User:Jason.nlw/National Wikimedian/Month 31

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Institution Resident’s name Residency period Period Covered Date of report
National Library of Wales Jason Evans Jan 2015 - Permanent February 2019 28/02/2020


Projects delivered

Aim 1 - Knowledge Equity

Increase the engagement and representation of marginalised people and subjects

Progress

  • 73 new Welsh articles as part of the WiciLlên project
  • 161 images uploaded to Commons
  • 400 new Wikidata Items and 52,000 edits for the Finding GLAMS project, and creating items for new commons images.
  • All (as far as is possible) Welsh GLAM's are now in Wikidata!
  • Agreed to provide training for an Art and Feminism editathon in Machynlleth in March.


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

  • 52,000 Wikidata Edits - mainly adding and improving entries for Welsh GLAMS, for the GLAM challenge as well as new items for the 161 new images on Commons
BaGLAMa (page views for Wikipedia articles containing images from National Library of Wales)
  • February - Page Views - 15,079,784
GLAMorous (Percentage of Commons files used on Wikimedia projects)
  • Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Feb 28th) - 82.25% (Big increase due to increased use on Wikidata)

Aim 2 - Digital Literacy

Work with partners to develop digital, data and information literacy through Wikimedia

Progress

  • Filmed bilingual introduction to Wikidata video With Aaron Morris as part of WiciLlên project
  • Wales for Peace agreed and implemented move to open licence for their educational resources on HWB
  • continuing work for Wici Addysg project
  • Agreed terms with 'Mewn Cymeriad' educational theater company to work on the 10 education videos for the WiciAddysg project
  • talk and Wikipedia training session for Aberystwyth Professional translation students.
  • Supporting two Aberystwyth Professional translation students who choose the Wikipedia based assignment
Events
Event Date and Duration Location No. of Attendees Usernames Links
Digital Past conference (Wikidata round tripping talk) 12/2/20 25 min Aberystwyth University 20
History Hackathon 11/2/20 - 5 hours National Library of Wales 25 see some of the outcomes on event page Jason Evans, Illtud Daniel, Michael Jones, Paul McCann, Bethan Rees


Partnership interactions
Activity/Purpose of meeting Date and Duration Institution Location Name of Attendees Links

Volunteer projects

136 (excludes visiting scholars)


  • IIF Image tagging project. Images completed this month:1262


  • 3 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

Aim 3 - Advocacy

Create changes in policy and practice that enable open knowledge to flourish

Progress

  • Confirmed Co-author of Europeana Impact playbook part 2, which will feature the Wicipobl project as a case study.
  • Interview with IFLA on Developing partnerships to achieve global library goals
  • Welsh History Hackathon held as part of WiciLlên project
  • Agreed to prepare Video Presentation for Wikidata Days in Lisbon in July.
  • Agreed to do Guest Lecture on linked open data for DIS students. Aberystwyth University.
  • Agreed to give talk on Wikidata at NLW to Cilip Scotland CIG Group.
  • Wikidata at NLW talk at Digital Past conference


Events
Event Date and Duration Location No. of Attendees Usernames Name of trainers
Wikipedia talk and training 6/20/2020 1 hour Aberystwyth University 10 Jason Evans
Partnership interactions
Acivity/Purpose of Meeting Date and Duration Institute Location Names of Attendees Links
Discussing NLW Wikidata use and Wikipedia outreach work 14/2/2020, 45 minutes NLS NLW Jason Evans, Gavin & Ines from NLS


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.

Press/Media about the residency

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
  • February - Page Views - 15,079,784
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%
  • Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Feb 28th) - 82.25%