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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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May 2018
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02/06/2019
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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
- Working on detailed Wikidata for the Peniarth Manuscript collection (540 items), which now has UNESCO memory of the world status. Nearly ready.
- Working on Wikidata for Welsh publishers in preparation for Welsh Literature project - and successfully created NLW catalogue ID Wikidata property.
- Request made for High-Res image release of 600 framed artworks.
- Provided training for Translation student at Aberystwyth Uni who chose the optional Wikipedia translation assignment.
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Data Uploads
- No images uploaded this month
- 700 Wikidata edits - Mostly improving data relating to the Welsh Bibliography
- BaGLAMa (page views for Wikipedia articles containing images from National Library of Wales)
- May - Page Views - 19,199,789
- GLAMorous (Percentage of Commons files used on Wikimedia projects)
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (May 2nd) - 66.10%
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
- Wicipobl project Impact Report has been published
- Work continues with Histropedia on timeline for Dictionary of Welsh Biography
- Meeting with NLW marketing team about sharing more information about Working With Wikimedia through Library social media accounts and platforms.
- Presentation about GLAM wiki collaboration at Journées Wikimedia Culture et Numérique 2019 in Paris
Events
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| GLAM WIKI Presentation for WMFR
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24/5/2019 25 min
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Archives Nationales, Paris
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40
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| Discuss how to promote and share news of Wiki related work at NLW
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16/5/2019 1 hour
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NLW
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NLW
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Jason Evans, Elen Jones, Nia ap Dafydd
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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
- Submitted Grant application to the Welsh Government outlining a plan for an Education Pilot Project in Wales, aimed at improving resources for school children on Welsh Wicipedia.
- Wicipobl Impact Report highlights the value of using Wikipedia as a teaching tool.
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Volunteer projects
84 hours logged (excludes visiting scholars)
- no 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.
- 4 Volunteers are currently working on miscellaneous projects
- Total articles created this month - 0
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)
- Dictionary of Welsh Biography 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
- March - Page Views - 17,446,348
- April - Page Views - 22,875,582
- May - Page Views - 19,199,789
- 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%%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (April 1st) - 66.04%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (May 2nd) - 66.08%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (May 2nd) - 66.10%