| 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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May 2021
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24/06/2021
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Projects delivered
Aim 1 - Knowledge Equity
Increase the engagement and representation of marginalised people and subjects
Progress
- Created new webpage for WLE Wales
- Created how-to video for WLE Wales
- Begin work on OSM-Wikidata project
- Chaired Wikipedia Translation podcast meeting for Edinburgh University
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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| Translation of Wikipedia podcast
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19 May 2021, 1 hour
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online
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6
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Jason Evans, Ewan McAndrew, Richard Nevell...
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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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| Dictionary of Welsh Biography meeting - to discuss plans for improving gender balance and representation of minority communities
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26 May, 30 min
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NLW, University of Wales
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Zoom
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Jason Evans & others
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Data Uploads
- 3000 Wikidata items created (with Welsh descriptions and labels) for hills, mountains and places in Wales
- 4000 Wikidata items improved. De-duping, adding cy labels, improving P31 statements ect...
- BaGLAMa (page views for Wikipedia articles containing images from National Library of Wales)
- May - Page Views - 19,748,145
- GLAMorous (Percentage of Commons files used on Wikimedia projects)
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (June 24) - 83.00%
Aim 2 - Digital Literacy
Work with partners to develop digital, data and information literacy through Wikimedia
Progress
- Meeting with UCL student about GLAM Open Access Impact project using NLW collections
- Grant application for OSM Wikidata project approved, including hosting editathons online and in schools
- Supporting OpenUK with work to encourage the energy sector to release open data
- Meeting with Lucy Hinnie about possible collaboration on Wikibase/Wikidata project
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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|
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Partnership interactions
| Activity/Purpose of meeting
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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 UCL student about GLAM Open Access Impact project using NLW collections
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5/5/21 30 min
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UCL
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Online
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Jason Evans, Scott Allan Orr, Irene Iriarte Carretero
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| Supporting OpenUK with work to encourage the energy sector to release open data
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7/5/21 1 hour
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OpenUK
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Online
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Jason Evans, Amanda Brock, others
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| Meeting with Lucy Hinnie about possible collaboration on Wikibase/Wikidata project
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17/5/21 30 min
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BL
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Online
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Jason Evans, Lucy Hinnie, Stella Wisdom
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Volunteer projects
Volunteer hours TBC (excludes visiting scholars)
- IIIF Image tagging project. Images completed this month:937 - (6141 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 - 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
- Attended OPENUK ambassadors meeting
- Submitted Video for Arctic Knot conference
- Submitted proposal (Panel) for National Libraries Now conference with BL about Wikimedians in Residence
- BBC Radio Cymru interview about the WLE contest in Wales
- Meeting with National Gallery about IIIF and Wikimedia talk
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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Partnership interactions
| Acivity/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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| OPENUK ambassadors meetup
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19/5/21, 30 min
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OPENUK
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online
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Amanda Brock (CEO) and ambassadors
|
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| BBC Radio Cymru interview about the WLE contest in Wales
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17/5/21, 10 min
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BBC
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online
|
Jason Evans
|
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| Meeting with National Gallery about IIIF and Wikimedia talk
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20/5/21, 30 min
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National Gallery
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online
|
Jason Evans, Anne McLaughlin
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| Flickr Commons members meeting about reviving the commons
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6/5/21, 1 hour
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Flickr Commons
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online
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Jason Evans, George Oates, others
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Projects in development
- 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
- May - Page Views - 19,748,145
- 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%
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (June 24) - 83.00%