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My name is Lane Rasberry and I am asking for your vote in the October 8, 2025―October 23, 2025 election for Wikipedia's board of trustees!
I have been editing Wikipedia since 2004, organizing Wikipedia partnerships with community organizations since 2006, and professionally developing Wikipedia content as a researcher since 2012. I am as engaged in Wikipedia and as networked with other editors as a person can be. Since 2018, I have been a data scientist and Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Virginia School of Data Science. My university colleagues in all fields are ready to support and advise me if I am elected to the Wikimedia Foundation board of trustees. Strategically in the Wikimedia Movement, university partnerships can support our online community in better joining global discussions on public policy, human rights, strategic planning, accounting and financial review, and information science partnerships of all kinds. The Wikimedia Foundation staff are great but also overwhelmed, and to react quickly enough to fast-moving technological changes, collaborations with any modest university will bring in more relevant subject matter experts and student research assistants than the Wikimedia Foundation can afford to employ. I and my Wikipedia research colleagues are already years into community-focused, people-first artificial intelligence, machine learning, and information science research in Wikipedia. My Wikipedia community colleagues will confirm that if given the opportunity through election, I will use my resources, role, and position to direct as much governance, technological, and institutional power as I can into Wikipedia's community leadership channels. VideosI am taking requests to answer Wikipedia questions by video! Chat with me!
 Biographical sketch
Lane Rasberry is Wikimedian-in-residence at the School of Data Science at the University of Virginia. His interests include popular science, consumer protection, civic engagement, access to health information, clinical research, the Open Movement, data science, LGBT history, and Wikimedia projects.
Lane Rasberry is Wikimedian-in-residence at the School of Data Science at the University of Virginia. In this role Lane seeks to support students, faculty, and staff at the university in sharing information in Wikipedia, Wikidata, and other Wikimedia projects. In this way people at the university use Wikipedia to publish to a large audience including students, researchers, journalists, and anyone else doing basic research on a topic. Lane's professional interests include popular science, consumer protection, civic engagement, access to health information, clinical research, the Open Movement, data science, LGBT history, and Wikimedia projects. Previous to working with Wikimedia projects Lane was a community organizer for open content projects in the sciences and administered clinical trials. From 2012-18 Lane was Wikimedian-in-residence at Consumer Reports where he supported the development of Wikimedia content on product safety and medicine. Lane's personal interests include coffee, LGBT+ community centers, small mammals as pets, digital rights, and Seattle. | ||||||||||
