User:Jason.nlw/National Wikimedian/Month 28
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| Institution | Resident’s name | Residency period | Period Covered | Date of report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Library of Wales | Jason Evans | Jan 2015 - Permanent | November 2019 | 03/12/2019 |
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
- 269 images uploaded to commons
- 0ver 130k Wikidata edits
- 15k Wikidata items for NLW books created to date.
- 70 Welsh Wicipedia articles created using open text from Gwales website
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discussing the possibility of Sharing data for the Welsh folk music archive on Wikidata | 6/11/2019 - 1 hour | NLW | NLW | Jason Evans, Nia Mai Daniel |
Data Uploads
- "120,000" Wikidata Edits - including 15k new items for Welsh Books, 2k PB Abery Photographs and 260 artworks.
- "269" Images uploaded to Commons. Mainly additional oil paintings, which can be seen here
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 organizational, sectoral and public policy level
Progress
- Gave talks at 3 conferences/events
- Dictionary of Welsh Biography timeline is close to completion
Events
| Event | Date and Duration | Location | No. of Attendees | Usernames | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Talk about Wikipedia and Wikidata for DIS students | 12/11 15 min talk + Q&A | NLW | 35 | ||
| CILIP Wales AGM/OPen Day | 21/11 25 min talk | Aberystwyth University | 30 | ||
| Welsh Translators conference | 26/11 25 min talk | Aberystwyth University | 25 |
Partnership interactions
| Activity/Purpose of meeting | Date and Duration | Institution | Location | Name of Attendees | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meeting with Lloyd Roderick about hosting Wikidata training for WHELF in Aberystwyth | 14/11 20min | NLW + University of Wales | NLW | Jason Evans, Lloyd Roderick | |
| Meeting with 'What Three Words' app staff to discuss use of Wiki text to help create Welsh version of the app | 19/11 30min | NLW + What 3 Words | NLW | ||
| Meeting with Kier Washington of Cardiff Uni to discuss Editathon events and assignments | 21/11 30min | NLW + Cardiff University | NLW | Jason Evans, Kier Washington, Dafydd Tudur | |
| Meeting to discuss a National Wikidata training program for librarians and library schools | 27/11 1 hour | NLW, CILIP and WMUK | SKYPE | Jason Evans, Jane Daniels, Daria and Lucy |
Strategic Goal 3
To support the use of the Wikimedia projects as important tools for education and learning in the UK
Progress
- Appointed a former teacher as a Wiki-Education officer for 9 months as part of our WiciAddysg project
- Consultation session with teachers about content and format of content required by students
Events
| Event | Date and Duration | Location | No. of Attendees | Usernames | Name of trainers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teacher consultation | 28/112 hours | Llangefni (Menter Món) | 13 | Jason Evans, Aaron Morris, Bethan Hopkins-Williams, Rhian Wyn Murphy, Sioned L. Thomas |
Partnership interactions
| Acivity/Purpose of Meeting | Date and Duration | Institute | Location | Names of Attendees | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Volunteer projects
91.5 (excludes visiting scholars)
- NO volunteers trained this month
- New project proposal accepted, to get volunteers to tag the location of things depicted in images shared on Wikidata, using IIIF. Data will be automatically stored in Wikidata.
- 2 Volunteers are currently working on writing Dictionary of Welsh Biography articles. 353 articles have been created to date.
- 4 Volunteers are currently working on miscellaneous projects
- Total articles created this month - 1
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 Timeline 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
- September- Page Views - 15,460,532
- October - Page Views - 18,122,157
- November - Page Views - 18,371,278
- 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%%
- 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%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Oct 4th) - 67.47%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Nov 4th) - 67.47%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Dec 3rd) - 78.04%