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  1. For this year's #everybookitsreader I decided to quietly introduce a little edit per day about a book in any #wikimedia project. I ended up getting more engaged about some of the books I edited about, but also got an interesting view of the lifecycle of some wikimedia content (and how it ends up outdated, incomplete, etc.).

    The experiment is about to end as April ends this week, but it doesn't have to, and I might just expand the topic and keep trying to do an edit per day - why not?

  2. For this year's #everybookitsreader I decided to quietly introduce a little edit per day about a book in any #wikimedia project. I ended up getting more engaged about some of the books I edited about, but also got an interesting view of the lifecycle of some wikimedia content (and how it ends up outdated, incomplete, etc.).

    The experiment is about to end as April ends this week, but it doesn't have to, and I might just expand the topic and keep trying to do an edit per day - why not?

  3. For this year's #everybookitsreader I decided to quietly introduce a little edit per day about a book in any #wikimedia project. I ended up getting more engaged about some of the books I edited about, but also got an interesting view of the lifecycle of some wikimedia content (and how it ends up outdated, incomplete, etc.).

    The experiment is about to end as April ends this week, but it doesn't have to, and I might just expand the topic and keep trying to do an edit per day - why not?

  4. For this year's #everybookitsreader I decided to quietly introduce a little edit per day about a book in any #wikimedia project. I ended up getting more engaged about some of the books I edited about, but also got an interesting view of the lifecycle of some wikimedia content (and how it ends up outdated, incomplete, etc.).

    The experiment is about to end as April ends this week, but it doesn't have to, and I might just expand the topic and keep trying to do an edit per day - why not?

  5. Want to improve book info on #Wikimedia? Join #EveryBookItsReader #books
    I'm adding info about Elizabeth Fair books & @deanstpress.bsky.social and also Portuguese titles of other books to #Wikidata
    I'm telling you how I'm doing it here:

    paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/

  6. Want to improve book info on #Wikimedia? Join #EveryBookItsReader #books
    I'm adding info about Elizabeth Fair books & @deanstpress.bsky.social and also Portuguese titles of other books to #Wikidata
    I'm telling you how I'm doing it here:

    paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/

  7. Want to improve book info on #Wikimedia? Join #EveryBookItsReader #books
    I'm adding info about Elizabeth Fair books & @deanstpress.bsky.social and also Portuguese titles of other books to #Wikidata
    I'm telling you how I'm doing it here:

    paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/

  8. Want to improve book info on #Wikimedia? Join #EveryBookItsReader #books
    I'm adding info about Elizabeth Fair books & @deanstpress.bsky.social and also Portuguese titles of other books to #Wikidata
    I'm telling you how I'm doing it here:

    paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/

  9. Want to improve book info on #Wikimedia? Join #EveryBookItsReader #books
    I'm adding info about Elizabeth Fair books & @deanstpress.bsky.social and also Portuguese titles of other books to #Wikidata
    I'm telling you how I'm doing it here:

    paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/

  10. Want to improve book info on Wikimedia? Join #EveryBookItsReader 2026

    Every Book Its Reader is a campaign to incentivise everyone to improve quality content about books through Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikibooks, and Wikisource. It usually runs through the whole month of April. You can go to the campaign website and follow the instructions to link your Wikimedia account to the campaign and thus have your contributions counted.

    This means you can create a new Wikipedia page for an author or book that doesn’t exist yet or, if you want to start with a less demanding task, you can search for Wikipedia articles about your favourite authors or books, read them and add information or add references for the information already published. You can also contribute to the other platforms of Wikimedia, like the Commons, the Wikibooks, or Wikisource (if you’re uploading an item, be sure to check if you have the copyright of the work or if it’s in public domain).

    Another more easy option is to contribute to Wikidata (at least for me), a wiki of structured data. This means that once the data is there, you can ask (create queries) about what you want to know. Some examples:

    You can also use the more easy visual query builder here. But to ask questions, we need the data there.

