User:Jason.nlw/2 Month Report

''' WiR at the National Library of Wales. 2nd Month Report '''

Accounts created
9 new accounts were created as part of a Wikipedia editing workshop for Library staff on the 17th of March. 6 of the new users are women.

• :User: Hywel Lloyd (Created on Welsh Wicipedia)

• :User: Hughes2015 (Created on Welsh Wicipedia)

• :User: Wtroughton (Created on Welsh Wicipedia)

• :User: Cyfrannu (Created on Welsh Wicipedia)

• :User: Nia Mai Daniel (Created on Welsh Wicipedia)

• :User: Arbrawf15 (Created on Welsh Wicipedia)

• :User: Morfyddnia (Created on Welsh Wicipedia)

• :User: Evansphoto1

• :User: Hilary Peters

13 new accounts were created at a Wikidata training session for the Libraries volunteer team including 8 by women.

• :User: michael.harrisnlw

• :User: keziah.garrat-smithson

• :User: lynne.moorenlw

• :User: mair.richards

• :User: robertjamesmorris

• :User: dave.greetham

• :User: tim.mckenna-gorham

• :User: lilian.evansnlw

• :User: rosemary.thomasnlw

• :User: nan.lloydwilliams

• :User: geoffrey.jonesnlw

• :User: gwyneth.ann.davies

• :User: alison.littlenlw

Image statistics
556 images uploaded to Commons (Details below). All uploads can be monitored via Category:Images uploaded as part of NLW - WMUK collaboration


 * BaGLAMa (page views for Wikipedia articles containing images from National Library of Wales)


 * March- Page Views - 51,330


 * GLAMorous (Percentage of Commons files used on Wikimedia projects)


 * March- Percentage of images used in a Wiki - 7.29%

Public Outreach
The objective is to hold a minimum of 6 public events or workshops (Edit-a-thons) during the course of the residency (12 months). Each event will have a target audience and a well-defined subject for editors to work within. 2nd month Outcomes:


 * Visited Ally Crockford and Sara Thomas, the Scottish Wikipedians, for a day of discussions about the work of the Wikipedian. I also met with Gill Hamilton of NLS to discuss the project.


 * Confirmed date for first WWI Edit-a-thon to be held at the National Library on the 23rd of April with a focus on the Gallipoli campaign. The event is part of the ‘Wales Remembers’ commemorations. I will also be attending the next meeting of the Welsh Gallipoli working group in Cardiff on the 20th of March.


 * A successful application was made to hold an Edit-a-thon at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff as one of their Community Events for 2015. The event will take place in early September with a focus on everything Rugby, just in time for the World Cup.


 * Laws of Hywel Dda Editathon. In addition to support from Dr Sara Roberts of cyfraith-hywel.cymru.ac.uk I am hoping to make this edit-a-thon a joint event with the Women Negotiating the Boundaries of Justice project team at Swansea University who have agreed to travel to Aberystwyth for the event.


 * Wikidata Volunteers. 13 Volunteers registered with the National Library received training on using the mix-n-match tool to add information from the Welsh Biography Online to Wikidata.  Supervised weekly sessions will now be held in order to support and encourage the volunteers continued support.

Upcoming events

 * Introductory Presentation (March 24th) – Staff of the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies have invited me to present a lunch time lecture.


 * Welsh Photographers edit-a-thon (April 10th) – This edit-a-thon ties in with the launch of a major exhibition at NLW on the life and work of Phillip Jones Griffiths. The event will be held at the NLW with support from the Visual Images Curator. (Link)


 * WWI Gallipoli edit-a-thon (April 23rd) This event will be held at NLW and will focus on improving content relating to the Welsh role in the Gallipoli Campaign. With support from the Wales Remembers  team and academics/students (Link)


 * The Laws of Hywel Dda Edit-a-thon (Spring 2015) - An event focused on improving content  relating to the laws of Hywel Dda and aspects of Welsh society under Welsh Law (e.g. Women’s rights). The event will be supported by Dr Sara Roberts, founder of  cyfraith-hywel.cymru.ac.uk  and Swansea University.


 * Y Wladfa Cymraeg (The Welsh Colony) Edit-a-thon (summer 2015) – Marking 150 years since the arrival of the first Welsh Colonists in Patagonia, this Edit-a-thon will be organised with Peoples Collections Wales who are running a programme of events to mark the anniversary.


