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WiR at the National Library of Wales. 26 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 15 Welsh articles on Welsh pop music released on an open licence by Bangor University & Coleg Cymraeg Genedlaethol.
- 527 new articles Welsh Wikipedia articles created as part of the Wicipop project.
- 24 February – 5 a Wicipop Ediot-a-thon at Bangor University.
- 8 March – 9 people attended an Art & Feminism Editiathon at Cafi Alys, Machynlleth
- Professional Photographs of 55 Welsh bands released on an open license by S4C/Ochr1 with an agreement to share more as and when they become available.
- SAIN Record Company have agreed to release thousands of 30 second sound clips and album covers to Wikimedia Commons (Thanks to Robin Owain). National Library programmers are extracting the files from the Sain website ready for upload to Commons.
- 1 member of the screen and sound department at NLW has received training on editing Wikipedia so that he can improve and create articles as part of his work archiving and recording Welsh music and film.
- 2 new NLW volunteers received Wikipedia training and began working on producing Welsh language content.
- A student from Aberystwyth Universities translation course has agreed to translate the English language Wikipedia article on Breast Cancer into Welsh as her individual assignment. The work will include developing new Welsh terms for previously untranslated English words.
Accounts created
2 accounts created by members of the Library’s volunteer team.
4 accounts created as part of the Bangor Wicipop Edit-a-thon
7 accounts created as part of the Art and Feminism Edit-a-thon
- User:Margeryslater
- User:doodlewikki
- User:Sgwarnog123
- User:gabiashton
- User:Sarahglandyfi
- User:StephRobinsonmach
- User:alice.hs
1 account was created as part by a member of NLW staff.
Image statistics
- 55 photos of Welsh bands uploaded to Commons . Images were donated by Ochr 1 – a company that produces music based television shows for S4C.
- 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.
- working to co-author a chapter of Volunteer engagement with Wikipedia in Libraries, with Alex Stinson for a book being prepared by OCLC.
- Agreed to present on Wikipedia at the ARLIS (Art Libraries Society) conference in Dublin in July.
- Proposal for a talk at Wikimainia submitted here
Staff Workshops and Events
Nothing to report
Volunteer projects
77.5 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.
More information about projects held with the NLW volunteer team can be found here
Media/Blogs
- 20 February 2017 – Radio Interview – BBC Cymru, Rhaglen Rhys Mwyn, about the Wicipop Project
- 9 March 2017 - Welsh language article about the Wicipop project
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 data set 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.
- Using Wikipedia to translate content as part of individual assignments is being trialed on the Welsh translation course at Aberystwyth University
Upcoming events
- 25 March – Wicipop Edit-a-thon at Cardiff Museum
- 6 May - Llên Natur Edit-a-thon, Blaenau Ffestiniog.
- 11 May – CILIP Wales Conference, Llandudno.
- 12-14 June – ARLIS conference, Dublin.
- 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
- 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.
- An idea for running a project similar to Wicipop, but for health related articles has been submitted to the Welsh government for consideration.
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
- Feb – Page Views - 14,444,212
- 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%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (March 20th ) - 50.66%