    This year I thought I would add information about Elizabeth Fair books to Wikidata. There’s already an item for the author, but not her books. I started by creating an item for the work Bramton Wick, published in 1952. But I also wanted to add the 2017 edition by Dean Street Press, so I added a new item for that edition (one work can have several editions). And I wanted to describe it as much as possible: that it was published by DSP (there was not info about it, so I created a new item for the publisher), in the Furrowed Middlebrow collection (for which I also created an item) with an introduction by Elizabeth Crawford (that was already on Wikidata, so I linked to it directly). At the end, I went to the item about Elizabeth Fair, that was already on Wikidata, and was able to link Bramton Wick to her notable works. I’m linking here all the items to Wikidata, so if you have more info, you can go there and add to them.

    So I’m hoping to find some time during this month to add at least Fair’s other books (yeah, I know you can tell I love her books 😍).

    In the 2024 campaign, I added to Wikidata information about (autolink, in Portuguese) titles to Agatha Christie’s books to solve a problem I (and probably many others that read in more than one language) face: the fact the same book can have very different titles, which means that you can find what it seems a new to you book by a given author, but it just has a different title of a book you already own or read.

    Steven from @christie_in_translation at Instagram shares regularly different countries’ editions of Agatha Christie’s books and reflects about the different translations of her titles. In Christie’s case, we even have the same book in the same language (English) with a different title, depending if it was published in the UK or the US.

    So this year I decided to extend it to new authors and I’m using a Portuguese collection of crime fiction (Colecção Vampiro) to add the Portuguese titles to the original items’ titles in Wikidata.

    As you can see, you can go from simple to more complex contributions to the Every Book Its Reader, and each one is as much important as the other. So, why not give it a go?

    #AgathaChristie #books #ColecçãoVampiro #CrimeFiction #DeanStreetPress #ElizabethFair #EveryBookItsReader #fiction #FurrowedMiddlebrow #Metadata #reading #Technology #Wikidata #Wikimedia
  11. Want to improve book info on Wikimedia? Join #EveryBookItsReader 2026

    Every Book Its Reader is a campaign to incentivise everyone to improve quality content about books through Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikibooks, and Wikisource. It usually runs through the whole month of April. You can go to the campaign website and follow the instructions to link your Wikimedia account to the campaign and thus have your contributions counted.

    This means you can create a new Wikipedia page for an author or book that doesn’t exist yet or, if you want to start with a less demanding task, you can search for Wikipedia articles about your favourite authors or books, read them and add information or add references for the information already published. You can also contribute to the other platforms of Wikimedia, like the Commons, the Wikibooks, or Wikisource (if you’re uploading an item, be sure to check if you have the copyright of the work or if it’s in public domain).

    Another more easy option is to contribute to Wikidata (at least for me), a wiki of structured data. This means that once the data is there, you can ask (create queries) about what you want to know. Some examples:

    You can also use the more easy visual query builder here. But to ask questions, we need the data there.

    This year I thought I would add information about Elizabeth Fair books to Wikidata. There’s already an item for the author, but not her books. I started by creating an item for the work Bramton Wick, published in 1952. But I also wanted to add the 2017 edition by Dean Street Press, so I added a new item for that edition (one work can have several editions). And I wanted to describe it as much as possible: that it was published by DSP (there was not info about it, so I created a new item for the publisher), in the Furrowed Middlebrow collection (for which I also created an item) with an introduction by Elizabeth Crawford (that was already on Wikidata, so I linked to it directly). At the end, I went to the item about Elizabeth Fair, that was already on Wikidata, and was able to link Bramton Wick to her notable works. I’m linking here all the items to Wikidata, so if you have more info, you can go there and add to them.

    So I’m hoping to find some time during this month to add at least Fair’s other books (yeah, I know you can tell I love her books 😍).

    In the 2024 campaign, I added to Wikidata information about (autolink, in Portuguese) titles to Agatha Christie’s books to solve a problem I (and probably many others that read in more than one language) face: the fact the same book can have very different titles, which means that you can find what it seems a new to you book by a given author, but it just has a different title of a book you already own or read.

