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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 2018
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9/5/2018
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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
- 4900 Welsh portraits being prepared for upload to Commons and Wikidata
- 400,000 Welsh bibliographical records being extracted from NLW records to be shared via Wikidata with the help of our Wikidata Visiting Scholar
- 2000 Welsh descriptions added to wikidata items on Welsh villages
- secured open access to descriptions of 80 of the most important printed items at NLW for creating Wikipedia articles (en & cy)
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Data Uploads
- No new uploads this month
- BaGLAMa (page views for Wikipedia articles containing images from National Library of Wales)
- March – Page Views - 15,280,661
- GLAMorous (Percentage of Commons files used on Wikimedia projects)
- Percentage of images used in a Wiki (May 9 ) - 52.79%
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
- attended and presented at OER18, Bristol
- Interviewed on BBC Radio Cymru about reaching 100,000 Welsh articles
- TV Interview on 'Prynhawn Da'. S4C about reaching 100,000 Welsh articles and Welsh Wiki in general
- Leveraging Wikipedia, a new book on Wikipedia contains a chapter co-authored by me.
- Article by Jason Evans and Alex Stinson in American Libraries Magazine. 'Creating a community around open access'
- Plans for Celtic Knot 2018 are coming along nicely - Successful grant for scholarships, draft program complete and scholarship applications being accepted. Also planning a party on the night of the 5th.
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| OER 18
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18-19/4/18 for 5 minutes (talk)
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Bristol
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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
- 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 ALL Welsh books with associated printers, publishers and authors. You can see more here
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Volunteer projects
58 hours logged (excludes visiting scholars)
- 5 Volunteers are currently working on translating English articles to Welsh. 51 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.
- Welsh portrait Archive - around 5k images will be be shared on Commons and Wikidata with the help of key volunteers, and events will be held to encourage re-use of the content. The whole project will be run within the framework of the Europeana impact playbook in order to produce a case study assessing the impact of the various aspects of the project.
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
- 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%