Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
Lucy Moore (Wikipedia editor)
British archaeologist and Wikipedia editor From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
Lucy Moore is a British curator and doctoral student known for improving the coverage of women on Wikipedia. She was UK Wikimedian of the Year in 2022.
.jpg)
Education
Moore earned a BA in Modern History in 2006 from Wadham College, University of Oxford, then an MA in Medieval Studies in 2009 from the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds.[1] Studying part-time while working in a call-centre, she focused on researching early medieval coinage.[2] In 2019 she began doctoral research at the University of York, studying coinage in ninth-century Northumbria.[3][4]
Remove ads
Career
Moore is an archaeologist and curator. After completing her MA, she juggled work as a carer and for the National Trust with internships and fixed-term contracts at Leeds Museums & Galleries and the Ashmolean Museum.[2] In 2013, Moore gained the position of Project Curator at Leeds Museums and Galleries a position she held until 2023.[3][5] During this period, she co-authored the 2015 book Great War Britain. Leeds: Remembering 1914-18.[6]
In 2024, Moore became Associate Curator of Numismatic and Object Collections in the Leeds University Libraries.[5][2] At that time, she also worked as an unpaid carer.[7]
Alongside Wikipedia editing, Moore has undertaken voluntary work, including being a trustee of the Royal Numismatic Society, Leeds Civic Trust, and Carers Leeds.[5][8]
Remove ads
Wikipedia editing
Moore became a Wikipedia editor in 2019.[7][9] Her initial editing focused on soldiers in World War I, but she later decided to improve Wikipedia's coverage of women[9] who are underrepresented in Wikipedia articles.[3]
In 2021, Moore started a project to create a Wikipedia article for a woman from every country in the world. She completed the project in 2024, ahead of International Women's Day.[10][7] As of March 2024, Moore had written 533 biographies of women,[9] including Sharbat Gula, Julia Chinn, Jeanne Gapiya-Niyonzima, Ólafía Einarsdóttir and Gloria Meneses.[7]
Moore also works to encourage others to volunteer on the effort to improve gender representation on Wikipedia,[11] including as an edit-a-thon leader.[12] She has commented that "I think it’s made me better at listening and more compassionate".[2]
Honors
In 2021, she was named Up and Coming Wikimedian of the Year by Wikimedia UK.[3] In 2022, she was UK Wikimedian of the Year.[13]
In 2024, she was one of several hundred women in Leeds recognized on a public sculpture called Ribbons by Pippa Hale.[5][14][15]
Personal life
References
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads