Friends' Newsletter/2019/Issue 02

Welcome to the Summer Newsletter!

Welcome to the Summer newsletter!

Scotland

Scotland Manager Sara Thomas has helped release some images by Art UK of Scotland under Open Licenses, spoke at the Heritage Dot and CILIP conferences. She ran a number of editathons in June and July, on subjects like Scottish Lawyers, film in Aberdeen,

Wales

Robin Owain helped to release a Welsh database on liverwort mosses as part of the Llen Natur project, which will help create 300 new articles about plants in Welsh. Robin also started a WikiProject in participation with Arabic-language Wikimedians to add articles about the Middle East to Welsh Wikipedia, and has so far created 43 articles in Welsh. He also met the government's Welsh language Commissioner to discuss releasing content in Welsh on Open Licenses.

Robin wrote about Education in Wales for our blog and presented at the Celtic Knot languages conference.

Arron Morris Wici Mon project continued to train school children in Anglesey to edit Wikipedia.

Jason Evans

Jason has published a report covering his work for last month: https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/User:Jason.nlw/National_Wikimedian/Month_22

SG1

- Working on detailed Wikidata for Peniarth Manuscript Collection (540 items), which now has UNESCO memory of the world status. Nearly ready.

- Working with Wikidata for Welsh publishers in preparation for Welsh Literature project - and successfully created NLW catalogue ID Wikidata property.

SG2

- WiciPobl project impact report has been published: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Wicipobl_Impact_Report.pdf

SG3

- Submitted grant application to the Welsh Government outlining a plan for an education pilot project in Wales, aimed at improving resources for school children on Welsh Wikipedia.

Working with the music industry

Communications Coordinator John has been working with the Association of Independent Music