User:Jason.nlw/National Wikimedian/Month 25

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Institution Resident’s name Residency period Period Covered Date of report
National Library of Wales Jason Evans Jan 2015 - Permanent August 2019 06/09/2019

NOTE: Annual leave all month apart from events

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

  • Wikipedia drop in session at National Eisteddfod
  • Attended Wikimania Hackathon and worked on improving Welsh labels in Wikidata.
  • Agreed funding for Simon Cobb to develop Welsh Literature data as part of WikiLlên prosiect
Events
Event Date and Duration Location No. of Attendees Usernames Name of trainers
Eisteddfod drop-in session 6/8/19 Llanrwst 1 Jason
Partnership interactions
Activity/Purpose of Meeting Date and Duration Institute Location Names of Attendees Links

Data Uploads

  • No uploads this month


BaGLAMa (page views for Wikipedia articles containing images from National Library of Wales)
  • August- Page Views - 14,886,795
GLAMorous (Percentage of Commons files used on Wikimedia projects)
  • Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Sept 3rd) - 67.49%


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 of Wikidata for bibliographic data at Wikimania 2019
  • Presentation on use of Wikidata at NLW for 'Wikidata in Libraries' meeting in Stockholm


Events
Event Date and Duration Location No. of Attendees Usernames Links
Wikimania (Presentation) 16-18/8/2019 Stockholm, Sweden 20 Slides
Europeana Wikidata in Libraries meeting (Presentation) 19/8/2019 Stockholm, Sweden 25
Partnership interactions
Activity/Purpose of meeting Date and Duration Institution Location Name of Attendees Links


Strategic Goal 3

To support the use of the Wikimedia projects as important tools for education and learning in the UK

Progress

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

Volunteer projects

53 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 - 26


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. (Starting with the first 50,000)
  • 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
  • June - Page Views - 15,966,784
  • July - Page Views - 15,861,089
  • August- Page Views - 14,886,795
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 (June 2nd) - 66.10%
  • Percentage of images used in a Wiki (July 2nd) - 67.44%
  • Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Sept 3rd) - 67.49%