    Steven from @christie_in_translation at Instagram shares regularly different countries’ editions of Agatha Christie’s books and reflects about the different translations of her titles. In Christie’s case, we even have the same book in the same language (English) with a different title, depending if it was published in the UK or the US.

    So this year I decided to extend it to new authors and I’m using a Portuguese collection of crime fiction (Colecção Vampiro) to add the Portuguese titles to the original items’ titles in Wikidata.

    As you can see, you can go from simple to more complex contributions to the Every Book Its Reader, and each one is as much important as the other. So, why not give it a go?

    #AgathaChristie #books #ColecçãoVampiro #CrimeFiction #DeanStreetPress #ElizabethFair #EveryBookItsReader #fiction #FurrowedMiddlebrow #Metadata #reading #Technology #Wikidata #Wikimedia
  12. Want to improve book info on Wikimedia? Join #EveryBookItsReader 2026

    Every Book Its Reader is a campaign to incentivise everyone to improve quality content about books through Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikibooks, and Wikisource. It usually runs through the whole month of April. You can go to the campaign website and follow the instructions to link your Wikimedia account to the campaign and thus have your contributions counted.

    This means you can create a new Wikipedia page for an author or book that doesn’t exist yet or, if you want to start with a less demanding task, you can search for Wikipedia articles about your favourite authors or books, read them and add information or add references for the information already published. You can also contribute to the other platforms of Wikimedia, like the Commons, the Wikibooks, or Wikisource (if you’re uploading an item, be sure to check if you have the copyright of the work or if it’s in public domain).

    Another more easy option is to contribute to Wikidata (at least for me), a wiki of structured data. This means that once the data is there, you can ask (create queries) about what you want to know. Some examples:

    You can also use the more easy visual query builder here. But to ask questions, we need the data there.

    This year I thought I would add information about Elizabeth Fair books to Wikidata. There’s already an item for the author, but not her books. I started by creating an item for the work Bramton Wick, published in 1952. But I also wanted to add the 2017 edition by Dean Street Press, so I added a new item for that edition (one work can have several editions). And I wanted to describe it as much as possible: that it was published by DSP (there was not info about it, so I created a new item for the publisher), in the Furrowed Middlebrow collection (for which I also created an item) with an introduction by Elizabeth Crawford (that was already on Wikidata, so I linked to it directly). At the end, I went to the item about Elizabeth Fair, that was already on Wikidata, and was able to link Bramton Wick to her notable works. I’m linking here all the items to Wikidata, so if you have more info, you can go there and add to them.

    So I’m hoping to find some time during this month to add at least Fair’s other books (yeah, I know you can tell I love her books 😍).

    In the 2024 campaign, I added to Wikidata information about (autolink, in Portuguese) titles to Agatha Christie’s books to solve a problem I (and probably many others that read in more than one language) face: the fact the same book can have very different titles, which means that you can find what it seems a new to you book by a given author, but it just has a different title of a book you already own or read.

    Steven from @christie_in_translation at Instagram shares regularly different countries’ editions of Agatha Christie’s books and reflects about the different translations of her titles. In Christie’s case, we even have the same book in the same language (English) with a different title, depending if it was published in the UK or the US.

    So this year I decided to extend it to new authors and I’m using a Portuguese collection of crime fiction (Colecção Vampiro) to add the Portuguese titles to the original items’ titles in Wikidata.

    As you can see, you can go from simple to more complex contributions to the Every Book Its Reader, and each one is as much important as the other. So, why not give it a go?

    #AgathaChristie #books #ColecçãoVampiro #CrimeFiction #DeanStreetPress #ElizabethFair #EveryBookItsReader #fiction #FurrowedMiddlebrow #Metadata #reading #Technology #Wikidata #Wikimedia
  13. Want to improve book info on Wikimedia? Join #EveryBookItsReader 2026

    Every Book Its Reader is a campaign to incentivise everyone to improve quality content about books through Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikibooks, and Wikisource. It usually runs through the whole month of April. You can go to the campaign website and follow the instructions to link your Wikimedia account to the campaign and thus have your contributions counted.

