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Institution Resident’s name Residency period Period Covered Date of report
National Library of Wales Jason Evans Jan 2015 - Permanent Jan 2023


Projects delivered

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Aim 1 - Knowledge Equity

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Increase the engagement and representation of marginalised people and subjects

Progress

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  • Continuing early development of Wikibase for Welsh name authority. added 47k items so far and aligned/adopted official spelling of abt 5k Welsh place names. ALL labels are english & Welsh.
  • Submitted grant application for Welsh Giv funded Wiki project in 23/24 based around above database development plus events, Menter Môn partnership and batch of new BOT articles for cy Wiki.
  • Chaired meeting with Welsh language experts as part of scoping study into producing Welsh map of the world.
Events
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Event Date and Duration Location No. of Attendees Usernames Name of trainers
Partnership interactions
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Activity/Purpose of Meeting Date and Duration Institute Location Names of Attendees Links
Chaired meeting with Welsh language experts as part of scoping study into producing Welsh map of the world. 19/1 1h:30 mins Welsh Gov, Cardiff Uni, Welsh Language Commissioner, WMUK, Bangor University online Jason Evans, Robin Owain, Dylan Foster Evans, Eleri James, Geraint Williams, Carl Morris, Wyn, Llyr ap Dafydd, Delyth Prys, Ben Proctor

Data Uploads

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  • Nothing to report this month
BaGLAMa (page views for Wikipedia articles containing images from National Library of Wales)
  • Jan Page Views - TBC (Baglama not updated since Nov?)
GLAMorous (Percentage of Commons files used on Wikimedia projects)
  • Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Feb 03 2023) - 83.23%

Aim 2 - Digital Literacy

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Work with partners to develop digital, data and information literacy through Wikimedia

Progress

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  • Meeting with NAWG - Name authority working group, exploring how to utilize Wikidata for name authority in libraries. Agreed to give talk, and support funding bids (US and UK based)
  • 12 week student placement started (University of Maryland) exploring the use of Wikidata to tag images in crowd sourcing projects.
  • Agreed to hold in person training for teachers and students of Brechfa Primary Schools for their work with Wikipedia as part of the new Welsh curriculum. Dates TBC.
  • Attended LD4 Wikibase working hour
Events
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Event Date and Duration Location No. of Attendees Usernames Links
Partnership interactions
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Activity/Purpose of Meeting Date and Duration Institute Location Names of Attendees Links
Meeting with NAWG - Name authority working group, exploring how to utilize Wikidata for name authority in libraries. Agreed to give talk, and support funding bids (US and UK based) 20/1/2023

1 hour

Many online Jason Evans and others
Meeting with Amelia, to do induction for her student placement at NLW 24/1/2023

45 min

University of Maryland online Jason Evans, Amelia Eldridge
1 new Wikipedia volunteer trained 31/1/2023

1 hour

n/a Online Jason Evans, Rowan
LD4 Wikibase working hour. To improve my knowledge of Wikibase development and roadmap 17/1/2023

1 hour

LD4 Online Jason Evans.....
Meeting with NLW volunteer team about new Wikidata based image tegging projects 19/1/2023

30 min

NLW online NLW staff

Volunteer projects

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Volunteer hours TBC (excludes visiting scholars)

  • IIIF Image tagging project. Images completed this month:19 - (6868 total)
1 New articles this month
  1. Ceredigion Archives


More information about projects held with the NLW volunteer team can be found here

Aim 3 - Advocacy

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Create changes in policy and practice that enable open knowledge to flourish

Progress

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  • Submitted proposal for talk at IIIF conference 2023 (Wikidata and IIIF)
  • Early talks with Aberysywth University about supporting an upcoming project using Wikidata
  • Agreed to give talk to Welsh DIS students on Open Access and Wikimedia on March 27th
  • Continue to work with Open University on Wikidata event with Welsh County Archives in the spring
Events
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Event Date and Duration Location No. of Attendees Usernames Links
Partnership interactions
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Acivity/Purpose of Meeting Date and Duration Institute Location Names of Attendees Links

Projects in development

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  • Welsh Name Authority Wikibase project
  • Brechfa Schools community project
  • Welsh parish records on Wikidata project

Press/Media about the residency

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Historic statistics

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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
  • June - Page Views - 16,955,414
  • July - Page Views - 16,677,277
  • August - Page Views - 18,406,652
  • Sept - Page Views - 16,917,314
  • Oct - Page Views - 17,771,866
  • Nov- Page Views - 18,022,032
  • Dec- Page Views - 18,181,096
  • Jan- Page Views - 17,487,831
  • Feb- Page Views - 15,624,291
  • Mar- Page Views - 15,417,534
  • April Page Views - 15,106,727
  • May Page Views - 14,237,104
  • June Page Views - 13,603,833
  • July Page Views - 12,873,475
  • Aug Page Views - 13,702,950
  • Sept Page Views - 18,513,083
  • Oct Page Views - 15,739,484
  • Nov Page Views - 17,128,325
  • Dec Page Views - TBC
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%
  • Percentage of images used in a Wiki (July 7) - 83.00%
  • Percentage of images used in a Wiki (June 2) - 83.03%
  • Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Sept 2) - 83.03%
  • Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Oct 2) - 83.05%
  • Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Nov 8) - 83.04%
  • Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Dec 1) - 83.05%
  • Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Jan 06) - 83.06%
  • Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Jan 31) - 83.05%
  • Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Mar 2) - 83.21%
  • Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Apr 5) - 83.27%
  • Percentage of images used in a Wiki (May 06) - 83.27%
  • Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Jun 08) - 83.25%
  • Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Jul 11) - 83.25%
  • Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Jul 30) - 83.4%
  • Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Jun 30) - 83.26%
  • Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Sept 01) - 83.25%
  • Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Nov 01) - 83.24%