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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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Sep 2018
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09/10/2018
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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
- 600 framed works nearly ready for upload to Commons and Wikidata
- 1600 Wikidata items for Welsh books created by Simon Cobb (Sum of all Welsh literature project)
- 17,700 Wikidata edits, including preparation for Framed works upload, improvements to Dictionary of Welsh Biography data and 550 items for owners of Aberystwyth ships with data compiled by NLW volunteers.
- 93 images added to Wikipedia articles as part of Staff Pic-a-thon event.
- Established collebrative campaign with CILIP Wales to get people to add images of their Local Library to Commons.
Events
| Event
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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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| Staff Pic-a-thon
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27/09/2018 for 2 hours
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National Library of Wales
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7
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See event page
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Jason Evans
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Partnership interactions
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| Organizing Digital Humanities edit-a-thon with Exeter University
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26/9/2018 30 min
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Exeter University
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(Phones call)
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Jason Evans, Emma Sherriff
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event info
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Data Uploads
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- 1153 Welsh Biography birth dates added to Wikidata
- 1000 Welsh Biography birth locations added to Wikidata
- Created items for 1060 Ship owners (Aberystwyth shipping record data)
- Created numerous items for Artists and sitters in preparation for Framed works upload.
- BaGLAMa (page views for Wikipedia articles containing images from National Library of Wales)
- Sept – Page Views - 14,177,965
- GLAMorous (Percentage of Commons files used on Wikimedia projects)
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Oct 9th) - 66.55%
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
- Phone call with Daisy Leitch of 5x15 Stories about Wikipedia - Gender equity events and activities
- Confirmed attendance of Glam Wiki 2018 conference, and 30 minute presentation with Dafydd Tudur
- Confirmed attendance of WikiCite 2018 conference (with scholarship).
- Invited to deliver presentation at the British Library on 7/12/2018.
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| Discuss possible gender equity on Wikipedia Campaign
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4/9/2018
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5x15 Stories
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Phone
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Daisy Leitch and Jason Evans
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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 continues his work on the Welsh literature data. You can see more here
- Agreed to provide training for Edit-a-thons and Cardiff University and Exeter University in October
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Volunteer projects
48 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 - 0
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
- Aug – Page Views - 13,220,049
- Sept – Page Views - 14,177,965
- 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%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Sept 17th) - 66.51%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Oct 9th) - 66.55%