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WiR at the National Library of Wales. 30 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
- £40,000 grant from the Welsh Government to run a Wici-Health project has been accepted. The project will focus on community engagement, machine translation and gaining access to existing content in order to improve health information on the Welsh Wikipedia. On 23rd of June Robin Owain, Dafydd Tudur and I met to discuss our strategy for delivering the project
- 11 attended the General Election edit-a-thon held at the National Library on the 21st of June.
Accounts created
Image statistics
- 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
- June 28-29th LODLAM summit in Venice. Pitched and delivered a 1 hour session for 30 people on using Wikidata in Libraries, Archives and Museums.
- July 4-5th Train the Trainer course in Edinburgh.
- July 6th – Celtic Knot. Delivered a Key note on the future of the Welsh Wikipedia for 60 people.
- July 6th – Celtic Knot. Delivered 1 hour Wikidata workshop with Lea Lacroix for 15 people.
- July 7th – attended a Wikimedia UK – Wikimedian meet up event.
- July 12-14th – Delivered a 20 minute talk for 20 people on Wikimedia and working with Art Libraries at the ARLIS UK & Iireland Annual conference in Dublin.
- NLW has made the Wikimedia post a permanent, fully funded position, embedded within the digital access team.
- The Business Case for increased Open Access is COMPLETE and is being reviewed by a interdepartmental task force following a formal presentation to the senior management team. The document will them be made available more widely on an open licence.
- A case study into working with Wikimedia UK has been completed and will feature in an upcoming book on open access. More info here
- Working to co-author a chapter on Volunteer engagement with Wikipedia in Libraries, with Alex Stinson for a book being prepared by OCLC.
- Final report for Wikimedia Residency has been drafted and will be available soon.
Staff Workshops and Events
Nothing to report
Volunteer projects
82 hours logged (excludes visiting scholars)
- 4 Volunteers are now working on the Dictionary of Welsh Biography project, creating stub articles using entries from DWB as a source. 318 articles have been created to date.
More information about projects held with the NLW volunteer team can be found here
Media/Blogs
- Nothing to report
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 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. You can see more here
- Using Wikipedia to translate content as part of individual assignments is being trialed on the Welsh translation course at Aberystwyth University. A 4000 word translation of an English article will be uploaded to CY Wicipedia by one of the students soon.
Upcoming events
- 20 July - Volunteer training at NLW
- 21 July – Presentation on Wiki-Health to Library Board
- 9-13 Aug – Wikimania, Montreal – Lightning talk at Wiki:MED and Poster showcase
- 5 September – Menter Iaith Cymru meeting/training at NLW
- 7 September – Meeting with WJEC about providing open access to Welsh language teaching resources. Cardiff
- 28 September – Swansea University Edit-a-thon. (Trainer)
- 2 October – Nursing edit-a-thon, Cardiff – with Wellcome Trust.
- 28-29 October – Wikidata Con. Berlin (Posiible)
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:
- 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.
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
- Mar – Page Views - 16,227,446
- Apr – Page Views - 16,739,458
- May – Page Views - 17,180,421
- June – Page Views - 14,829,572
- 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%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (April 19th ) - 50.69%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (May 22nd ) - 50.70%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Jun 19th ) - 50.71%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Jul 19th ) - 50.74%