User:Jason.nlw/National Wikimedian/Month 6

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Institution Resident’s name Residency period Period Covered Date of report
National Library of Wales Jason Evans Jan 2015 - Permanent January 2018 1/2/2018

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

  • Assisted at Royal College of Nursing Edit-a-thon in Cardiff
  • Meeting with CILIP Wales about creating Wikidata for every library in Wales
  • 2700 Welsh Wicipedia articles created as part of Wici-Iechyd project
  • Wici-Iechyd (health) project continues. See the project page for more details
Events
Event Date and Duration Location No. of Attendees Usernames Name of trainers
Wici-Iechyd RCN Editathon 15/1 for 2 hours Cardiff – RCN 6 Alice White led the event, so she has the sign-up sheet and the stats belong to her! Jason Evans, Alice White (Wellcome)
Partnership interactions
Acivity/Purpose of Meeting Date and Duration Institute Location Names of Attendees Links
Meeting with British Heart Foundation about sharing content openly for Wici-Iechyd 11/1/18 for 1 hours BHF BHF offices, Sophia Gardens, Cardiff Jody Buttle, Communications and Engagement Manager
Meeting about working with Cilip to produce a list of all libraries in Wales and share via Wikidata 11/1/18 for 1 hours CILIP Cardiff Cental Library Kathryn Parry, Chair of CILIP Wales and Dave from 'Libraries Hacked'

Data Uploads

  • No new content this month
BaGLAMa (page views for Wikipedia articles containing images from National Library of Wales)
  • Dec – Page Views - 16,190,426
GLAMorous (Percentage of Commons files used on Wikimedia projects)
  • Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Feb 1 ) - 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

  • Talk about Wici-Health Project at RCN
  • Delivered a Welsh Wikipedia introduction session to Menter iaith
  • Lightening talk on Wici-Health at the Hacio'r Iaith conference
  • Working With Europeana to apply the New Impact Playbook to a Wiki project as one of the first 5 case studies.
  • Plans for Celtic Knot 2018 are coming along nicely.
  • Meeting with Terry Jackson about funding for Wiki projects as part of a larger grant application for digital resources for Tourism industry


Events
Event Date and Duration Location No. of Attendees Usernames Links
RCN Edit-a-thon 15/1/18 for 30 minutes RCN Cardiff 7
Hacio'r Iaith Conference 27/1/18 for 10 min Tramshed, Cardiff 30
Talk for Menter Iaith at their Workshop day on Welsh Wicipedia 9/1/18 for 30 min The George Hotel, Welshpool 10
Partnership interactions
Activity/Purpose of meeting Date and Duration Institution Location Name of Attendees Links
Discuss the use of the Europeana play book with Wikimedia project 19/1/18 30 minutes Europeana NLW (skype) Julia Fallon, Dafydd Tudur
Meeting to discuss potential Wiki collaboration as part of larger community interest project 24/1/18 1.30 hours This Week Media NLW Terry Jackson, Dafydd Tudur
First Meeting of Celtic Knot task fource 17/1/18 1.30 hours Wikimedia UK, Menter Môn, NLW NLW Robin Owain, Aaron Morris, (Elen, Elin Haf, Bethan - From NLW)

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
  • Planned talk with translation students at Aberystwyth Uni for Feb.
Events
Event Date and Duration Location No. of Attendees Usernames Name of trainers
Partnership interactions
Acivity/Purpose of Meeting Date and Duration Institute Location Names of Attendees Links


Volunteer projects

64.5 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
  • Dec – Page Views - 16,190,426


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%
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