Lucy Moore is a British curator and doctoral student known for improving the coverage of women on

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. She was UK Wikimedian of the Year in 2022.

Education

Moore earned a BA in Modern History in 2006 from Wadham College, University of Oxford, then an MA in 2009 from the Institute for Medieval Studies at the

University of Leeds The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was established in 1874 as the Yorkshire College of Science. In 1884, it merged with the Leeds School of Medicine (established 1831) and was renamed Y ...

. In 2019 she began doctoral research at the

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, studying coinage in ninth-century Northumbria.

Career

Moore is an

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts or ecofacts, ...

and

curator A curator (from , meaning 'to take care') is a manager or overseer. When working with cultural organizations, a curator is typically a "collections curator" or an "exhibitions curator", and has multifaceted tasks dependent on the particular ins ...

. From 2013 to 2023, Moore worked as a Project Curator at Leeds Museums and Galleries. In 2024, Moore became Curator of Coins and 3D objects at the University of Leeds. She also works as an unpaid carer. She is a co-author of the 2015 book ''Great War Britain. Leeds: Remembering 1914-18''. Alongside Wikipedia editing, Moore has undertaken voluntary work, including being a trustee of the

Royal Numismatic Society The Royal Numismatic Society (RNS) is a learned society and charity based in London, United Kingdom which promotes research into all branches of numismatics. Its patron was Queen Elizabeth II. Membership Foremost collectors and researchers, bo ...

, Leeds Civic Trust, and Carers Leeds.

Wikipedia editing

Moore became a Wikipedia editor in 2019. Her initial editing focused on soldiers in

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, but she later decided to improve Wikipedia's coverage of women who are underrepresented in Wikipedia articles. 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 International Women's Day (IWD) is celebrated on 8 March, commemorating women's fight for equality and liberation along with the women's rights movement. International Women's Day gives focus to issues such as gender equality, reproductive righ ...

. As of March 2024, Moore had written 533 biographies of women, including

Sharbat Gula Sharbat Gula (; born ) is an Afghan woman who became internationally recognized as the subject in ''Afghan Girl'', a 1984 portrait taken by American photojournalist Steve McCurry that was later published as the cover photograph for the June 1985 ...

Julia Chinn Julia Chinn ( – July 1833) was an American plantation manager and enslaved woman of "mixed-race" (an "octoroon" of seven-eighths European and one-eighth African ancestry), who was the common-law wife of the ninth vice president of the United ...

, Jeanne Gapiya-Niyonzima,

Ólafía Einarsdóttir Ólafía Einarsdóttir (28 July 1924 – 19 December 2017) was an Icelandic archaeologist and historian, specialising in Icelandic chronology. She was the first Icelander to complete a degree in archaeology. After completing her PhD from Lund Un ...

and Gloria Meneses. Moore also works to encourage others to volunteer on the effort to improve gender representation on Wikipedia, including as an

edit-a-thon An edit-a-thon (sometimes written editathon) is an event where some editors of online communities such as Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap (also known as a " mapathon"), and LocalWiki edit and improve a specific topic or type of content. The events typ ...

leader.

Honors

In 2021, she was named Up and Coming Wikimedian of the Year by Wikimedia UK. In 2022, she was UK Wikimedian of the Year. In 2024, she was one of several hundred women in Leeds recognized on a public sculpture called '' Ribbons'' by

Pippa Hale Pippa Hale is a contemporary British artist, founder of the Northern Art Prize and co-founder of Leeds contemporary art gallery The Tetley. Early life Hale studied for a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design at Warwickshire College of Furt ...

Personal life

Moore lives in

Leeds Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England. It is the largest settlement in Yorkshire and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds Metropolitan Borough, which is the second most populous district in the United Kingdom. It is built aro ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, Lucy Year of birth missing (living people) Living people British archaeologists British women archaeologists English women curators People from Leeds Wikipedia people Alumni of the University of Oxford Alumni of the University of Leeds