User:Jason.nlw/National Wikimedian/Month 17

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Institution Resident’s name Residency period Period Covered Date of report
National Library of Wales Jason Evans Jan 2015 - Permanent Dec 2018 02/01/2019


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
  • WiciPobl (Wiki people) project begins.
  • 200 photographs of soldiers by D.C Harries added to Commons
  • Provided support for Ewan McAndrew's Tower Blocks upload
Events
Event Date and Duration Location No. of Attendees Usernames Name of trainers
Partnership interactions
Acivity/Purpose of Meeting Date and Duration Institute Location Names of Attendees Links

Data Uploads

  • 200 photographs of soldiers by D.C Harries added to Commons. You can view the collection here.


BaGLAMa (page views for Wikipedia articles containing images from National Library of Wales)
  • Dec – Page Views - TBC
GLAMorous (Percentage of Commons files used on Wikimedia projects)
  • Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Jan 2nd) - 65.89%


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

  • Presentation at British Library on leveraging Wikimedia in Libraries
  • Presentation for senior staff at NLW on Wikibase / linked data
Events
Event Date and Duration Location No. of Attendees Usernames Links
Presentation for British Library staff (x2) 7/12/2018 30 Minutes British Library, London 40
Partnership interactions
Activity/Purpose of meeting Date and Duration Institution Location Name of Attendees Links
Set out how Wikibase and Wikidata could be used to support the development of Linked data at the National Library of Wales 12/12/2018 for 4 hours National Library of Wales National Library of Wales Jason Evans, Illtyd Daniel, Scott Waby, Dafydd Tudur, Manon Foster Evans, Sara Weale, Sally Mcguiness, Bethan Rees, Camwy McDonald, Dafydd Pritchard, Morfydd Jones, Sian Pugh


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
  • Meeting with Aaron - Wikimôn to plan events in schools as part of WiciPobl project, to discuss how Wikidata could be used to teach coding and to discuss potential future projects with the Welsh Wicipedia and education.
Events
Event Date and Duration Location No. of Attendees Usernames Name of trainers
Partnership interactions
Acivity/Purpose of Meeting Date and Duration Institute Location Names of Attendees Links
To plan events in schools as part of WiciPobl project, to discuss how Wikidata could be used to teach coding and to discuss potential future projects with the Welsh Wicipedia and education. 11/12/2018 3 hours Menter Môn NLW Jason Evans, Aaron Morris

Volunteer projects

62 hours logged (excludes visiting scholars)

  • No new Volunteer was trained this month


  • 2 Volunteers are currently working on writing Dictionary of Welsh Biography articles. 351 articles have been created to date.
  • 5 Volunteers are currently working on translating English articles to Welsh. 76 articles have been created to date.
Total articles created this month - 12


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
  • Oct – Page Views - 15,584,357
  • Nov – Page Views - TBC
  • Dec – Page Views - TBC
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%
  • Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Nov 9th) - 66.58%
  • Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Dec 4th) - 66.62%
  • Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Jan 2nd) - 65.89%