Hi!
This is Vipul Naik. I completed my B.Sc. (Hons) in Mathematics at the Chennai Mathematical Institute in Siruseri which is just off Chennai, India and my Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Chicago. I currently work in a mixed data science, programming, and customer success role at LiftIgniter, a machine learning/data science startup in San Francisco. My website is vipulnaik.com. All edits I make are in my personal capacity and not on behalf of any of the aforementioned organizations.
For more on my Wikipedia editing, see my site page about Wikipedia, my site page about sponsored Wikipedia editing, and the list of all pages I have created, with pageviews across the years.
For a most up-to-date list of people I am sponsoring for creating Wikipedia content, and links to the specific pieces of work I have sponsored, see this repository or this portal. For a list of new articles currently being worked on, or ones where I am trying to find people to work on them, see this page.
You might also be interested in Issa Rice, one of the people who makes edits and improvements to Wikipedia, some of which I pay for. You can also see my payment list to him (or a more information-rich version thereof).
Permission to cite and reference (in on-Wikipedia discussions) any stuff published under my name off-wiki
You have permission to reference and quote any content published by me, that is identified as being by me in any of the following ways:
- Any publicly accessible activity by me using my Facebook account (this includes public posts and comments on others' public posts)
- Any content under the domain vipulnaik.com or any of its subdomains (including contractwork.vipulnaik.com)
- Any content in GitHub repositories under my account
- Any content I published on these online venues: LessWrong with username VipulNaik, Effective Altruism Forum with username vipulnaik, Open Borders: The Case with username vipulnaik, and Quora with username Vipul Naik. You can also use any of the accounts I list as mine on the connect page on my website.
The content under these accounts may not reflect my current views, but I will not consider it outing of my identity if you reference or link to any of this material.
If you find other online content that you think might be by me but aren't sure, please feel free to reach out to me on-wiki or off-wiki (via email at vipulnaik1@gmail.com or on Facebook) to confirm.
This is to address concerns people might have with OUTING when discussing my off-wiki content in connection with my on-wiki activity.
List of people I've paid
Note that I am not responsible for all edits of these people. The links below provide context on what edits I've paid for -- you should not assume that any edit by somebody in this list was requested or paid for by me.
To get a combined list of all contributions across all workers, see here. This includes tasks not specific to Wikipedia as well. You can sort the table by the task type and look for "Wikipedia page creation" and "Wikipedia page update", plus other task types that have "Wikipedia" in the name.
You can cross-check this list against the programmatically generated list here.
Finally, keep in mind that current edits by people in this list may not be included in the payment list. However, you should usually be able to see content currently reserved for being worked on at new-article-pool.mediawiki.
Userspace versions of deleted pages
A non-comprehensive list for userspace versions of pages that were substantial but deleted from main space. Includes pages created and sponsored by me.