Jason Moore (Wikipedia editor)

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Jason Moore
Moore at WikiConference North America, 2016
Born1984 or 1985 (age 39–40)[1]
NationalityAmerican

Jason Moore is an American Wikipedia editor who began editing in 2007 and was one of the 50 most active contributors by 2022. Moore has helped organize edit-a-thons, created and expanded entries about current events and other topics, supported efforts to reduce gender bias on Wikipedia, and worked to improve coverage of LGBT-related content across Wikimedia projects.

Wikipedia

Moore began editing Wikipedia in 2007,[1][2] where his username is "Another Believer",[1][3] because he "just really enjoyed the instant gratification of making the Internet better so easily".[3] In 2013, The Oregonian's David Stabler described Moore as one of the encyclopedia's 1,000 most prolific editors, having created 1,300 articles and made more than 58,000 edits to various Wikimedia projects.[1] Stabler noted his work on two specific Wikipedia articles: Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall (2007), the first article he created and his first to be promoted to "featured article" status, and Music for a Time of War, which is about the Oregon Symphony's 2011 concert program and subsequent album recording.[1] Moore also wrote about Portland's horse rings, roses, and Yale Union Laundry Building. He described his approach to editing, some of Wikipedia's guidelines, article quality assessment, conflict-of-interest editing, and the satisfaction of "sharing information with the world".[1]

Moore at an Art+Feminism edit-a-thon in Portland, Oregon, 2016

In addition to being an active editor, Moore attends Wikipedia conferences, organizes local meet-ups, and trains new editors.[1] In 2013, he organized an edit-a-thon at the Portland Art Museum's Crumpacker Library as part of the national campaign Wikipedia Loves Libraries.[4][5] He and the museum's librarian invited people to use institutional resources to improve coverage of local artists, arts organizations, and public art.[4][5][6] The event also kicked off the Oregon Arts Project, a WikiProject started by Moore for people wanting to improve coverage of the arts in Oregon.[4][6][7]

Moore has supported initiatives to reduce gender bias and racial bias on Wikipedia, teaching skills at edit-a-thons to help editors improve content about feminists, LGBT people, people of color, and women.[8][9][10][11][12] Moore has also helped lead Wikimedia LGBT+, an LGBT-specific outreach affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation.[13][14] From 2014 to 2016, he wrote guest Wikimedia Foundation blog posts about the affiliate's goals and major outreach initiatives. Moore encouraged people to participate in Wiki Loves Pride,[15] the group's annual campaign to "expand and improve LGBT-related content across several Wikimedia projects and to celebrate LGBT culture and history".[16]

In 2017, he co-organized the inaugural "420 collaboration", an effort to create and improve cannabis-related content on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, on and around April 20, which has become an unofficial holiday in cannabis culture.[17]

Current events

Moore at WikiConference USA in New York City, 2014

In March 2020, Moore created a WikiProject dedicated to improving Wikipedia coverage of COVID-19 and the pandemic.[3][18] According to Slate's Stephen Harrison, Moore documented the pandemic "in real time from many viewpoints, starting articles about the pandemic's impacts in various U.S. states, the LGBTQ community, and discrete sectors like the cannabis industry".[19] In mid-2020, following the murder of George Floyd, Moore worked on articles about the Black Lives Matter and George Floyd protests.[20] He also created a WikiProject dedicated to coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement and related pages such as notable protests and incidents of police brutality.[21] He had made more than 350,000 edits to Wikipedia by August 2020.[3]

Moore started the entry about the 2021 United States Capitol attack.[22] Fast Company's Alex Pasternack said Moore and other editors "jumped into ad hoc roles as quasi community organizers, shepherding conversations and handling a growing pile of edit conflicts and requests from users who didn't have permission to edit the page directly".[2] Moore was one the top 55 contributors to English Wikipedia, as of February 2021.[23] In 2022, Moore started the articles about the Buffalo and Laguna Woods shootings. By May, he was one of English Wikipedia's 50 most active users of all time with approximately 500,000 edits. He has created thousands of pages,[24] including some about "earthquakes, wildfires, terrorism attacks and other breaking news moments", according to Samantha Murphy Kelly of CNN Business, who described Moore as a "Wikipedia influencer".[20]

Personal life and career

Moore was raised in Houston and enjoyed book reports and science projects as a student.[1]

