Lucy Moore (Wikipedia editor)
British archaeologist and Wikipedia editor
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lucy Moore is a British curator and numismatist, known for improving the coverage of women on Wikipedia. She was UK Wikimedian of the Year in 2022.
.jpg)
Lucy Moore | |
|---|---|
Moore in April 2024 | |
| Occupations | Archaeologist, curator, Wikipedia editor |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Wadham College, University of Oxford, University of Leeds, University of York |
| Thesis | Coinage in 9th-century Northumbria: Copper-alloy, Kings and Vikings (2025) |
| Dawn Hadley[1] | |
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.[2] Studying part-time while working in a call-centre, she focused on researching early medieval coinage.[3] In 2019 she began doctoral research at the University of York.[4][5] Her 2025 thesis is titled Coinage in 9th-century Northumbria: Copper-alloy, Kings and Vikings.[6]
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.[3] In 2013, Moore gained the position of Project Curator at Leeds Museums and Galleries a position she held until 2023.[4][7] During this period, she co-authored the 2015 book Great War Britain. Leeds: Remembering 1914-18.[8]
In 2024, Moore became Associate Curator of Numismatic and Object Collections in the Leeds University Libraries.[7][3] At that time, she also worked as an unpaid carer.[9]
Alongside Wikipedia editing, Moore has undertaken voluntary work, including being a trustee of the Royal Numismatic Society, Leeds Civic Trust, and Carers Leeds.[7][10]
Wikipedia editing
Moore became a Wikipedia editor in 2019.[9][11] Her initial editing focused on soldiers in World War I, but she later decided to improve Wikipedia's coverage of women,[11] who are underrepresented in Wikipedia articles.[4]
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.[12][9] As of March 2024, Moore had written 533 biographies of women,[11] including Sharbat Gula, Julia Chinn, Jeanne Gapiya-Niyonzima, Ólafía Einarsdóttir and Gloria Meneses.[9]
Moore also works to encourage others to volunteer on the effort to improve gender representation on Wikipedia,[13] including as an edit-a-thon leader.[14] She has commented that "I think it’s made me better at listening and more compassionate".[3]
Honors
In 2021, she was named Up and Coming Wikimedian of the Year by Wikimedia UK.[4] In 2022, she was UK Wikimedian of the Year.[15]
In 2024, she was one of several hundred women in Leeds recognized on a public sculpture called Ribbons by Pippa Hale.[7][16][17]
In 2026, Moore received a Wikipedia Silver Jubilee Award, one of five awards issued in London to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of Wikipedia and fifteenth anniversary of Wikimedia UK as a registered charity.[18]
Personal life
Select publications
- Allfrey, F., Moore, L. & Nevell, R. 2024. 'Forging the medieval on Wikipedia'. Postmedieval 15. 549–580. doi:10.1057/s41280-024-00321-6
- Nevel, Richard, and Lucy Moore. 2024. 'Wikipedia and Archaeology', in The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and the Media in the 21st Century. Routledge. 2024. 195-213.
- Carruthers, W., Niala, J.C., Davis, S., Challis, D., Schiappacasse, P.A., Dixon, S., Milosavljević, M., Moore, L., Nevell, R., Fitzpatrick, A. and Abd el Gawad, H. 2021. 'Inequality and Race in the Histories of Archaeology', Bulletin of the History of Archaeology 31(1). 1-19.