| Institution
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Resident’s name
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Residency period
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Period Covered
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Date of report
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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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January 2019
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3/02/2020
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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
- 835 images uploaded to commons and Wikidata
- WiciLlén project article total passes 400
- WiciLlén edit-a-thon event held at the Welsh Books Council
Events
| Event
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Date and Duration
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Location
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No. of Attendees
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Usernames
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Name of trainers
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| WikiLlen Edit-a-thon
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10/1/20 - 5 hours
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Welsh Books Council
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10
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see event page
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Jason Evans
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Partnership interactions
| Activity/Purpose of Meeting
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Date and Duration
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Institute
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Location
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Names of Attendees
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Links
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| Meeting with Aaron Morris and Dewi Evans about creating Wikidata and educational videos for Welsh Wikipedia
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20/01/2020
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NLW
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Dolgellau
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Jason Evans, Bethan Hopkins-Williams, Aaron Morris, Dewi Evans
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Data Uploads
- c.10,000 Wikidata Edits - mainly adding Martin Ridley collection and other small collections already on Commons for the new website
- BaGLAMa (page views for Wikipedia articles containing images from National Library of Wales)
- January - Page Views - 16,032,445
- GLAMorous (Percentage of Commons files used on Wikimedia projects)
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Jan 13th) - 82.3% (increase due to increased use on Wikidata)
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
- Cilip webinar
- WHELF talk
- Grant proposal submitted to Welsh Gov
Events
| Event
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Date and Duration
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Location
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No. of Attendees
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Usernames
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Links
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| WHELF lecture
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23/1/2020 2 hours
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Aberystwyth University
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15
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| CILIP Webinar
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29/1/2020 1 hours
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NLW/CILIP
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25
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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
- Induction and training for new Wici Education officer
- continuing work for Wici Addysg project
- planning to work with educational theatre company on education videos
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Volunteer projects
104 (excludes visiting scholars)
- 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. Training session held and work has started
- 2 Volunteers are currently working on writing Dictionary of Welsh Biography articles. 361 articles have been created to date.
- Total articles created this month - 0
More information about projects held with the NLW volunteer team can be found here
Projects in development
- Wici Pics project. Proposal submitted to run a community photography and editing based project in partnership with Menter Iaith Món
- Dictionary of Welsh Biography Timeline project - Histropedia work is finished and just waiting on NLW web team to add embed on the website.
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
- December - Page Views - 17,121,137
- January - Page Views - 16,032,445
- 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%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Jan 13th) - 81.94%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Jan 13th) - 82.3%