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:

https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/want-to-improve-book-info-on-wikimedia-join-everybookitsreader-2026/

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?

A minha contribuição para o #everybookitsreader na #wikidata: Saber com que título em PT foram publicadas as obras da #AgathaChristie

https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/2024/05/01/a-minha-contribuicao-para-o-everybookitsreader-na-wikidata-saber-com-que-titulo-em-pt-foram-publicadas-as-obras-da-agathachristie/

#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 https://ciberlandia.pt/@paulasimoes/112241862615259555

No próximo sábado, às 10h na Biblioteca Pública de Évora, a @wikimediapt ensina e apresenta a campanha #EveryBookItsReader #CadaLivroOSeuLeitor

Mais info aqui:
https://www.cm-evora.pt/eventos/feira-do-livro-2024-2/

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

#EveryBookItsReader

https://guides.library.oregonstate.edu/wikipediabook

New @Wikimedia campaign to improve coverage on books.

#EveryBookitsreader

Let’s go!

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/03/07/introducing-everybookitsreader-a-new-wikimedia-campaign/