 * Early Science Edit-a-thon (Summer 2015) – Organised to tie in with the launch of a major exhibition at NLW this event will focus on improving content related to early examples of scientific study in Wales.


 * WWI, Edit-a-thon (Summer 2015) – Drawing on contributors from the 1st WWI edit-a-thon the focus will be on all content relating to the Welsh experience of WWI. Location to be confirmed.


 * Rugby World Cup Edit-a-thon – (September 2015) – To celebrate the Rugby World cup we will ask Wikipedians and sports enthusiasts to improve content about the sport, the players and famous games. To be held at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.


 * Welsh Biography Online, Wiki-data project (Weekly workshops) –This project is aimed at ingesting Welsh Biography Online data into Wikidata so that it becomes part of the Authority Control script on Wikipedia. 13 volunteers have completed initial training.

Staff Workshops and Events
The objective is to engage with staff and to promote digital connections by inviting staff to learn more about Wikipedia and how to edit. 2nd month Outcomes:


 * 1 hour introductory presentation Held 20th& 27th of Feb 2015 – Separate presentations were delivered in English and Welsh. The talk focused on explaining the goals and aspiration of Wikipedia, the goals of a Wikipedian in Residence and the benefit of the collaboration to Wikipedia/Wikimedia, the NLW and the wider community. A total of 44 people attended.


 * Staff workshops. Held 17th of March 2015 – A workshop for staff do develop basic editing skills. Delivered in English and Welsh. A total of 9 people attended.

Planned events:


 * Picipedia. (Spring 2015) A staff Edit-a-thon to add pictures to Welsh articles listed as needing pictures


 * Staff Edit-a-thon. (Autumn 2015) All staff who take part in training will be encouraged to attend an Edit-a-thon, to edit topics of their choosing. The event will follow the conclusion of initial training workshops.

Digital collections for release
The objective is to identify and release digital archives to Wiki-commons, primarily for use in Wikipedia articles.

2nd month Outcomes:

The following digital collections were uploaded to Commons from the NLW Flickr archive using the Flickr2Commons tool.


 * 2 Photographs By Philip Jones Griffiths. These are the first of his photographs to appear on Wikipedia. Uploaded 24 February 2015.
 * 455 Geoff Charles Photographs. Pictures taken by the Photojournalist in Wales c.1939-1945
 * 27 Cased Photographs. Mostly 19th Century. Uploaded 9 March 2015.
 * 92 Early Swansea Photographs. Some of the earliest photographs ever taken in Wales including the first ever known photograph of a snowman. Uploaded 9 March 2015.

Collections identified for future upload:

A List of collections identified for upload has been approved by Library management. Around 20,000 images have been approved for release. It has been agreed to use the Glam Wiki toolset to upload further collections. Testing will begin in April.


 * Welsh landscape Archive - 5000 images. Typical examples include views of towns, castles, ecclesiastical buildings, manor houses, monuments, or innovative constructions like the bridge over the Menai Straits or at Pontypridd. Most images date from c.1750 to c.1850


 * P.B. ABERY Photographic Collection - 2000 images. Early 20th century images of mostly of scenes from the Breconshire/Radnorshire area.


 * Martin Ridley collection - 800 images (needs to be ingested first). Mostly South Wales Streets and industry. Late 19th – early 20th century


 * Welsh Portraits - 15,000 images (needs to be ingested first). This is the largest single Welsh portrait collection including examples of framed works, etchings and photographs. The collection includes portraits from the middle ages to modern times.


 * Other collections. Discussions are taking place regarding the release of images of Medieval Manuscripts and film and sound clips from our Screen and Sound archive.

Building Bridges
The objective is to affect changes to NLW culture, guidelines, policy and procedure in order to create a sustainable relationship with Wikimedia UK and Wikipedia and to promote the open knowledge ethos.

2nd month Outcomes:
 * Policy – Initial discussions have begun regarding the implementation of an Open Metadata Strategy at the NLW, which would include identifying and uploading to Wikimedia Commons as part of the digitisation workflow. More detailed discussions will have to wait until internal restructuring is completed and new department heads are in post.


 * Exhibitions - Discussions continue regarding the use of QRPedia codes in the upcoming Philip Jones Griffith exhibition. There is a strong commitment to the idea and the codes will be used to expand on information on info panels by linking to relevant articles.


 * ‘Cite on Wikipedia’ – A ‘Cite on Wikipedia’ button will be added to the Welsh Newspapers Online website as part of the website re-launch in May/June with the expectation that it will be added to our other websites as and when resources become available.