Add to Wikipedia list of DES software

[nacnudus]

Wikipedia has a list of DES software. Should Simmer be added too? What should the blurb say?

[Enchufa2]

I know that page, and it would be great. In fact, I've seen simmer going in and out in several times from that list. The thing is, rules say that a simulator must have its own Wikipedia page (e.g., Simpy has one) in order to be allowed in that list. So someone should create that page in the first place; and I can't, because I'm the author (again, Wikipedia's rules)... :-)

[nacnudus]

I'm not an author :-)

Would this be an appropriate place to draft a page, or would the Wikipedians object to that too?

[Enchufa2]

I'm fine with it, but I'm not sure. Wikipedians can be quite picky.

[nacnudus]

Notability is probably the critical point:

at least three high-quality sources that a) have substantial discussion of the subject (not just a mention) and b) are written and published independently of the subject - Wikipedia

I couldn't find any at first glance :-/

[Enchufa2]

We have, at least:

• A JSS paper, which is a primary source, yes, but it's a peer-reviewed article in a quite important journal nonetheless.
• This paper has citations, i.e., secondary sources that talk about simmer.
• An independent YouTube video.
• This project published in Code Project.
• This blog post written by Norm Matloff, a CS Professor at UC Davis.
• More independent blog posts: 1, 2, 3, at least, after a quick search.
• A Master's Dissertation by independent authors at UGent.
• A book by independent authors.

[Enchufa2]

As an update:

• The JSS paper accumulates 59 citations according to Google Scholar.
• There are more bachelor and master's thesis out there using simmer.
• More articles: e.g. this (in Spanish) and this.
• There are a number of workshops too. There's this nice ICU modelling workshop that @thigger did for the NHS-R Conference. But I also found this, this, this and this by @koendegeling, and several short courses on Coursera.
• There are a number of projects out there modelling COVID-19 patient flows using simmer, but among them, the most notable one is the BaBSim.Hospital package (CRAN, paper).

[Enchufa2]

• Nice post about a parking lot simulation: link 1, link 2, shiny app, source code.

[Enchufa2]

• Very nice workshop [repo, web] by @StaceyCroft, Anastasiia Zharinova and @tomjemmett.