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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Sept 2020
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30/09/2020
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Projects delivered
Aim 1 - Knowledge Equity
Increase the engagement and representation of marginalised people and subjects
Progress
- Another 4 short educational videos produced to be included in WiciAddysg Welsh articles bringing the total to 10
- 88 WiciAddysg articles now live on Welsh Wicipedia and HWB
- Wikidata created for every Welsh chapel (Welsh Chapels Database)
- Agreed to host online Translatathon for Aberystwyth University students
- discussions with Welsh and Celtic studies department at Cardiff University about setting Wici based assignments
Events
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Date and Duration
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Partnership interactions
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Links
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Meeting Welsh Translation studies course leader to discuss holding a virtual editing event
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8 Sept 30 min
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Aberystwyth University
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Skype
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Jason Evans, Mandi Morse
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Meeting with Welsh and Celtic Studies leader about giving a talk and setting Wikipedia based assignments
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15 sep 30 min
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Cardiff University
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Skype
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Jason Evans, Siwan Rosser
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Data Uploads
- no new images uploaded this month
- 6616 Wikidata items created/improved for Welsh chapels
- 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 30) - 82.35%
Aim 2 - Digital Literacy
Work with partners to develop digital, data and information literacy through Wikimedia
Progress
- Aaron Morris worked with young people to create a series of how to edit Welsh Wicipedia videos as part of the WiciAddysg project. I have now uploaded these to Commons.
- Wicipics project has started. This project will focus around a series of school and community events to improve content on local history. Wikidata will be created for historic local sites and used to identify, photograph and document them on Welsh Wikipedia.
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Volunteer projects
Volunteer hours TBC (excludes visiting scholars)
- IIIF Image tagging project. Images completed this month:75 - (2338 total)
- 0 new volunteer trained this month
- 0 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
- Gave talk at the CILIP metadata conference about Wikidata
- Gave 2 talks and Q&A to DIS students at Aberystwyth University about Working with Wikimedia
- Gave talk and took part in Discussions on WMF GLAM community call about IIIF implementation on Commons
- Working with Simon Cobb on session for the virtual Wikicite 2020 Conference
- IFLA presentation with Simon now available online
Events
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Date and Duration
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Location
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No. of Attendees
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Name of trainers
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talk at the CILIP metadata conference about Wikidata
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9/9/2020
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Online
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200
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2 talks and Q&A to DIS students at Aberystwyth University about Working with Wikimedia
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16-17/9/2020
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Online
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30
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talk and Discussions on WMF GLAM community call about IIIF implementation on Commons
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22/9/2020
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Online
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15
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Projects in development
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
- April - Page Views - 23,160,689
- May - Page Views - 20,648,862
- June - Page Views - 20,205,252
- July - Page Views - 20,087,895
- Aug - Page Views - 20,560,677
- 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%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (May 3) - 82.25%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (June 6) - 82.36%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (June 30) - 82.5%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Aug 08) - 82.5%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Sept 01) - 82.35%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Sept 30) - 82.35%