User:Jason.nlw/19 Month Report
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WiR at the National Library of Wales. 19 Month Report
Projects delivered
Note: I was on Annual leave from August 1st – August 19th
Metrics
Accounts created
6 accounts were created as part of a Wales for Peace Wikipedia training session held at Cardiff University on July 20th.
Image statistics
- 0 images uploaded to Commons (See Digital collections for release for details). All uploads can be monitored via Category:Images uploaded as part of NLW - WMUK collaboration
- 0 images uploaded to Commons (See Digital collections for release for details). All uploads can be monitored via Category:Images uploaded as part of NLW - WMUK collaboration
- BaGLAMa (page views for Wikipedia articles containing images from National Library of Wales)
2015
- February- Page Views - 51,330
- March- Page Views - 70,996
- April- Page Views - 186,973
- May- Page Views - 178,917
- Jun- Page Views - 697,704
- Jul- Page Views - 2,306,570
- Aug- Page Views - 2,437,248
- Sept- Page Views - 4,075,081
- October- Page Views - 4,698,284
- November- Page Views - 6,588,820
- December- Page Views - 11,644,987
2016
- January- Page Views - 11,687,926
- February- Page Views - 12,632,817
- March - Page Views - 13,812,774
- April - Page Views - 13,912,372
- May - Page Views - 14,561,695
- June - Page Views - 14,641,717
- July - Page Views - 13,337,491
- GLAMorous (Percentage of Commons files used on Wikimedia projects)
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (March 19th) - 7.29%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (April 20th) - 10.2%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (May 19th) - 11.7%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (June 22nd) - 11.61%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (July 17th) - 11.21%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (August 19th) - 6.34%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (September 17th) - 7.62%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (October 20th) - 11.43%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (November 18th) - 12.58%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (December 17th) - 17.29%
2016
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (January 18th) - 12.89%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (February 24th ) - 13.59%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (March 18th ) - 14.21%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (April 25th ) - 28.38%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (May 18th ) - 37.37%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (June 17th ) - 42.01%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (July 21st ) - 50.02%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (August 17th ) - 50.13%
Objectives and outcomes
Public Outreach
The objective is to hold a minimum of 4 public events or workshops (Edit-a-thons) during the course of the residency (to September 2016). Each event will have a target audience and a well-defined subject for editors to work within.
19th month Outcomes:
- 20 July – Wikipedia Training session for staff and volunteers of the Wales for Peace project was held at Cardiff University. 6 people attended (see accounts created) and discussions about future collaborations were positive.
- 12 August - Article Placeholders. Following a consultation with the Welsh Wicipedia community and discussions with Lydia Pintcher and other Wikidata staff the Article Placeholders feature is now live on cy Wikipedia. It is hoped that this will make more information available in the Welsh language and encourage volunteers to translate Wikidata items into Welsh. Here is an example . I am considering holding an Editathon event to translate Wikidata items into Welsh
Education
The aim is to develop a model for taking Wikipedia into Schools and Universities and to hold 4 events with the education sector during the course of the residence (7 months)
- I have been working with the NLW education team to develop a Wikipedia based module for the Welsh Baccalaureate qualification which would provide students across Wales with a template for organising and running their own Wikipedia Edit-a-thons and part of the qualification. The challenge will sit alongside a number of different challenge and students must choose one to complete each year. NLW will provide support to students who take up the challenge. The proposal is currently being prepared for submission to the WJEC (Examining body). If accepted the scheme would be in place by the beginning of Autumn term.
- Discussions with Staff in the Welsh Governments Welsh Language department lead to interesting discussions about the possibility of providing Wikipedia training for Secondary School teachers via teacher training consortiums.
- Discussions with the Wales for Peace team about running Wikipedia workshops for school children in North wales this Autumn as part of their WWI remembrance program.
Volunteer projects
- The Wikidata Visiting Scholar is working on creating detailed Wikidata for 5000 Welsh landscape images already uploaded to Wiki Commons by NLW. You can see more here
- 3 Volunteers are now working on the Dictionary of Welsh Biography project, creating stub articles using entries from DWB as a source.
- Basic Wikidata has been created for 550 19th century ships registered at Aberystwyth, as a platform for future volunteer projects. A volunteer program to add more data, including a collaboration with Ceredigion County Archives and Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales is now being planned and organised, to begin this autumn.
More information about projects held with the NLW volunteer team can be found here
Upcoming events
- October 19th – I have been invited to deliver a paper on GLAM Wiki at MCG's Museums+Tech conference at Wellcome Collection, London.
- October 21st – Host Wiki Workshops as part of Wales for Peace Schools Conference, Caernarfonshire.
- Wikidata translation event – Autumn/Winter
Staff Workshops and Events
The objective is to engage with staff and to promote digital connections by inviting staff to learn more about Wikipedia and how to edit.
19th month Outcomes:
- Nothing to report
Planned events:
- Nothing to report
Digital collections for release
The objective is to identify and release digital archives to Wiki-commons, primarily for use in Wikipedia articles.
19th month Outcomes:
- Nothing to report
Collections identified for future upload:
- Framed Works – abt 600 images (needs to be ingested first – Progress is being made). All pre 1880 content shared by the NLW with the Public Catalogue Foundation for the BBC ‘Your Paintings’ project.
- Welsh Portraits - 5,000 images (needs to be ingested first). This is the largest single Welsh portrait collection including examples of framed works, etchings and photographs. The collection includes portraits from the middle ages to modern times. (Preparing this collection for upload has now become a priority for the NLW, and it is hoped we can upload before the end of the year – UPDATE : Work has begun on making this collection available. Hopefully the collection will now be ready for upload to Commons within the next couple of months
Building bridges
The objective is to affect changes to NLW culture, guidelines, policy and procedure in order to create a sustainable relationship with Wikimedia UK and Wikipedia and to promote the open knowledge ethos.
19th month Outcomes:
- Showcase timeline of NLW content in Wikidata was created by the Histropedia team.
- Dictionary of Welsh Biography - Pitched to the Board of Trustees about collaborating with Wikipedia and incorporating wikidata/Wikipedia links into proposed new website. The Board have agreed to the proposal. They also agreed to offer future contributors the option of contributing on an open licence. Update: Discussions with Histropedia developers about possibly building an interface based on their platform are at an early stage
- Discussions with NLW management about releasing out of copyright digital texts to Wikisource are underway
- Continuing discussions with Tom Pert from The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales about sharing data sets via Wikidata, which will complement NLW data in Wikidata.
- Myself and Dr Dafydd Tudur have been asked to contribute a chapter to a book on open access, using the Wikipedia residency as a case study. The project is being managed by Fred Saunderson NLS
- Myself and Dr Dafydd Tudur (head of Digital Access) have begun writing a business case with a strong case for adopting an open access approach similar to the Rijksmuseum. Once completed the document will be made available to Wikimedia UK and presented to the National Library management team