User: GUllman

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Hi there, Wikipedia users! I discovered Wikipedia the last week of November 2002 when it was mentioned in the September 15, 2002 issue of Booklist Magazine.

I have a B.A. in Geography and a Masters in Library Science, and am now working at a public library in the Los Angeles (California) area.

Wikipedia needs more librarians!

As I've enjoyed and contributed to Wikipedia during the past year and a half, one question has been nagging me. Where are all the librarians? There's a wide variety of Wikipedians, but there are only a few professional librarians that are writing library-related articles and helping organize the links and subjects, which is a librarian's specialty.

Is it because Wikipedia appears to fail every test for a reputable, authoritative web site that we learned in library school? Well, here is your chance to contribute to a huge file of answers to reference stumpers! Here is your chance to use your knowledge of how information is organized to organize a web site! People who can't get to a library are using Wikipedia and its mirror sites to get information, so here is your chance to teach Internet users around the world how to search and then evaluate what they find -- in a library and on the Internet! I say, "If you can't beat Wikipedia, join it!"

My "Wiki Work"

I have started or made major contributions to these Wikipedia pages under the names GUllman or 4.22.114.34:

• Contortion
• Library reference desk
• List of books (my work in progress)
• List of California-related topics
• Lists of articles by category
• Los Angeles International Airport
• Wikipedia:Entertainment basic topics
• Wikipedia:Library and Information Science basic topics
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Books

... and I added at least a paragraph or a list of links to:

• 101 (number)
• Adelanto, California
• Agoura Hills, California
• Alameda County, California
• Alhambra, California
• Alturas, California
• Angels Camp, California
• Applause
• Bob Hope Airport
• Circus (performing art)
• Covina, California
• Downey, California
• The Frugal Gourmet
• Gambia River
• Genealogy
• Hands Across America
• Interlibrary loan
• It's a small world
• Joke
• Library
• List of books by genre or type
• List of numbers
• Metro Zócalo
• Muncie, Indiana
• Oceanic ridge
• Oceanic trench
• Orders of magnitude (numbers)
• Passion (movie)
• Queen: the story of an American family
• Sabado Gigante
• Shaggy dog story
• Starch
• Timeline of United States history
• Tool
• University of California, Los Angeles
• Volcano (movie)
• Weirton, West Virginia
• West Los Angeles College

These are the articles that I'm working on starting or improving:

• Almanac
• Back to the Future
• Catalog
• Cities in the Los Angeles area: Fountain Valley, California, Westchester, California
• Counties of California: Amador County, California, Alpine County, California, etc.
• Library
• List of things
• Wikipedia arranged by topic

In the future, I'd like to contribute to pages on:

• Physical geography (specific mountains, volcanoes, islands, etc.)
• Cities of the U.S.
• Counties of the U.S.
• Genealogy
• Performing arts
• Television shows
• Librarianship (young adult literature, etc)

GUllman Nov. 14, 2003

Latest news: I'm #137 on the list of Wikipedians by number of edits (July 2003)!