| 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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March 2019
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03/04/2020
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Projects delivered
Aim 1 - Knowledge Equity
Increase the engagement and representation of marginalised people and subjects
Progress
- Art and Feminism Editathon
- First 10 Welsh Wiki Articles drafted for Wici-Addysg project
- Wiki translation training Aberystwyth Uni Welsh Translation Student
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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| Art and Feminism Editathon
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4/3/2020
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Machynlleth
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6
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See dashboard event for more info
- Jason.nlw
- Nickyarscott
- Finipoo
- Elinvj
- Cassolotl
- Sazzers
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Jason Evans, Nicky Arscott
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Data Uploads
- No new uploads this month
- BaGLAMa (page views for Wikipedia articles containing images from National Library of Wales)
- March - Page Views - 17,115,317
- GLAMorous (Percentage of Commons files used on Wikimedia projects)
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (April 3) - 82.4% (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
- Assisted Aaron Morris in delivering Wikipedia and Wikidata training to representatives of all Menter Iaith organisations, so that they can begin engaging with their schools locally.
- Wikipedia game workshop for school children at Science event . Welsh Government, Cardiff
- Shared bilingual introduction to Wikidata video With Aaron Morris as part of WiciLlên project. CY, EN
- WJEC and HWB agreed to share selected educational resources on an open licence for the WiciAddysg project
- continuing work for Wici Addysg project
- In discussions with CILIP Wales about opportunities for librarians to work on Wiki based projects from home.
- Supporting two Aberystwyth Professional translation students who choose the Wikipedia based assignment
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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| Wikipedia Game (follow the blue links) session at Science event
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12/3/2020
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Welsh Gov Offices, Cardiff
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150
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n/a
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| Wiki training for Menter Iaith Staff
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10/3/2020
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Aberystwyth
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20
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n/a
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Volunteer projects
Volunteer hours TBC (excludes visiting scholars)
- IIF Image tagging project. Images completed this month:569
- 0 new volunteer trained this month
- 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
- BBC Radio Cymru radio interview about the use of Welsh in Wikidata
- Interview with BBC Wales about improving gender imbalance on Wikipedia. Also put them in touch with Robin and local editors
The following events have been cancelled or postponed due to Coivd-19
- Video Presentation for Wikidata Days in Lisbon in July.
- Guest Lecture on linked open data for DIS students. Aberystwyth University.
- talk on Wikidata at NLW to Cilip Scotland CIG Group.
- Talk at Wiki-Cite event in Cologne in May.
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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| Wikipedia talk and training
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6/20/2020 1 hour
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Aberystwyth University
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10
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Jason Evans
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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
- March - Page Views - 17,115,317
- 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%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (April 3rd) - 82.4%