User:Lajmmoore

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.

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:
 * User:Lajmmoore/Round the World Challenge/Trans edition

2024 articles

 * 1) 🇸🇲 Karen Pruccoli
 * 2) 🇹🇿 Adelaida K. Semesi
 * 3)  Central Archives of Gaza City
 * 4)  Leeds 2023
 * 5)  Transvestism and Transsexuality in Modern Society
 * 6) 🇹🇲 Svetlana Myartseva
 * 7) 🇯🇵 Sasaki Toyoju
 * 8) 🇱🇨 Leonne Theodore-John
 * 9) 🇹🇹 Molly Gaskin
 * 10) 🇹🇼 Chen Xue (writer)
 * 11)  Brenda Dolphin
 * 12) 🇸🇬 Teo Sim Hua
 * 13) 🇸🇸 Mari Malek
 * 14) 🇧🇹 Zimbiri
 * 15) 🇨🇷 Ana Cardoso (enslaved woman)
 * 16) 🇰🇲 Rashid Mohamed Mbaraka Fatma
 * 17) 🇩🇲 Denise Charles
 * 18) 🇻🇦 Catia Summaria
 * 19) 🇻🇪 Livia Gouverneur
 * 20) Hibiscus Rising
 * 21)  Yolanda González (activist)
 * 22)  Suzanna Taverne
 * 23)  Della Aleksander
 * 24)  Kully Thiarai
 * 25) 🇳🇱 Gay van der Meer
 * 26) Transgender archaeology
 * 27)  Philomena Franz
 * 28) 🇮🇲 Isla Callister
 * 29) 🇬🇬 Ellen Oliver (suffragette)
 * 30) 🇮🇷 Malekeh Malekzadeh Bayani
 * 31) 🇮🇶 Death of Noor Alsaffar
 * 32)  Zamzam Dahir Mohamud
 * 33)  Lola Kallikhanova
 * 34) 🇦🇹 Leopold Zahn
 * 35) 🇦🇲 Zhanna Aghamiryan
 * 36) 🇦🇲 Henrik Igityan National Centre for Aesthetics
 * 37) 🇧🇪 Liza 'N' Eliaz
 * 38) 🇳🇿 RV Kaharoa
 * 39)  Marie Christiane Agathe
 * 40)  Kato Mikeladze Award
 * 41)  Koh Heeyoung
 * 42)  Nisaran Abbasi
 * 43)  Kausar Taqdees Gillani
 * 44)  Hadja Bainon Karon
 * 45)  Iryna Vdovychenko
 * 46) 🇨🇳 Bai Jingying

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

Awards

 * 2021 - jointly awarded Up-and-Coming Wikimedian of the Year by Wikimedia UK
 * 2022 - awarded Wikimedian of the year by Wikimedia UK
 * 2024 - awarded an Open Research Award by the University of York

Scholarships

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

Committee roles

 * 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

Leeds 2023

 * 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 GLAM/LEEDS 2023. Images were uploaded from an alt account User:Lajmmoore (L23 WIR). This project was funded by Wikimedia UK.

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.

Tools

 * https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/userviews/
 * File upload wizard
 * GLAM/AoWPAL 2024/CAG/Exhibit exemplar
 * GLAM/AoWPAL 2024/CAG/Exhibit exemplar

Project Pages
GLAM/Leeds

WikiProject Leeds

Translation
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Lajmmoore/Ira_Rischowksi Ira Rischowski

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frazelia_Campbell

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faiza_Lalam