Lajmmoore

My name is Lucy and I am a postgraduate researcher and administration asssitant at the University of York. I am also a curator at the University of Leeds. My pronouns are she/her. I started editing in February 2019 at an event run by West Yorkshire Queer Stories. My training account is User:Lajmmoore Demo.

If you're interested in what I write about, there's a few lists here:

• 2019's 39 articles
• 2020's 145 articles
• 2021's 222 articles
• 2022's 140 articles
• 2023's 66 articles
• Articles relating to previous employment at LMG are here
• Articles to improve the coverage of museums in Oceania
• Articles that I've worked on or created in relation to my PhD research are here
• Articles I've created to address countries with the highest gender imbalance are here
• Brain dump on menstrual justice, Commons and Wikidata
• To do: sanitary bin, BP hoard
• User:Lajmmoore/Round the World Challenge/Trans edition
• DYK nominations
• Good articles: 2 - Jacquetta Hawkes, Veiqia
• drafts: Draft:Polo (novel), Draft:Ásthrithr

In 2024 I completed a Round-the-World Challenge to write an article about a woman from every country in the world. It was featured in:

• UK academic’s Wikipedia project raises profile of women around the world (The Guardian)
• 17.20 secs in Cancelled Culture | As It Happens (CBC)
• 2hrs 41 in Morning Show (BBC Radio Scotland)
• The Guardian view on Wikipedia’s female volunteers: a hive heroism that changes history (The Guardian)
• Isa Soares Tonight - around 7.40pm (CNN International)
• Weekend - BBC World Service - 43 minutes in
• Hero of the Week - Pod Save the UK
• A mention in The Signpost
• I also wrote an article for Diff

You can find out a bit more about my attitudes to editing by reading these articles:

• Waging War on the Wiki Gender Gap
• Race, Gender and Wikipedia: How the Global Encyclopaedia deals with inequality

• 2021 - jointly awarded Up-and-Coming Wikimedian of the Year by Wikimedia UK
• 2022 - Wikimedian of the year by Wikimedia UK
• 2024 - Open Research Award by the University of York
• 2024 - Open Education Global Award (Wildcard)

• November 2023: fully funded WMF scholarship to attend GLAMWiki conference in Montevideo, Uruguay
• August 2023: fully funded WMF scholarhship to attend Wikimania in Singapore

• From 2021 to 2023 I was a member of the Grants:Regions/Northern and Western Europe Committee, which was my first experience in getting more involved with the work of WMF.
• From July 2024 I joined Wikimedia UK's Community Development Committee

  This user, in accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, discloses that she has been paid by Leeds 2023 for her contributions to Wikipedia.

• Between November 2023 to January 2024 I worked for Leeds 2023 to release images of the year of culture to Wikimedia Commons and undertook some limited paid editing on their behalf. See Wikipedia:GLAM/LEEDS 2023. Images were uploaded from an alt account User:Lajmmoore (L23 WIR). This project was funded by Wikimedia UK.

  This user, in accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, discloses that she has been paid by National Trust for her contributions to Wikipedia.

• The National Trust commissioned a second pilot and appointed me as Wikimedian in Residence on 14 September 2023, part-time for five months. We worked with volunteers at Bath Assembly Rooms and the Avebury Landscape. Keep up with the pilot at WP:GLAM/National Trust

• In July and August 2022 I worked as a freelancer for a National Trust pilot project looking at Wikipedia; you can see an edit tracker here. This pilot was subsequently extended by 10 further days across September, October, November and December 2022. It ended in January 2023.

• In February 2024 I worked as a freelance researcher and copy editor for Wikimedia UK, contributing to Changemaker's toolbox - introductory resources to campaigning and advocacy
• From April to June 2023 I worked as a freelance researcher for Wikimedia UK working on short-term project exploring barriers to participation for small-and-medium-sized cultural heritage organisations. The project was funded externally via a grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and the Young foundation. See: Heritage Innovation Fund Report, Lucy Moore, July 2023

• In February and March 2022 I worked as a freelancer for Greenham Women Everywhere, identifying Wikimedia opportunities and producing training resources for volunteers.

• https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/userviews/
• Wikipedia:File upload wizard
• {{Infobox person/Wikidata | fetchwikidata=ALL}}
• Wikipedia:GLAM/AoWPAL 2024/CAG/Exhibit exemplar

• Wikipedia:GLAM/Leeds
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Leeds

• https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Rischowski
• https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frazelia_Campbell
• https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faiza_Lalam