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Institution Resident’s name Residency period Period Covered Date of report
National Library of Wales Jason Evans Jan 2015 - Permanent Sept 2022 30/09/22

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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  • Uploaded batch of 860 Welsh places articles for Wicipedia Cymraeg
  • Meetings about Welsh place names with Welsh Gov and with Royal Commission on Historical Monuments of Wales
  • Planned Welsh translate-a-thon with Aberystwyth University
  • Assisting S4C to create Welsh language quiz app using Wikidata to build a question bank
  • Shared data with Brechfa schools for their Wiki based Welsh language project and agreed to provide in person training
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
Welsh Government meeting to discuss how Wikidata can help their work of

protecting and promoting Welsh language place names

15/9/22 - 30 min Welsh Gov Online Jason Evans, Llŷr ap Dafydd Jones
S4C and App devs meeting to plan provision of data from Wikidata

(Originally agreed to partner on this several years ago but funding only now approved)

14/9/22 - 1 hour S4C Online Jason Evans, Rhodri ap Dyfrig,

Daniela Antoniazzi, Dave Penney

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments of Wales meeting to discuss how Wikidata

can help their work of protecting and promoting Welsh language place names. With a focus on their List of Historic Welsh Place Names database

8/9/22 - 30 min RCAHMW Online Jason Evans, James January-McCann
Meeting with Mapio Cymru to plan Wikidata-OSM map development for latest project 12/9/22 - 45 min Mapio Cymru/Data Orchard Online Jason Evans, Carl Morris, Ben Proctor, David Wyn
Meeting with Aaron Morris to plan Wiki places project activities with schools 21/9/22 - 30 min Menter Môn Online Jason Evans, Aaron Morris

Data Uploads

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  • approx. 50 Welsh parish Wikidata items corrected/merged
  • 180 new items for Welsh parishes created.
  • Welsh label and description, and Genuki ID's added to all 1017 Welsh parish Wikidata items
BaGLAMa (page views for Wikipedia articles containing images from National Library of Wales)
  • Sept Page Views - TBC
GLAMorous (Percentage of Commons files used on Wikimedia projects)
  • Percentage of images used in a Wiki (Sept 30 2022) - 83.25%

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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  • Supporting NLW volunteers working on Wiki projects
  • Meeting with Lucy Hinnie on GLAM wiki workflow documentation
  • Agreed to 3 month placement for Libraries Post Grad student from University of Maryland to look at quality of Crowdsourced tags from Wikidata in our crowd sourcing platform
  • Planning project with Dr Chris Langley (Open University) to hold events for community and archive professionals aimed at developing Parish records resources on Wikidata
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 to plan potential project on Welsh parishes/parish registers on Wikidata 21/9/22 OU online Jason Evans, Chris Langley
Planning GLAM Wiki workflows 2/9/22 BL, WMUK online Jason, Lucy, Leah
Meeting to plan student placement 13/9/22 Maryland Uni online Jason, Amelia, Gwyneth (NLW volunteering lead)

Volunteer projects

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Volunteer hours TBC (excludes visiting scholars)

  • IIIF Image tagging project. Images completed this month:43 - (6744 total)
6 New articles this month
  1. cy:Stryt y Syfwr, Wrecsam
  2. cy:Stryt y Brenin, Wrecsam
  3. cy:Stryt y Rhaglaw, Wrecsam‎
  4. cy:Camfa'r Cŵn, Wrecsam
  5. cy:Allt y Dref, Wrecsam
  6. cy:Tafarndy Horse & Jockey, Wrecsam


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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  • Presentation on Wikidata for the Advisory Board of the Dictionary of Welsh Biography


Events
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Event Date and Duration Location No. of Attendees Usernames Links
Presentation on Wikidata for the Advisory Board of the Dictionary of Welsh Biography 20/9/22 20 minutes Online/Aberystwyth (Hybrid) 10
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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  • Wikidata - NLW authority records enrichment project
  • Brechfa Schools community 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
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 30 2022) - 83.25%