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Description
Wikimedia UK works with cultural institutions across the UK to support, encourage and facilitate the release online of our common cultural heritage, with a focus on educational content. These partnerships take various forms and we would begin our presentation with a broad overview of this work, then focus in on partnership with the National Library of Wales, and the work of our Wikimedian-in-Residence there. This work has been addressing the key issues of limited provision for digital literacy skills for young people in Wales, and limited community engagement around Welsh cultural heritage. Digital literacy has been identified by the Welsh government as an important skill for young people to develop, and the NLW has been tasked with providing high quality digital learning resources and better access to its digital collections. Whilst at the same time, many key Welsh cultural resources are only accessible locally, so potential audiences are barred from content that could be valuable to them. By running projects involving Welsh Wikipedia, and including Welsh-related content on other Wikipedias, this partnership project is working towards giving people valuable access to their culture, and building digital literacy.
The Wikimedian in Residence has been in post at the National Library of Wales since January 2015, and by October the key achievements have been:
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4,566 images uploaded to Commons
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140,000 identified for future upload
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Image added to Wikipedia articles totalling 6 million views
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5 Edit-a-thons held including at the NLW, Cardiff, Swansea. (3 more already planned)
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2 projects completed with NLW volunteer team including Wikidata training
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150 articles created as part of edit-a-thons and volunteer projects
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32 articles significantly improved
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Significant media coverage including Twitter, blogs, articles, TV and Radio interviews
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Developed partnership with Peoples Collection Wales, achieving a commitment to offering an open license to users, and to developing a system for upload such content to Commons
We are anticipating that the residency at the NLW will be extended for a further period in 2016, with a focus on embedding the NLW’s rich digital content into schools, learning and research via Wikipedia to align with the wider Welsh Government priorities for socio-economic growth, and extending advocacy, community engagement and outreach by establishing a more cohesive approach with core NLW engagement activities including education, the People’s Collection Wales and exhibitions. Education work would also include continuing to work on Wiki projects with a local Welsh University and investigating the potential for wider collaboration with other universities across Wales via the WHELF forum.
The presentation would focus on the ways in which Wikimedia UK is working with libraries, archives and museums to ensure greater access to educational content online, with a particular focus on the Wales collaboration but drawing on our experience in other settings. We would also introduce our new Wikimedia UK Education Working Group, led by trustee and educationalist Josie Fraser, which will meet for the first time in April 2016 and to which we would love to be able to recruit new members.
Participants
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diando70
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Joe Wilson
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Susan Greig
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kamilsliwowski
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Anna Page
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Frances Bell
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Christopher Jobling
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Marie Lönnblad
joined 8 years, 8 months ago -
ALT
joined 8 years, 9 months ago
