| Institution
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Resident’s name
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Residency period
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Period Covered
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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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February 2019
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28/02/2020
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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
- 73 new Weklsh articles as part of the WiciLlên project
- Welsh History Hacathon held as part of WiciLlên project
- 161 images uploaded to Commons
- 400 new Wikidata Items and 52,000 edits for the Finding GLAMS project, and creating items for new commons images.
- All (as far as is possible) Welsh GLAM's are now in Wikidata!
- Agreed to provide training for an Art and Feminism ediathon in Machynlleth in March.
Events
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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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| History Hackathon
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11/2/20 - 5 hours
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National Library of Wales
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25
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see some of the outcomes on event page
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Jason Evans, Illtud Daniel, Michael Jones, Paul McCann, Bethan Rees
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Data Uploads
- 52,000 Wikidata Edits - mainly adding and improving entries for Welsh GLAMS, for the GLAM challenge as well as new items for the 161 new images on Commons
- BaGLAMa (page views for Wikipedia articles containing images from National Library of Wales)
- February - Page Views - TBC
- GLAMorous (Percentage of Commons files used on Wikimedia projects)
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Feb 28th) - 82.25% (Big increase due to increased use on Wikidata)
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 organizational, sectoral and public policy level
Progress
- Wikidata at NLW talk at Digital Past conference
- Filmed bilingual introduction to Wikidata video With Aaron Morris as part of WiciLlên project
- Confirmed Co-author of Europeana Impact playbook part 2, which will feature the Wicipobl project as a case study.
- Interview with IFLA on Developing partnerships to achieve global library goals
- Agreed to prepare Video Presentation for Wikidata Days in Lisbon in July.
- Agreed to do Guest Lecture on linked open data for DIS students. Aberystwyth University.
- Agreed to give talk on Wikidata at NLW to Cilip Scotland CIG Group.
Events
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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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Links
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| Digital Past conference (Wikidata round tripping talk)
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12/2/20 25 min
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Aberystwyth University
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20
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Partnership interactions
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Date and Duration
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Institution
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Location
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Name of Attendees
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Links
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| Discussing NLW Wikidata use and Wikipedia outreach work
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14/2/2020, 45 minutes
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NLS
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NLW
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Jason Evans, Gavin & Ines from NLS
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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
Progress
- Wales for Peace agreed and implemented move to open licence for their educational resources on HWB
- continuing work for Wici Addysg project
- Agreed terms with 'Mewn Cymeriad' educational theater company to work on the 10 education videos for the WiciAddysg project
- talk and Wikipedia training session for Aberystwyth Professional translation students.
- Supporting two Aberystwyth Professional translation students who choose the Wikipedia based assignment
Events
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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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| Wikipedia talk and training
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6/20/2020 1 hour
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Aberystwyth University
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10
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Jason Evans
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Volunteer projects
TBC (excludes visiting scholars)
- IIF Image tagging project. Images completed this month:1262
- 3 Volunteers are currently working on writing Dictionary of Welsh Biography articles. 361 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
- Wici Pics project. Proposal submitted to run a community photography and editing based project in partnership with Menter Iaith Món
- Dictionary of Welsh Biography Timeline project - Histropedia work is finished and just waiting on NLW web team to add embed on the website.
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
- Sept – Page Views - 14,177,965
- Oct – Page Views - 15,584,357
- Nov – Page Views - 16,389,647
- Dec – Page Views - 17,497,123
- Jan – Page Views - 16,351,473
- Feb – Page Views - 14,411,266
- March - Page Views - 17,446,348
- April - Page Views - 22,875,582
- May - Page Views - 19,199,789
- June - Page Views - 15,966,784
- July - Page Views - 15,861,089
- August- Page Views - 14,886,795
- September- Page Views - 15,460,532
- October - Page Views - 18,122,157
- November - Page Views - 18,371,278
- December - Page Views - 17,121,137
- January - Page Views - 16,032,445
- 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%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Oct 9th) - 66.55%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Nov 9th) - 66.58%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Dec 4th) - 66.62%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Jan 2nd) - 65.89%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Feb 24th) - 66.00%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (March 13th) - 66.03%%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (April 1st) - 66.04%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (May 2nd) - 66.08%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (June 2nd) - 66.10%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (July 2nd) - 67.44%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Sept 3rd) - 67.49%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Oct 4th) - 67.47%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Nov 4th) - 67.47%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Dec 3rd) - 78.04%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Jan 13th) - 81.94%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Jan 13th) - 82.3%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Feb 28th) - 82.25%