    This means you can create a new Wikipedia page for an author or book that doesn’t exist yet or, if you want to start with a less demanding task, you can search for Wikipedia articles about your favourite authors or books, read them and add information or add references for the information already published. You can also contribute to the other platforms of Wikimedia, like the Commons, the Wikibooks, or Wikisource (if you’re uploading an item, be sure to check if you have the copyright of the work or if it’s in public domain).

    Another more easy option is to contribute to Wikidata (at least for me), a wiki of structured data. This means that once the data is there, you can ask (create queries) about what you want to know. Some examples:

    You can also use the more easy visual query builder here. But to ask questions, we need the data there.

    This year I thought I would add information about Elizabeth Fair books to Wikidata. There’s already an item for the author, but not her books. I started by creating an item for the work Bramton Wick, published in 1952. But I also wanted to add the 2017 edition by Dean Street Press, so I added a new item for that edition (one work can have several editions). And I wanted to describe it as much as possible: that it was published by DSP (there was not info about it, so I created a new item for the publisher), in the Furrowed Middlebrow collection (for which I also created an item) with an introduction by Elizabeth Crawford (that was already on Wikidata, so I linked to it directly). At the end, I went to the item about Elizabeth Fair, that was already on Wikidata, and was able to link Bramton Wick to her notable works. I’m linking here all the items to Wikidata, so if you have more info, you can go there and add to them.

    So I’m hoping to find some time during this month to add at least Fair’s other books (yeah, I know you can tell I love her books 😍).

    In the 2024 campaign, I added to Wikidata information about (autolink, in Portuguese) titles to Agatha Christie’s books to solve a problem I (and probably many others that read in more than one language) face: the fact the same book can have very different titles, which means that you can find what it seems a new to you book by a given author, but it just has a different title of a book you already own or read.

    Steven from @christie_in_translation at Instagram shares regularly different countries’ editions of Agatha Christie’s books and reflects about the different translations of her titles. In Christie’s case, we even have the same book in the same language (English) with a different title, depending if it was published in the UK or the US.

    So this year I decided to extend it to new authors and I’m using a Portuguese collection of crime fiction (Colecção Vampiro) to add the Portuguese titles to the original items’ titles in Wikidata.

    As you can see, you can go from simple to more complex contributions to the Every Book Its Reader, and each one is as much important as the other. So, why not give it a go?

    #AgathaChristie #books #ColecçãoVampiro #CrimeFiction #DeanStreetPress #ElizabethFair #EveryBookItsReader #fiction #FurrowedMiddlebrow #Metadata #reading #Technology #Wikidata #Wikimedia
  14. Want to improve book info on Wikimedia? Join #EveryBookItsReader 2026

    Every Book Its Reader is a campaign to incentivise everyone to improve quality content about books through Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikibooks, and Wikisource. It usually runs through the whole month of April. You can go to the campaign website and follow the instructions to link your Wikimedia account to the campaign and thus have your contributions counted.

    This means you can create a new Wikipedia page for an author or book that doesn’t exist yet or, if you want to start with a less demanding task, you can search for Wikipedia articles about your favourite authors or books, read them and add information or add references for the information already published. You can also contribute to the other platforms of Wikimedia, like the Commons, the Wikibooks, or Wikisource (if you’re uploading an item, be sure to check if you have the copyright of the work or if it’s in public domain).

    Another more easy option is to contribute to Wikidata (at least for me), a wiki of structured data. This means that once the data is there, you can ask (create queries) about what you want to know. Some examples:

    You can also use the more easy visual query builder here. But to ask questions, we need the data there.

    This year I thought I would add information about Elizabeth Fair books to Wikidata. There’s already an item for the author, but not her books. I started by creating an item for the work Bramton Wick, published in 1952. But I also wanted to add the 2017 edition by Dean Street Press, so I added a new item for that edition (one work can have several editions). And I wanted to describe it as much as possible: that it was published by DSP (there was not info about it, so I created a new item for the publisher), in the Furrowed Middlebrow collection (for which I also created an item) with an introduction by Elizabeth Crawford (that was already on Wikidata, so I linked to it directly). At the end, I went to the item about Elizabeth Fair, that was already on Wikidata, and was able to link Bramton Wick to her notable works. I’m linking here all the items to Wikidata, so if you have more info, you can go there and add to them.

