| 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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April 2021
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05/05/2021
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Projects delivered
Aim 1 - Knowledge Equity
Increase the engagement and representation of marginalised people and subjects
Progress
- 700+ portrait images uploaded to Commons and Wikidata
- Planning Wiki Loves Earth, Wales event with Robin, for June
Events
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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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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 Robin and Gwen from Snowdownia National Park about WLE
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19 April, 30 min
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Snowdonia National Park
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Zoom
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Jason Evans, Robin Owain, Gwen
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Data Uploads
- 700 images added to Welsh Portraits Collection on Commons
- Wikidata items created for all 700 images and approx. 100 supporting items for artists and sitters
- BaGLAMa (page views for Wikipedia articles containing images from National Library of Wales)
- April - Page Views - 19,825,051
- GLAMorous (Percentage of Commons files used on Wikimedia projects)
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (May 5) - 83.10%
Aim 2 - Digital Literacy
Work with partners to develop digital, data and information literacy through Wikimedia
Progress
- Working with Ennyn Cymru on a grant application for creative reuse of open content in schools to educate about fake news
- Grant proposal submitted for collaborative project with Menter Iaith Mon and OSM Cymru which would include edit-a-thons and Wikidata events
- Meeting with Dr Jonathan Morris of Cardiff Uni about AI project to summarize Welsh language text. Training the AI using Welsh Wikipedia articles.
Events
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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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Partnership interactions
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Date and Duration
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Institution
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Location
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Name of Attendees
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Links
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| Meeting with Dr Jonathan Morris, Cardiff Uni about project to shorten Welsh language text. Training using Welsh Wicipedia
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22/4/21 45 min
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Cardiff Uni
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Online
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Jason Evans, Dr Jonathan Morris
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| Ennyn Cymru prosiect meeting with HWB team (Welsh Gov)
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12/4/21 1 hour
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HWB
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Online
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Jason Evans, Elin Crowley & NIcky Arscott (Ennyn), Calum Vennard (HWB)
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Volunteer projects
Volunteer hours TBC (excludes visiting scholars)
- IIIF Image tagging project. Images completed this month:249 - (5204 total)
- 0 Volunteers are currently working on writing Dictionary of Welsh Biography articles. 361 articles have been created to date.
- Total articles created this month - 8
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
- Attended OPENUK ambassadors meeting
- Submitted proposal for Arctic Knot conference
- Published an impact assesment for the Wicipics project
Events
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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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Partnership interactions
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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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| OPENUK ambassadors meetup
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27/4/21
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OPENUK
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online
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Amanda Brock (CEO) and ambassadors
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Projects in development
- Wikidata OSM project
- Welsh biographies education project
- Fake News project (Supplying open content)
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
- Sept - Page Views - 17,642,258
- Oct - Page Views - 21,254,555
- Nov - Page Views - 22,162,779
- Dec - Page Views - 20,811,729
- Jan - Page Views - 19,532,109
- Feb - Page Views - 18,251,408
- Mar - Page Views - 20,084,375
- April - Page Views - 19,825,051
- 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%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Nov 02) - 82.34%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Dec 08) - 82.37%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Jan 06) - 82.37%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Feb 02) - 82.38%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Mar 13) - 82.41%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (May 5) - 83.10%