedia | 2016-06-04 | 31.0 | Technology/company | Prose | 25 for initial work in January. 6 for later work in June and publication. Later deleted through AfD, userspace version survives |
| Open Philanthropy Project,Good Ventures link, link | Wikipedia | 2016-06-04 | 50.0 | Philanthropy/Grants | Table | May end grants update |
| Wikipedia usage survey | LessWrong | 2016-05-31 | 70.0 | Wikipedia | Survey | Design of survey, buying responses, and preliminary analysis |
| Voices of the Poor | Wikipedia | 2016-05-18 | 39.0 | Poverty studies | Prose | – |
| Participatory poverty assessment | Wikipedia | 2016-05-17 | 63.0 | Poverty studies | Prose | – |
| Child survival revolution | Wikipedia | 2016-05-11 | 101.0 | Global health/trends | Prose | – |
| Innovative Vector Control Consortium | Wikipedia | 2016-05-04 | 35.0 | Global health/organizations | Prose | – |
| The State of the World's Children | Wikipedia | 2016-05-04 | 30.0 | Global health/events | Prose | – |
| 3 by 5 Initiative | Wikipedia | 2016-05-02 | 30.0 | Global health/organizations | Prose | – |
| Timeline of nonprofit evaluation | Wikipedia | 2016-04-30 | 105.0 | Philanthropy/Nonprofit evaluation | Timeline | – |
| Open Philanthropy Project,Good Ventures link, link | Wikipedia | 2016-04-30 | 50.0 | Philanthropy/Grants | Table | April end grants update |
| Timeline of mental health | Wikipedia | 2016-04-26 | 10.0 | Global health/diseases/mental health | Timeline | Initial research into timeline of mental health; scrapped on seeing an existing timeline of psychiatry |
| Timeline of deworming | Wikipedia | 2016-04-24 | 115.0 | Global health/diseases | Timeline | – |
| N/A | None | 2016-04-16 | 25.0 | N/A | N/A | – |
| Timeline of global health | Wikipedia | 2016-04-14 | 190.0 | Global health | Timeline | 170 for work + 20 completion bonus |
| Disease Control Priorities Project | Wikipedia | 2016-04-13 | 6.0 | Global health | Prose | Add years |
| Open Philanthropy Project | Wikipedia | 2016-03-22 | 100.0 | Philanthropy/Foundations | Prose | – |
| Animal Charity Evaluators | Wikipedia | 2016-03-18 | 20.0 | Animal welfare/nonprofit evaluation/Animal Charity Evaluators | Communication | Retrieved deleted page from admin and userfied it |
| Form I-140 | Wikipedia | 2016-03-04 | 168.0 | United States migration | Prose | 150 for original, 18 for miscellaneous improvements |
| Form 990 | Wikipedia | 2016-02-03 | 100.0 | United States taxation/Philanthropy/Nonprofit evaluation | Prose | – |
| pageviewQueries.inc | Wikipedia Views | 2016-01-31 | 80.0 | API integration | Code | Add ability to query Wikimedia API for pageviews |
| Form W-2 | Wikipedia | 2016-01-28 | 100.0 | United States taxation | Prose | – |
| Form 1096 | Wikipedia | 2016-01-25 | 25.0 | United States taxation | Prose | – |
| Form W-9 | Wikipedia | 2016-01-23 | 50.0 | United States taxation | Prose | – |
| Form 1099-MISC | Wikipedia | 2016-01-21 | 100.0 | United States taxation | Prose | – |
| N/A | None | 2016-01-18 | 150.0 | United States taxation | Communication with Vipul | Investigated Form 1099 filing requirements. It later turned out that Form 1099 is not required since Vipul is not operating as an organization. |
| Form 1099 | Wikipedia | 2016-01-11 | 50.0 | United States taxation | Prose | – |
| Green Card Test | Wikipedia | 2016-01-05 | 25.0 | United States taxation/United States migration | Prose | – |
| Form 1040 | Wikipedia | 2015-12-31 | 400.0 | United States taxation | Prose | Although mostly completed by 2015-12-31, the article was published to main space on 2016-01-01. Payment, however, is considered to be for the 2015 tax year. |
| Nonidentity problem | Wikipedia | 2015-12-18 | 0.0 | Population ethics | Prose | – |
| Quantcast data tabulation | None | 2015-11-22 | 50.0 | Web analytics/Quantcast | Spreadsheet | Tabulated a bunch of data related to website Quantcast data. Some of this was later used in wikiHow articles by Vipul such as link |
| Criticism of effective altruism | Effective Altruism Wiki | 2015-11-20 | 0.0 | Philanthropy | Prose | I did not create the page but began adding criticisms I encountered. Unfortunately the wiki seems to be gone. |
| An overview of Y Combinator's non-profit program | Effective Altruism Forum | 2015-11-07 | 250.0 | Philanthropy/nonprofit evaluation/effective altruism | Prose | – |
| Person-affecting view | Wikipedia | 2015-10-24 | 0.0 | Population ethics | Prose | – |
| Timeline of online dating services | Wikipedia | 2015-10-20 | 0.0 | Technology | Prose | Originally created on the Cause Prioritization Wiki as Timeline of technology-assisted dating services link but later moved to Wikipedia |
| Archive Websites on Unix Like Systems | wikiHow | 2015-09-22 | 300.0 | Digital preservation | Prose/How-to | – |
| Deleted pages of gwern.net | Personal website | 2015-09-17 | 0.0 | Digital preservation | Prose | I wanted to conveniently see gwern’s deleted pages in compiled form. |
| N/A | None | 2015-08-08 | 37.0 | No record | Communication with Vipul | – |
| N/A | None | 2015-08-08 | 20.0 | Spam filtering | Communication with Vipul | Helped Vipul set up spam filters for Google Analytics accounts |
| N/A | None | 2015-08-05 | 42.0 | No record | Communication with Vipul | – |
| Using Reddit | Cognito Mentoring Information Wiki | 2015-07-30 | 0.0 | Technology | Prose | Vipul Naik provided me with an account on the wiki. I don’t remember the details of how the idea for creating the page came about. I don’t believe I was paid. |
| N/A | None | 2015-04-19 | 98.0 | No record | No record | – |
| A Plus (aplus.com) | Wikipedia | 2015-04-05 | 20.0 | Media company | Prose | First Wikipedia article experience. Originally intended to create article, but it got created while this was in draft, so merged work in. |
| N/A | None | 2015-03-30 | 100.0 | Schooling/education | Communication with Vipul | Consulting on student notes websites |
| Cause Prioritization Wiki | Cause Prioritization Wiki | 2014-11-28 | 0.0 | Philanthropy | Prose | Vipul Naik convinced me to create the website. The Git repository link has its initial commit on this day, and the domain was registered on this day link |
| 効果的利他主義 | Wikipedia | 2014-10-13 | 0.0 | Philanthropy | Prose | A partial translation of the English effective altruism page link |