| 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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December 2017
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19/1/2018
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Projects delivered
Strategic Goal 1
Increase the quality and quantity of coverage of subjects that are currently underrepresented on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects
Progress
- Wiki Health Editathon held in Cardiff with Wici-Caerdydd team
- Meeting with a student at Cardiff Uni about creating Welsh Health articles as part of her course work
- Meeting with Kathryn parry about adding all Welsh libraries to Wikidata
- Wici-Iechyd (health) project continues. See the project page for more details
Events
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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| Meeting about producing Welsh Wiki articles for a University project
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7/12/17 for 30 minutes
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Cardiff University
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The Heath, Cardiff
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Haf Ffion Mackey
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| Meeting about working with Cilip to produce a list of all libraries in Wales and share via Wikidata
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14/12/17 for 1 hours
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CILIP
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NLW
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Kathryn Parry, Chair of CILIP Wales
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Data Uploads
- No new content this month
- BaGLAMa (page views for Wikipedia articles containing images from National Library of Wales)
- Nov – Page Views - 15,705,146
- GLAMorous (Percentage of Commons files used on Wikimedia projects)
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Jan 19th ) - 52.58%
Strategic Goal 2
Support the development of open knowledge in the UK, by increasing the understanding and recognition of the value of open knowledge and advocating for change at an organisational, sectoral and public policy level
Progress
- Delivered an introduction to Wikidata session at Wikifying Welsh Assembly event
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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| Wikifying the Welsh Assembly
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5/12/17 for 30 minutes
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Cardiff Bay
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15
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Strategic Goal 3
To support the use of the Wikimedia projects as important tools for education and learning in the UK
Progress
- Supporting Cardiff University in holding an Editathon for International Women’s Day
- The Wikidata Visiting Scholar Has created Wikidata for many Welsh newspapers and Journals using data provided by NLW. He will now begin to explore creating Wikidata for early Welsh books with associated printers, publishers and authors. You can see more here
- Using Wikipedia to translate content as part of individual assignments is being trialed by 3 students on the Welsh translation course at Aberystwyth University, under my supervision.
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Volunteer projects
78 hours logged (excludes visiting scholars)
- 1 Volunteer is now working on the Welsh Journals project, creating stub articles for important Welsh Journals. 27 articles have been created to date*
- 5 Volunteers are now working on the Dictionary of Welsh Biography/Welsh Journals project, creating stub articles using entries from DWB or Welsh Journals as a source. 348 articles have been created to date.
- 4 Volunteers are working on translating English articles to Welsh (currently focused on the Wiki Health project ). 44 articles have been created to date.
More information about projects held with the NLW volunteer team can be found here
Projects in development
- Dictionary of Welsh Biography - A request for funding is being considered by the library to contract a third party developer to create a bespoke interface/timeline to visualize and explore the Dictionary of Welsh Biography. The interface would be powered by Wikidata and images from Wiki Commons and would link to Dictionary of Welsh Biography and Wikipedia content. This would cement the libraries commitment to contributing to Wikimedia projects and making use of Wikimedia services and content to develop its own innovative online infrastructure.
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
- 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%