I am James Hare, a software developer and consultant from the United States, currently located in Portland, Oregon. I have been contributing to Wikipedia since 2004, writing about many arbitrary topics including government regulations, prescription medications, and very old video games. Since 2013 I have been a contributor to Wikidata, focusing heavily on chemical data and Wikipedia article source metadata. I also enjoy writing short descriptions for Wikipedia articles (i.e. descriptions for Wikidata items) and doing other tasks to improve Wikipedia in microscopic increments. I read Wikipedia a lot, and it is satisfying to copyedit Wikipedia as you read it.

I joined the founding board of Wikimedia District of Columbia in 2011 and served on the board until 2018. During my time with Wikimedia DC I built a strong network between DC-based knowledge institutions and the Wikimedia community while also building up leaders in the Wikimedia community, including future Wikimedia Foundation employees and Wikimedians of the Year. From 2018 to 2019 I worked full time as an associate product manager for the Wikimedia Foundation. Currently, I consult organizations and businesses on product strategy, data modeling, and Wikibase implementation. I also develop my own products.

Projects

Where an organization (other than Wikimedia DC) is referred to by name, I was compensated by that organization for my work on that project.

Current

• Consulting with and developing for the Internet Archive since 2020. I manage the day-to-day operations of InternetArchiveBot and have helped scale it to serve over 100 wikis. I am also working on building a large reference metadata database using data collected by the Internet Archive and InternetArchiveBot.
• Citationgraph bot on Wikidata, originally developed in 2017 and supported by the Internet Archive since 2021. Citationgraph bot connects Wikidata items to each other by their citation relationships, building out a citation graph on Wikidata describing over 250 million relationships between academic works.

Past

• Toolhub, a comprehensive catalog of the software tools used by the Wikimedia movement. I spent early 2018 writing a detailed specification for this "app store" of contributor and organizer tools while working for the Wikimedia Foundation. The Wikimedia Foundation's Technical Engagement team has been supporting the project since 2020.
• The Wikimedia Resource Center, including the {{Portal navigation}} meta-template that is used throughout Meta and as the primary navigation for Wikimania wiki. These were developed as part of a Wikimedia Foundation internship in 2017.
• Wikipedian in Residence at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) from 2015 to 2017. I modeled NIOSH datasets on chemical hazards and research publication for inclusion in Wikidata, uploaded many public domain videos to Wikimedia Commons, and trained NIOSH staff on Wikipedia editing best practices.
• WikiProject X, a research and development project funded by a Wikimedia Foundation grant focusing on WikiProjects, subject-area collaborations on Wikipedia. This culminated in a new design template for WikiProjects, recommendation and information feeds, and an automated directory of WikiProjects.
• Librarybase, a Wikimedia Foundation grant-funded project to build a Wikibase of academic resources. Librarybase was discontinued to focus on reference metadata modeling in Wikidata while making recommendations for evolution of the project. I view the proposed Shared Citations project to be a successor to Librarybase.
• The Wikimedia DC website, including the donation/membership workflows, to make supporting Wikimedia DC as streamlined a process as possible.
• Event management: Wikimania 2012 in Washington, DC; WikiConference USA 2014 and 2015 (now WikiConference North America). I have also planned and executed many smaller outreach events and training workshops.
• I developed Wikipedia bots to manage several English Wikipedia workflows, including Requests for Comment, Feedback Request Service, Good Article Nominations, Miscellany for Deletion, Requested Moves, Proposed Mergers, the Dashboard, and various reports. New bot operators have taken on most of these tasks.