User:Jason.nlw/National Wikimedian/Month 19
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| Institution | Resident’s name | Residency period | Period Covered | Date of report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Library of Wales | Jason Evans | Jan 2015 - Permanent | Feb 2018 | 13/03/2019 |
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
- Planning a Welsh Translation event
- 287 articles created using data for Wicipobl project
- A total of 1500 articles being prepared for publication for Wicipobl
Events
| Event | Date and Duration | Location | No. of Attendees | Usernames | Name of trainers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Partnership interactions
| Activity/Purpose of Meeting | Date and Duration | Institute | Location | Names of Attendees | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Data Uploads
- No images uploaded this month
- 478 Wikidata edits - Adding Welsh langauge labels to items related to NLW collections and improving death dates and references for Dictionary of Welsh Biography data.
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
- Secured Grant from the MY-D Foundation in order to develop a Wikidata powered timeline for the Dictionary of Welsh Biography (Working with Histropedia)
- Meeting with Gwent Archives to plan Wikipedia community events
- Wikidata talk and Sparql Workshop at Hacio'r Iaith conference
- Radio interview for Radio Cymru about Wikidata and the History Hackathon
Events
| Event | Date and Duration | Location | No. of Attendees | Usernames | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Presentation and workshop at Hacio'r Iaith conference. | 9/2/2019 1 hour | Yr Egin (BBC) Carmarthen | 40 | ||
| Radio Interview about the History Hacathon planned for March 2nd | 25/2/2019 15 Minutes | Aberystwyth |
Partnership interactions
| Activity/Purpose of meeting | Date and Duration | Institution | Location | Name of Attendees | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meet to advise how to set up Wikipedia editing community events | 15/2/2019 | Gwent Archives | Ebbw Vale | Jason Evans, Rhiannon Phillips |
Strategic Goal 3
To support the use of the Wikimedia projects as important tools for education and learning in the UK
Progress
- ::* Meeting with Welsh Education department, of Welsh Government to discuss potential project to improve education related content
- The Wikidata Visiting Scholar continues his work on the Welsh literature data. You can see more here
- Presentation about the content translation tool for Welsh translation students at Aberystwyth University
Events
| Event | Date and Duration | Location | No. of Attendees | Usernames | Name of trainers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Content translation demo | 4/2/2019 | Aberystwyth Uni | 5 | Jason Evans |
Partnership interactions
| Acivity/Purpose of Meeting | Date and Duration | Institute | Location | Names of Attendees | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discuss idea for project to increase quality of Welsh content related to education on CY Wiki. | 15/2/2019 (1 hour) | Welsh Government | Cardiff | Jason Evans, Gareth Morlais, Ann Evans |
Volunteer projects
85 hours logged (excludes visiting scholars)
- 1 new volunteer trained this month
- 3 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.
- 3 Volunteers are currently working on miscellaneous projects
- Total articles created this month - 4
More information about projects held with the NLW volunteer team can be found here
Projects in development
- 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)
- Welsh Education pilot project.
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 - 16,389,647
- Dec – Page Views - 17,497,123
- Jan – Page Views - 16,351,473
- Feb – Page Views - 14,411,266
- BaGLAMa (page views for Wikipedia articles containing images from National Library of Wales)
- 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%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Feb 24th) - 66.00%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (March 13th) - 66.03%%