    So I’m hoping to find some time during this month to add at least Fair’s other books (yeah, I know you can tell I love her books 😍).

    In the 2024 campaign, I added to Wikidata information about (autolink, in Portuguese) titles to Agatha Christie’s books to solve a problem I (and probably many others that read in more than one language) face: the fact the same book can have very different titles, which means that you can find what it seems a new to you book by a given author, but it just has a different title of a book you already own or read.

    Steven from @christie_in_translation at Instagram shares regularly different countries’ editions of Agatha Christie’s books and reflects about the different translations of her titles. In Christie’s case, we even have the same book in the same language (English) with a different title, depending if it was published in the UK or the US.

    So this year I decided to extend it to new authors and I’m using a Portuguese collection of crime fiction (Colecção Vampiro) to add the Portuguese titles to the original items’ titles in Wikidata.

    As you can see, you can go from simple to more complex contributions to the Every Book Its Reader, and each one is as much important as the other. So, why not give it a go?

    #AgathaChristie #books #ColecçãoVampiro #CrimeFiction #DeanStreetPress #ElizabethFair #EveryBookItsReader #fiction #FurrowedMiddlebrow #Metadata #reading #Technology #Wikidata #Wikimedia
  15. #CadaLivroOSeuLeitor é a hashtag em Português para a campanha #EveryBookItsReader da Wikimedia.

    Este ano andava a fazer (silenciosamente e sem pressão) a minha própria forma de celebrar o mês, fazendo uma edição por dia, tipicamente na Wikidata, relacionada com livros.

    Mas parece que este ano a @wikimediapt vai trazer de forma mais oficial esta campanha a Portugal, com a apresentação a decorrer, muito adequadamente, no dia de abertura da Feira do Livro em Évora:

    @paulasimoes ciberlandia.pt/@paulasimoes/11

  16. #CadaLivroOSeuLeitor é a hashtag em Português para a campanha #EveryBookItsReader da Wikimedia.

    Este ano andava a fazer (silenciosamente e sem pressão) a minha própria forma de celebrar o mês, fazendo uma edição por dia, tipicamente na Wikidata, relacionada com livros.

    Mas parece que este ano a @wikimediapt vai trazer de forma mais oficial esta campanha a Portugal, com a apresentação a decorrer, muito adequadamente, no dia de abertura da Feira do Livro em Évora:

    @paulasimoes ciberlandia.pt/@paulasimoes/11

  17. #CadaLivroOSeuLeitor é a hashtag em Português para a campanha #EveryBookItsReader da Wikimedia.

    Este ano andava a fazer (silenciosamente e sem pressão) a minha própria forma de celebrar o mês, fazendo uma edição por dia, tipicamente na Wikidata, relacionada com livros.

    Mas parece que este ano a @wikimediapt vai trazer de forma mais oficial esta campanha a Portugal, com a apresentação a decorrer, muito adequadamente, no dia de abertura da Feira do Livro em Évora:

    @paulasimoes ciberlandia.pt/@paulasimoes/11

  18. #CadaLivroOSeuLeitor é a hashtag em Português para a campanha #EveryBookItsReader da Wikimedia.

    Este ano andava a fazer (silenciosamente e sem pressão) a minha própria forma de celebrar o mês, fazendo uma edição por dia, tipicamente na Wikidata, relacionada com livros.

