Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda/EveryBookItsReader in Uganda 2023
Every Book Its Reader (#EveryBookItsReader) is a campaign to increase quality content about books, literary works, and oral stories in Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikibooks, and Wikisource. Read more about it in this Diff article
Every Book Its Reader encourages participants to contribute content under the hashtag #EveryBookItsReader. The campaign name is the third law in Ranganathan’s five laws of library science.
Objective edit
Partnering with the The African Studies Bookstore, the GLAM project will host an-person event that aims at :
- Introducing attendees to #EveryBookItsReader ;
- Contributing images of various Ugandan-published book covers on Wikimedia Commons
- Contributing new information about Ugandan publications on Wikipedia and Wikidata
- Improving the quality of new and existing book-related content by e.g adding references, adding missing links, adding images etc
Date and Venue edit
Date : 09 June 2023
Location : Uganda Society Library
Time : 9am - 4pm
Dashboard edit
If you are interested in contributing to this campaign , follow this link to sign up to the course outreach dashboard
Participants edit
You can register your username here if you plan to attend
- AKibombo (talk) 08:03, 7 June 2023
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- MEvalyn (talk) 07:48, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
- SM DENIS (talk) 07:56, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
- Tamdra (talk) 07:43, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
- NSheila
- Pine12k
Other sources edit
- #EveryBookItsReader campaign meta page
- Wikidata + Books webinar with Silvia Gutiérrez Recorded March 30, 2023