| Institution
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Resident’s name
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Date of report
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| National Library of Wales
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Jason Evans
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Jan 2015 - Permanent
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Sep 2018
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09/10/2018
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Projects delivered
Strategic Goal 1
Increase the quality and quantity of coverage of subjects that are currently underrepresented on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects
Progress
- 600 framed works nearly ready for upload to Commons and Wikidata
- 1600 Wikidata items for Welsh books created by Simon Cobb (Sum of all Welsh literature project)
- 17,700 Wikidata edits, including preparation for Framed works upload, improvements to Dictionary of Welsh Biography data and 550 items for owners of Aberystwyth ships with data compiled by NLW volunteers.
- 96 images added to Wikipedia articles as part of Staff Pic-a-thon event.
- Established collebrative campaign with CILIP Wales to get people to add images of their Local Library to Commons.
Events
| Event
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Date and Duration
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Location
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No. of Attendees
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Usernames
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Name of trainers
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| Staff Pic-a-thon
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27/09/2018 for 2 hours
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National Library of Wales
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7
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See event page
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Jason Evans
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Partnership interactions
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| Organizing Digital Humanities edit-a-thon with Exeter University
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26/9/2018 30 min
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Exeter University
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(Phones call)
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Jason Evans, Emma Sherriff
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event info
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Data Uploads
- --- Welsh Biography birth dates
- --- Welsh Biography birth locations
- Created items for ---- Ship owners (Aberystwyth shipping record data)
- BaGLAMa (page views for Wikipedia articles containing images from National Library of Wales)
- Aug – Page Views - 13,220,049
- GLAMorous (Percentage of Commons files used on Wikimedia projects)
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Sept 17th) - 66.51%
Strategic Goal 2
Support the development of open knowledge in the UK, by increasing the understanding and recognition of the value of open knowledge and advocating for change at an organisational, sectoral and public policy level
Progress
- Welsh Wikipedia user group meeting
- Meeting with Welsh Assembly staff and minister (with others) to discuss future provisions/needs of the Welsh language
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| Welsh Wikipedia User Group 2nd meeting
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7/8/2018 - 2 hours
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Cardiff Bay
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Jason Evans, Dafydd Tudur, Robin Owain, Aaron Morris and others.
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| Welsh Government Meeting, Welsh language infrastructure
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10/8/2018 - 1 hour
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Welsh Gov
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Cardiff Bay
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Jason Evans and others
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Strategic Goal 3
To support the use of the Wikimedia projects as important tools for education and learning in the UK
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Volunteer projects
62 hours logged (excludes visiting scholars)
- 5 Volunteers are currently working on translating English articles to Welsh. 65 articles have been created to date.
- Total articles created this month - 0
More information about projects held with the NLW volunteer team can be found here
Projects in development
- Dictionary of Welsh Biography - A request for funding is being considered by the library to contract a third party developer to create a bespoke interface/timeline to visualize and explore the Dictionary of Welsh Biography. The interface would be powered by Wikidata and images from Wiki Commons and would link to Dictionary of Welsh Biography and Wikipedia content. This would cement the libraries commitment to contributing to Wikimedia projects and making use of Wikimedia services and content to develop its own innovative online infrastructure.
- The sum of All Welsh literature - This project will see the creation of Wikidata items for every piece of Welsh literature in our catalogues. (around 350,000)
Historic statistics
- BaGLAMa (page views for Wikipedia articles containing images from National Library of Wales)
- July – Page Views - 13,125,805.
- Aug – Page Views - 13,245,583
- Sep – Page Views - 13,773,939
- Oct – Page Views - 15,041,258
- Nov – Page Views - 15,705,146
- Dec – Page Views - 16,190,426
- Jan – Page Views - 14,819,919
- Feb – Page Views - 13,346,353
- March – Page Views - 15,280,661
- April – Page Views - 14,967,649
- May – Page Views - 15,639,250
- June – Page Views - 12,941,034
- July – Page Views - 13,624,765
- Aug – Page Views - 13,220,049
- GLAMorous (Percentage of Commons files used on Wikimedia projects)
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Sept 5th ) - 50.75%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Oct 2nd ) - 51%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Oct 31st ) - 52.14%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Dec 1st ) - 52.59%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Jan 19th ) - 52.58%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Feb 1 ) - 52.58%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (March 5 ) - 52.55%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (April 3 ) - 52.58%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (May 9 ) - 52.79%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (June 12 ) - 52.83%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (July 17 ) - 66.61%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (August 24th) - 66.40%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Sept 17th) - 66.51%