User:Jason.nlw/4 Month Report

''' WiR at the National Library of Wales. 4 Month Report '''

Accounts created
7 new accounts (4 Women) were created as part of a Public Edit-a-thon on WWI (Gallipoli) held at the National Library on the 23rd of April. 12 attended.


 * User:Einion Gruffudd
 * User:BerianRE
 * User:Aberlleiniog
 * User:Sian Bowyer
 * User:Gwelystwyth
 * User:HamII
 * User:DaveGutfo

4 new accounts (3 Women) were created as part of a closed Edit-a-thon on Women in Science held at Swansea Medical School as part of their Athena Swan Charter. 5 attended.


 * User:Rhiwgoch
 * User:annaseager
 * User:ldwhitmore1993
 * User:déantús

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

28 images uploaded to Commons (Details below)and attributed to ‘’Peoples Collection Wales’’ as part of a pilot project. These uploads can be monitored via Category:Uploaded by Peoples Collection Wales


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


 * February- Page Views - 51,330
 * March- Page Views - 70,996
 * April- Page Views - 186,973


 * 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%
 * Percentage of images used in a Wiki (May 19th) - 11.7%

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. 4th month Outcomes:


 * 12 people attended the WWI, Gallipoli Editathon at the National Library of Wales on the 23rd of April. 3 new articles were created (in Welsh) and 8 were significantly improved. More details can be found at User:Jason.nlw/WWI Gallipoli Edit-a-thon


 * 5 people (including 4 woman) attended Swansea University’s Women in Science, Athena Swan Edit-a-thon held at Swansea University on the 18th of May . 7 new articles were created. More details can be found on the  event page


 * Visited the Millennium Stadium and been allocated an event manager for the Rugby World Cup Edit-a-thon on the 7th of September. The Welsh Rugby Union has also agreed to help promote the event.
 * Attended CILIP Wales 2015 conference in Swansea in order to network and promote my work as WiR at the National Library. A display and pamphlets were available to delegates alongside information on other NLW Digital projects.


 * Talks are underway with Gwent County Archives who have asked to host a local history Edit-a-thon later this year.
 * Swansea University’s ‘’Women, History and Law’ team will visit the NLW for a ‘’Welsh Law’’ Edit-a-thon in September/October. Possibly September 25th.


 * Wikidata Volunteers. Several volunteers remain active in this area although most of the original 13 who received training have not continued. Those continuing are receiving continual support.


 * Wikipedia Volunteers. A group of 3-4 NLW volunteers are receiving weekly catch up sessions on editing Wikipedia and continue to make regular edits.

Upcoming events

 * The Laws of Hywel Dda (Welsh law) Edit-a-thon (25 September tbc) - 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 Swansea University.


 * Y Wladfa Cymraeg (The Welsh Colony) Edit-a-thon and ‘’Bring along’’ (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. Attendees will also be invited to bring relevant arrive material/objects to be scanned by Peoples Collection wales, with the option to also share with Wikimedia Commons. This is a trial event aimed at building ties with Peoples Collection Wales, and gauging the Publics readiness to share their private collections on an open licence.


 * WWI, Edit-a-thon (Summer/Autumn 2015) ‘’’No movement from the Regimental Museum this month’’’ – 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 /Wikipedia editing (Weekly workshops) – flexible Weekly workshops aimed at helping all NLW volunteers who wish to contribute to Wikipedia. Usually held Thursday’s at 2pm

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. 4th month Outcomes:


 * No events this month. The focus this moth has been on public events and preparing/testing mass uploads with the GLAM Wiki Toolset

Planned events:


 * Picipedia (Pictathon?). (Summer 2015) A staff Edit-a-thon to add pictures to Welsh articles listed as needing pictures This event will be arranged as soon as the first large batch of images has been uploaded to Commons using the GLAM Wiki Toolset


 * 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.

4th month Outcomes:

The following High Resolution images of a historic Tithe map were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.


 * Standard resolution copy
 * High quality sectional version

These ‘’’19’’’ images were uploaded under the banner of Peoples Collection Wales (see ‘’Building bridges’’)

Category:Uploaded by Peoples Collection Wales

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)


 * A Formal request has been made to release a sample batch of pages from rare old book.
 * A Formal request has been made to release a handpicked sample of images/pages from Medieval manuscripts.

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.

4th month Outcomes:
 * The Peoples Collection Wales Management are still committed to changing their policy and to try and faze out the use of the Creative Archives license in favour of a Non-commercial CC license, with the option for people to also choose a Commercial License. At the Patagonia event on June 19th People’s Collection will offer its users a CC.BY.SA license for the first time. A selection of relevant images from the Peoples Collection website (but owned by NLW) have been released to Commons under the banner of Peoples Collection so that they can begin to measure the impact of licensing their images openly.


 * Policy – Since recent restructuring the Wikipedian in Residence role now sits within the newly formed Digital Access department. The exact structure and remit of this department are still being established but it will almost certainly fall on this department to implement changes to policy which will further promote open access and routine sharing of collections with Wikipedia and other public platforms.


 * 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. This work should be implemented during the next month.


 * ‘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. Public testing of the new website has now begun.