Lajmmoore

This user has been on Wikipedia for 5 years, 3 months and 24 days.

This user has made 543 women blue.

This user is a member of the Women's Classical Committee

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WikiProject Black Lives Matter.

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WikiProject African Diaspora.

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This user received the Editor of the Week award.

This user makes women green.

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Hello!

I and am a postgraduate researcher, graduate teaching assistant and administration asssitant at the University of York. 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.

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. In the same year I was also jointly awarded Up-and-Coming Wikimedian of the Year by Wikimedia UK.

In 2022 I was awarded UK Wikimedian of the Year by Wikimedia UK.

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
Ideas: WD, WD
User:Lajmmoore/Round the World Challenge/Trans edition

2024 articles

Round the world challenge

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

Read a bit more

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

Scholarships

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

Paid work

Leeds 2023

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.

National Trust

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.

Pilot 2

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

Pilot 1

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.

Wikimedia UK

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

Greenham Women Everywhere

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