User:Jason.nlw/3 Month Report

''' WiR at the National Library of Wales. 3rd Month Report '''

Accounts created
3 new accounts were created as part of a Public Edit-a-thon on Welsh Photographers held at the National Library on the 10th of April.


 * User:Gruffydd E. Jones
 * User:GMorgan91
 * User:Maldimoeto

Image statistics
3 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)


 * February- Page Views - 51,330
 * March- Page Views - 70,996


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


 * Percentage of images used in a Wiki (March 19th) - 7.29%
 * Percentage of images used in a Wiki (April 20th) - 10.2%

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. 3rd month Outcomes:


 * 16 members of staff at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies attended a talk on the role of a Wikipedian in residence and the advantages of contributing to Wikipedia. Friday 21st April. They have requested followup training or Edit-a-thon event.


 * 8 people (including 1 woman) attended the Welsh Photographers Edit-a-thon held at the National Library on the 10th of April. 13 new articles were created and 4 were improved. More details can be found on the event page.


 * Following a successful application to hold an Edit-a-thon at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff as one of their Community Events for 2015, the NLW has agreed to cover all costs (catering and equipment hire).


 * Talks are underway with The Regimental Museum of The Royal Welsh in Brecon, to hold a join event focusing on WWI later this year.


 * Y Wladfa Cymraeg Edit-a-thon will be an event held with Peoples Collection Wales. As part of this collaboration Peoples Collection will be inviting people to Scan documents, which can then be shared with Wikimedia if people agree to the terms of an open license. Early Photographs of Patagonia will be uploaded to commons from the Peoples Collection website in time for the event.


 * Initial discussions have taken place with Swansea University to co-host an evening of editing for medical students as part of the University’s work towards the Athena SWAN Charter. It is proposed that the event take place in May.


 * 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 have not yet taken place due to volunteers' other commitments.   Several volunteers remain active but follow up sessions are required.

Upcoming events

 * 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 (Summer 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 (June 19th 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 program of events to mark the anniversary.


 * Early Science Edit-a-thon (Under review due to limited interest) – 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/Autumn 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. Possibly to be located at The Regimental Museum of The Royal Welsh in Brecon.


 * Rugby World Cup Edit-a-thon – (September 9th 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. 3rd month Outcomes:


 * 1 member of staff attended the Glam Wiki Toolset training at Wikimedia UK, London on the 8th of April.

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.

3rd month Outcomes:

The following images were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons following requests from Library staff and others.


 * Early Oil Painting of Castell Coch, Near Cardiff
 * Two images by Welsh Photographer Gwyn Martin.

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. (According to NLW digitisation team, this collection is unlikely to be ready for upload during the period of the residency)


 * Other collections. Discussions are ongoing regarding the release of images of Medieval Manuscripts, early printed books 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.

3rd month Outcomes:
 * Following several meetings with the director of the Peoples Collection Wales project, they have agreed to offer a commercial (open) license in future, and to try and faze out the use of the Creative Archives license in favour of a Non-commercial CC license. It has also been agreed that the NLW will work with the project to upload any images licensed openly, directly to Wikimedia Commons. This Change in policy is a great breakthrough. Changes will need to be made to the Peoples Collection Website and no time scale has yet been given for implementing these changes.


 * 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 can take place now that new department heads are in post following lengthy restructuring.


 * 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.