Wiki Woman

摘要

"Susan Barnum's work as a public services librarian at the El Paso Public Library has impacted millions of people," says nominator Merrilee Proffitt of OCLC. How has she affected so many? By editing Wikipedia. Barnum's volunteer work on Wikipedia (where she goes by MegaLibraryGirl) and her day job go hand in hand. "I have all these books sitting around, and they fill in a gap for references on Wikipedia," she says. One of the 350 Wikipedia articles Barnum wrote is about El Paso's El Segundo Barrio. She later learned that the piece was used as background in an El Paso History Museum exhibit. Illuminating underappreciated ethnic history is just one aspect of Barnum's work. As Librarian in Residence at the Women in Red (WiR) WikiProject, she helps increase representation by writing or editing Wikipedia articles about notable women worldwide.