User:Waarmstr

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Me

• 30-something male living in Washington, D.C.
• Bachelors of Science, in Computer Technology, from Purdue University.

Waarmstr falling asleep.

Wikipedia

I usually see a topic in the news and look for background info on it. If it doesn't exist on wikipedia I try to add it. (e.g. When the 2006 Miss America pageant was on I tried to look up state level pageants and couldn't find many pages. I put in a request for state level pages, as well as more clarification on the Miss USA vs. Miss America pageants at the state level.)

I also like to link existing information. (e.g. Eminem's wife and daughter have pages, but they were not linked from his article. I created the links.

Occasionally I'll read a book or hear a lecture on a topic that hasn't been covered and add a completely new article. (e.g. Added Cao Rulin page after hearing a lecture on the Paris Peace Talks. Added Fresno Pacific University when my friend became a resident director there.

To-do

• Discover my (wiki)life's work. There are so many roads to go down. I probably won't write bots, or contribute a great number of new articles. The idea of creating maps has recently caught my eye, as well as adding photos to articles.
  • Requested Maps
• Monitor initial contributions for drastic changes.
• Add images through the following means:
  • Solicit photographers for the use of their images. Instead of bugging people to take pictures of things they wouldn't have bothered with, find someone with a specialty (birds, cities, travel, etc.) and get open rights on what they've already taken pictures of.
  • Add photos to Lindy Hop from Dorrie's photo album.
• Add churches, and take pictures of Philadelphia churches.
• Contribute to the Philadelphia WikiProject & WikiPortal
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject_Philadelphia
  • Portal:Philadelphia
• Update Federal Triangle buildings. Esp. add info onMellon Auditorium.
• Visit the Frank Lloyd Wright home for Andrew F. H. Armstrong Residence, Ogden Dunes, Indiana, 1939
  • Add page on Suntop Homes, Ardmore, Pennsylvania, 1938.
• Watch Morris-Butler House article.

Done

• Create Liz Story page.
  • Learn how to use templates e.g. Norah Jones

Women Wikipedians

• I'm recently visited the Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC. As a result I've been thinking more about women's issues, and am curious about the work of women on Wikipedia.
• I need to research this more starting with these articles [1], [2], [3], [4], [5].
• UPDATE: I was looking at photos from Wiki-Meetups and a rough survey shows only about 15% of attendees are female.

Things I'm amazed by

• Treaty_on_Open_Skies - Big brother is watching.
• Runic_calendar - Swedish (not Elvish).
• List_of_ICD-9_codes - I had no idea we had these types of codes for different diseases.
• Creative_Commons - need to read up on this.
• Systemic Bias - Might try and work some of these off.
• Collaborative Work Of Art - remembering what we are to become.
• Simple Wikipedia

W-Links

• Wikipedia quotes
• Óscar_Romero
• John_Ruskin
• [6]
• Breviary
• Spanish-American_War
• Citizen_kane
• Philadelphia_and_Reading_Railroad
• West_Chester_and_Philadelphia_Railroad
• Cross_of_gold_speech
• [7]
• Panic_of_1893
• The Rockefellers John_D._Rockefeller
• Wikipedia Templates WP:TMAIN
• Islam Manual of Style Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(Islam-related_articles)
• International_Atomic_Time
• Gps
• Dominical_letter
• Wikipedia:Image_copyright_tags
• Wikipedia:Image_description_page
• Wikipedia:Picture_tutorial
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Geographical_coordinates

Interesting Users

These are people who I've learned from or have links to interesting topics.

• User:Gflores (Welcomed me to wikipedia. Tips on where improvements can be made.
• User:Moskvax (likes cool music)
• User:Ewok_Slayer (encouragement to be bold)
• User:Beilby (Working with Beilby to add pictures of birds to articles.)
• User:Rambot (Info on Wikipedia:Multi-licensing)
• User:Sango123 (Admin, info on images.)
• User:LA2 (Geo Info, Structured Data in a Wiki)
• User:Galaxiaad (Philly Portal, Disambig, etc.)
• User:Sorrowek (Disputes, etc.)

Other

Articles I've worked on

In no particular order:

• Cao Rulin - created from scratch
• Fresno Pacific University - created from scratch

Milestones

• 1st vandalism revert 13:35, February 28, 2006
• 1st unregistered edit - 19:34, October 19, 2004.
• 1st registered edit - 12:36, March 13, 2005.
• Most recent edit