User:Jason.nlw/25 Month Report
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WiR at the National Library of Wales. 25 Month Report
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
Outcomes
- About 50 Welsh articles on Welsh pop music released on an open licence by BBC Cymru.
- 50 articles about the best Welsh Albums for the last 5 years released on an open licence by music Magazine Y Selar.
- Bangor University and Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol are releasing about 20 articles from an upcoming publication about Welsh music on an open licence.
- 248 new articles Welsh Wikipedia articles created as part of the Wicipop project.
- 8 February – 6 attended a demonstration of Wikipedia article translation tools. Staff and students of the Welsh Translation course at Aberystwyth University. Discussions lead to a commitment for the course to formally offer Wikipedia translation as an individual assignment on the course from September.
- 18 February – 15 people attended a Wicipop Editathon at the National Library of Wales.
- Professional Photographs of about 50 Welsh bands released on an open licence by S4C/Ochr1 with an agreement to share more as and when they become available. The Images will be uploaded soon.
Accounts created
10 new account created as part of the Wicipop programme
- User:Einion Gruffudd
- User:Albobryn
- User:Alison.nlw
- User:DAN GRIFFITHS
- User:SinSir75
- User:Cariaislinn
- User:Huw STEPHENS
- User:awensgiv
- User:Ocaradog
Image statistics
- 241 photos of Welsh bands uploaded to Wikimedia Commons from Flickr
- No NLW content added this month.
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
Outcomes
- The Business Case for increased Open Access is COMPLETE and has been shared with senior library staff ahead of a formal presentation to the senior management team and the Library Board. The document will them be made available more widely on an open licence.
- A case study into working with Wikimedia UK was been completed and will feature in an upcoming book on open access.
- Agreed to co-author a chapter of Volunteer engagement with Wikipedia in Libraries, with Alex Stinson for a book being prepared by OCLC.
- 15 February - 100 attended a presentation on using Wikidata at the National Library of Wales at the Digital Past 2017 conference.
- Agreed to co-present on Wikipedia in Libraries at CILIP Wales 2017 conference, with Robin Owain.
Staff Workshops and Events
Nothing to report
Volunteer projects
3.5 hours logged (excludes visiting scholars)
- A Wikipedia Visiting Scholar has been appointed to create Wikipedia content relating to influential Welsh Women. The project has been set up but has no outcomes yet and has not been officially launched. The Visiting scholar has yet to complete any work.
- 1 Volunteer is now working on the Dictionary of Welsh Biography project, creating stub articles using entries from DWB as a source. 150 articles have been created to date.
- 7 received training on researching and imputing data about Aberstwyth Shipping records in to spreadsheets, which will then be used to enrich existing Wikidata.
- 4 received training on translating content from English to Welsh. The volunteers will start working on translations in the coming weeks.
More information about projects held with the NLW volunteer team can be found here
Media/Blogs
Strategic Goal 3
To support the use of the Wikimedia projects as important tools for education and learning in the UK
Outcomes
- The Wikidata Visiting Scholar has completed his work to convert now created Wikidata items for every artist, printer and publisher associated with the Welsh Landscape Collection. You can see more here
- The Wikidata Visiting Scholar is nearing completion of an academic article examining the Welsh Landscapes dataset using Wikidata queries and visualisations.
- The Wikidata Visiting Scholar is beginning work on a new project to add all known historical Welsh publishers to Wikidata and connect them with existing Wikidata items.
Upcoming events
- 24 February 2017 – Wicipop Edit-a-thon at the Welsh Pop Archive at Bangor University.
- 4 March – Host session about Wikipedia at Plaid Cymru event in Newport.
- 8 March – Providing training at an Art & Feminism Edit-a-thon in Machynlleth.
- 11 March – Wicipop Edit-a-thon in Cardiff
- 6 May - Llên Natur Edit-a-thon, Blaenau Ffestiniog.
- 11 May – CILIP Wales Conference, Llandudno.
- 28-30 June – Lodlam Linked Open Data Summit, Venice.
- 5-6 July – Celtic Languages Wiki Conference, Edinburgh.
Digital collections for release
The objective is to identify and release digital archives to Wiki-commons, primarily for use in Wikipedia articles.
Collections identified for future upload:
- A fresh request has been made to upload handpicked Public Domain images from the NLW website. The request will be considered by NLW senior management on September 20th. If successful, uploads can commence immediately.
- 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. 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 : The collection is now ready to upload. However I am waiting for the Business case to be submitted in order to clarify what resolution images should be uploaded.)
Projects in development
- Wales for Peace Project – discussions with Wales for Peace project manager lead to discussions with the Lloyd George Museum in North Wales. A collaborative Edit-a-thon event is being discussed, with support from Peoples Collection Wales who can scan items from the Museum to be uploaded to Commons.
- 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.
- 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.
Historic statistics
- 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
- Aug – Page Views 12,581,735
- Sept – Page Views - 13,348,683
- Oct – Page Views - 14,163,202
- Nov – Page Views - 15,668,738
- Dec – Page Views - 16,003,695
2017
- Jan – Page Views - 15,751,167
- 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%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (September 19th ) - 50.69%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (November 24th ) - 50.62%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (December 13th ) - 50.46%
2017
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (January 23rd ) - 50.59%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (February 20th ) - 50.62%