See also: m:User:Fuzheado
Andrew Lih is the author of The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia (ISBN 1401303714), which was published March 17, 2009. He also co-hosts the active Wikipedia Weekly Facebook group and occasional Wikipedia Weekly podcast.
He is currently the Smithsonian Institution's Wikimedian-at-large spearheading open content initiatives with Wikimedia projects, and was previous the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Wikimedia Strategist working with their open access collections after launch in 2017.
His research into the use of machine learning techniques with Wikidata include:
- Combining AI and Human Judgment to Build Knowledge about Art on a Global Scale, The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Now at The Met blog, March 4, 2019. By Andrew Lih, Wikimedia Strategist.
He formerly taught at American University in Washington, DC, University of Southern California, University of Hong Kong, where he studied participatory journalism in the form of blogs and wikis, and at Columbia University where he helped start the new media program. See the Wikipedia:School and university projects page for more information. Sometimes he can be found at the Chinese Wikipedia. In 2012, he worked to further the use of video in Wikipedia through the use of video patterns. See User:Fuzheado/Video_project for more info.
He has been an editor since July 2003, and was made an admin/sysop October 3, 2003, when he passed the RfA process with a grand total of six yes votes.