| Institution
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Resident’s name
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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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July 2018
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24/08/2018
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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
- Supported Edi-a-thon at the EAHIL conference in Cardiff.
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 Edit-a-thon
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13/07/2018 1 hour
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EAHIL Conference, Cardiff
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15
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Jason Evans, Mashall Dozier, Donna Watson and Ruth Jenkins (all of Edinburgh Uni)
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Data Uploads
- Nothing to report this month
- BaGLAMa (page views for Wikipedia articles containing images from National Library of Wales)
- July – Page Views - 13,624,765
- GLAMorous (Percentage of Commons files used on Wikimedia projects)
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (August 24th) - 66.40%
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
Progress
- Wikimedians meet-up
- Celtic Knot conference
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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| Celtic Knot conference
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5-6th July 2018
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National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
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55
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Images and presentations
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Partnership interactions
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| Wikimedians Meet-up
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4/7/2018 - 2 hours
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WMUK
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National Library of Wales
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Jason Evans, Stuart Prior, Daria Cybulska, Ewan McAndrew, Hannah Evans, Simon Cobb, Delphine Dallison
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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
- The Wikidata Visiting Scholar Has created Wikidata for many Welsh newspapers and Journals using data provided by NLW. He will now begin to explore creating Wikidata for ALL Welsh books with associated printers, publishers and authors. You can see more here
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Volunteer projects
67 hours logged (excludes visiting scholars)
- 5 Volunteers are currently working on translating English articles to Welsh. 65 articles have been created to date.
- Total articles created this month - 14
More information about projects held with the NLW volunteer team can be found here
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.
- The sum of All Welsh literature - This project will see the creation of Wikidata items for every piece of Welsh literature in our catalogues. (around 350,000)
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
- 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%