EveryBooksItsReader 2023/Participate

Participate

We need people who are passionate about books, literary works, and oral stories to contribute to the Wikimedia projects. Whether you’re a librarian, a publisher, an author, or you just like books: your contributions to this campaign will help support books, authors, storytellers, and readers. There are many ways to engage with the #EveryBookItsReader campaign. From the simple to the more complex.

You can work alone, or with a group. Organize an event or attend an event.

If you organize an event, please add it to our campaign tracking dashboard. Tag all Wikimedia activities related to this campaign, #EveryBookItsReader (English Wikipedia example).

Simple Tasks

Add bluelinks to and from book and author articles.
Correct typos and misspellings in book articles.
Add a reference.
Create a section for any literary awards the book has won.
When you are logged into your Wikipedia account “Star” book pages so that you can follow edits over time (updates will be emailed).
Link to books that are in the public domain. For example link to digitized copies on Wikisource/ Internet Archive/ Project Gutenberg.

Complex Tasks

Create an article for a book
Edit an existing book article
- Add sections for:
  - Synopsis / Summary / Plot
  - Controversies / Censorship
  - Reception: Critical, Academic, Public
  - Awards and Nominations
- Add an infobox
Add data to Wikidata
Translate a book article from one language Wikipedia to another
Add a photo of the book cover to WikiCommons to illustrate the article on Wikipedia.
Add a digitized book to Wikisource or complete the transcription or translation of a book on Wikisource.
Identify award-winning books and make sure they have Wikipedia articles.
Make lists of literary awards in Wikipedia.
Identify challenged or censored authors and/or stories and make sure they have Wikipedia articles.
Upload oral stories (audio or video) to WikiCommons.