Bluerasberry

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!

• Wikipedia is the most requested, published, accessed, and consulted information source! Be proud of it and protect it, because we could lose it!
• Editing Wikipedia is not a crime! Wikipedia is under threat! Support the right of everyone to read and edit Wikipedia!
• Wikipedia is the only Very Large Online Platform which the users self-govern! Exercise your right to vote! This is the most important election on the Internet!
• Wikipedia is successful because we have user governance! Our technology is important, but readers trust us because we put editors first!
• Invest in Skills and Leadership Development to ensure that our users actually take and use governance power!

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.

I am taking requests to answer Wikipedia questions by video! Chat with me!

• Editing Wikipedia is not a crime
• What does a Wikimedian in Residence do?
• What beginners should know about Wikipedia article drafts
• The Signpost, Wikipedia's own community newspaper
• Wikimedia New York City celebrates 20 years of Wikipedia
• Mini-documentary about my queer community center, Chinchilla Café
• Art and Feminism 2017 at MoMA
• Symposium on Wikipedia and COVID-19