    Mas parece que este ano a @wikimediapt vai trazer de forma mais oficial esta campanha a Portugal, com a apresentação a decorrer, muito adequadamente, no dia de abertura da Feira do Livro em Évora:

    @paulasimoes ciberlandia.pt/@paulasimoes/11

  19. Home - Creating and editing Wikipedia articles about books - LibGuides at Oregon State University

    #EveryBookItsReader

    guides.library.oregonstate.edu

  20. Home - Creating and editing Wikipedia articles about books - LibGuides at Oregon State University

    #EveryBookItsReader

    guides.library.oregonstate.edu

  21. Home - Creating and editing Wikipedia articles about books - LibGuides at Oregon State University

    #EveryBookItsReader

    guides.library.oregonstate.edu

  22. Home - Creating and editing Wikipedia articles about books - LibGuides at Oregon State University

    #EveryBookItsReader

    guides.library.oregonstate.edu

  23. Heard an excellent presentation from @LaurieBridges on the #EveryBookItsReader Wikipedia campaign that ran for the first time in April. Glad to hear it might become annual! meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EveryB

  24. Heard an excellent presentation from @LaurieBridges on the #EveryBookItsReader Wikipedia campaign that ran for the first time in April. Glad to hear it might become annual! meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EveryB

  25. Heard an excellent presentation from @LaurieBridges on the #EveryBookItsReader Wikipedia campaign that ran for the first time in April. Glad to hear it might become annual! meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EveryB

  26. Heard an excellent presentation from @LaurieBridges on the #EveryBookItsReader Wikipedia campaign that ran for the first time in April. Glad to hear it might become annual! meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EveryB

  27. Amb motiu de la diada de #SantJordi, el mes d'abril durem a terme #ACadaLlibreElSeuPúblic, una campanya internacional per promocionar els llibres a la @viquipedia centrada especialment en aquells que són censurats per raons d'identitat de gènere. Tothom pot participar-hi, som-hi!
    📚 w.wiki/6UoM
    #EveryBookItsReader #SantJordi2023 #llibres #Bibliowikis

  28. Amb motiu de la diada de #SantJordi, el mes d'abril durem a terme #ACadaLlibreElSeuPúblic, una campanya internacional per promocionar els llibres a la @viquipedia centrada especialment en aquells que són censurats per raons d'identitat de gènere. Tothom pot participar-hi, som-hi!
    📚 w.wiki/6UoM
    #EveryBookItsReader #SantJordi2023 #llibres #Bibliowikis

  29. Amb motiu de la diada de #SantJordi, el mes d'abril durem a terme #ACadaLlibreElSeuPúblic, una campanya internacional per promocionar els llibres a la @viquipedia centrada especialment en aquells que són censurats per raons d'identitat de gènere. Tothom pot participar-hi, som-hi!
    📚 w.wiki/6UoM
    #EveryBookItsReader #SantJordi2023 #llibres #Bibliowikis

  30. Amb motiu de la diada de #SantJordi, el mes d'abril durem a terme #ACadaLlibreElSeuPúblic, una campanya internacional per promocionar els llibres a la @viquipedia centrada especialment en aquells que són censurats per raons d'identitat de gènere. Tothom pot participar-hi, som-hi!
    📚 w.wiki/6UoM
    #EveryBookItsReader #SantJordi2023 #llibres #Bibliowikis

  31. Amb motiu de la diada de #SantJordi, el mes d'abril durem a terme #ACadaLlibreElSeuPúblic, una campanya internacional per promocionar els llibres a la @viquipedia centrada especialment en aquells que són censurats per raons d'identitat de gènere. Tothom pot participar-hi, som-hi!
    📚 w.wiki/6UoM
    #EveryBookItsReader #SantJordi2023 #llibres #Bibliowikis

  32. Calling all readers: @Wikimedia volunteers are editing all things literary for the month of April! Here’s how you can join them by participating in the #EveryBookItsReader campaign. meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EveryB

  33. Calling all readers: @Wikimedia volunteers are editing all things literary for the month of April! Here’s how you can join them by participating in the #EveryBookItsReader campaign. meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EveryB

  34. Calling all readers: @Wikimedia volunteers are editing all things literary for the month of April! Here’s how you can join them by participating in the #EveryBookItsReader campaign. meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EveryB

  35. Calling all readers: @Wikimedia volunteers are editing all things literary for the month of April! Here’s how you can join them by participating in the #EveryBookItsReader campaign. meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EveryB

  36. Calling all readers: @Wikimedia volunteers are editing all things literary for the month of April! Here’s how you can join them by participating in the #EveryBookItsReader campaign. meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EveryB