Moore lives in Portland and worked in the Oregon Symphony's fundraising department, as of 2013.[1][25][4] As of 2020–2022, he is a strategist for a digital consultancy.[3][2][20]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Stabler, David (May 11, 2013). "Wikipedia a passion for Portland's Jason Moore". The Oregonian. Portland, Oregon: Advance Publications. ISSN 8750-1317. Archived from the original on March 14, 2016. Retrieved March 11, 2016. Note: The article appeared on page E1 in The Sunday Oregonian (May 12) with the title "To do his job well, you'll need references – lots of them".
  2. ^ a b c Pasternack, Alex (January 14, 2021). "As a mob attacked the Capitol, Wikipedia struggled to find the right words". Fast Company. Archived from the original on January 15, 2021. Retrieved January 14, 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d e Andrews, Travis M. (August 7, 2020). "Covid-19 is one of Wikipedia's biggest challenges ever. Here's how the site is handling it". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on August 9, 2020. Retrieved August 10, 2020.
  4. ^ a b c d Hallett, Alison (October 11, 2013). "Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon Aims to Improve Crowd-Sourced Local Arts Coverage". Portland Mercury. Index Publishing. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved March 11, 2016.
  5. ^ a b Stabler, David (October 9, 2013). "Reel Music Festival, a Wiki edit-athon, August Wilson Monologue Competition: arts roundup". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on April 2, 2019. Retrieved April 2, 2019.
  6. ^ a b Hallett, Alison (October 16, 2013). "Oregon Arts Project: A Wiki-Based Approach to Local Arts Coverage". Portland Mercury. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved March 12, 2016.
  7. ^ Hallett, Alison (January 15, 2014). "Wikipedia Arts + Feminism Edit-a-Thon". Portland Mercury. Archived from the original on September 18, 2015. Retrieved March 18, 2016.
  8. ^ "Feminist Wikipedia Edit-a-thon". RECESS. Archived from the original on November 27, 2014. Retrieved April 5, 2019.
  9. ^ "2015 Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon". Portland Art Museum. 2015. Archived from the original on August 7, 2020. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
  10. ^ Solomon, Molly (March 18, 2017). "Portland Edit-a-Thon Aims to Close Wikipedia Gender Gap". Oregon Public Broadcasting. Archived from the original on March 19, 2017. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
  11. ^ "Pacific Northwest College of Art to Host Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Artists of Color". Pacific Northwest College of Art. October 6, 2017. Archived from the original on November 26, 2021. Retrieved March 6, 2019.
  12. ^ Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA):
  13. ^ Wexelbaum, Rachel; Herzog, Katie; Rasberry, Lane (2015). "Queering Wikipedia". In Wexelbaum, Rachel (ed.). Queers Online: LGBT Digital Practices in Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Sacramento, California: Litwin Books. p. 67. ISBN 978-1936117796. Archived from the original on October 3, 2015. Retrieved March 18, 2017.
  14. ^ Wexelbaum, Rachel (May 1, 2019). "Coming Out of the Closet: Librarian Advocacy to Advance LGBTQ+ Wikipedia Engagement". In Mehra, Bharat (ed.). LGBTQ+ Librarianship in the 21st Century: Emerging Directions of Advocacy and Community Engagement in Diverse Information Environments. Emerald Group Publishing. p. 118. ISBN 9781787564756. Archived from the original on June 11, 2020. Retrieved August 18, 2019.
  15. ^ Wexelbaum, Rachel (June 10, 2019). "Edit Loud, Edit Proud: LGBTIQ+ Wikimedians and Global Information Activism". In Reagle, Joseph; Koerner, Jackie (eds.). Wikipedia @ 20: Stories of an Incomplete Revolution. MIT Press.
  16. ^ Wiki Loves Pride:
  17. ^ Elsharbaty, Samir; Luth, Eric (April 16, 2017). "Community digest: The UNESCO Challenge aims to help preserve World Heritage Sites; news in brief". Wikimedia Foundation. Archived from the original on August 22, 2018. Retrieved April 16, 2017.
  18. ^ Vázquez, Karelia (November 28, 2020). "¿Y tú te fiarías de la Wikipedia en 2020?". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved June 1, 2022.
  19. ^ Harrison, Stephen (May 27, 2020). "Future Historians Will Rely on Wikipedia's COVID-19 Coverage". Slate. The Slate Group. OCLC 728292344. Archived from the original on May 27, 2020. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
  20. ^ a b c Kelly, Samantha Murphy (May 20, 2022). "Meet the Wikipedia editor who published the Buffalo shooting entry minutes after it started". CNN Business. CNN. Retrieved May 20, 2022.
  21. ^ Harrison, Stephen (June 9, 2020). "How Wikipedia Became a Battleground for Racial Justice". Slate. Archived from the original on November 3, 2021. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
  22. ^ Hern, Alex (January 15, 2021). "Wikipedia at 20: last gasp of an internet vision, or a beacon to a better future?". The Guardian. Archived from the original on January 15, 2021. Retrieved January 15, 2021.
  23. ^ Gedye, Grace (February 4, 2021). "When the Capitol Was Attacked, Wikipedia Went to Work". Washington Monthly. Archived from the original on March 2, 2021. Retrieved February 4, 2021.
  24. ^ Williams, Rhiannon (May 23, 2022). "The Download: DeepMind's AI shortcomings, and China's social media translation problem". MIT Technology Review. ISSN 0040-1692. Retrieved June 1, 2022.
  25. ^ "Rotary speakers" (PDF). Northwest Examiner. Vol. 27, no. 1. September 2013. p. 17. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 19, 2015. Retrieved July 8, 2017.

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