Andrew Lih
Wikimedian At Large at Smithsonian Institution
Potomac, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Lih is a Wikimedian-at-large and cultural heritage technologist with nine years of formal experience connecting major museums and research institutions—most recently the Smithsonian and The Met—to Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons. He blends practical software engineering, AI/ML, and linked open data work with deep journalism and multimedia experience, having written The Wikipedia Revolution and produced video reporting on China and technology. As principal investigator on the Knight-funded Wiki Art Depiction Explorer and founder of Digimentors, he builds metadata and tooling that surface art and archival collections in the open web. A longtime Wikipedia administrator and past U.S. National Archives Citizen Archivist of the Year, he bridges community governance and institutional strategy to make large cultural datasets more discoverable and reusable.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Springbrook High SchoolBS, MS Computer Science, BS, MS Computer Science at Columbia University
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Github Skills (48)
scheduler9
python9
machine-learning9
automation9
orchestration8
image-text8
mlops8
etl8
apache8
workflow-engine8
data-engineering8
wikipedia8
data-science8
airflow7
elt7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
fuzheado/wikiapiconnector
Dec 2021 - Dec 2023
Contributions:17 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
fuzheado/jupyterkg
May 2021 - Jun 2021
Jupyter Widgets interface for Wikidata knowledge graphs
Contributions:34 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 22 days
jupyter-widgetknowledge-graphwikidata
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