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

#EveryBookItsReader logo

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

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Partnering with the The African Studies Bookstore, the GLAM project will host an-person event that aims at :

  1. Introducing attendees to #EveryBookItsReader ;
  2. Contributing images of various Ugandan-published book covers on Wikimedia Commons
  3. Contributing new information about Ugandan publications on Wikipedia and Wikidata
  4. Improving the quality of new and existing book-related content by e.g adding references, adding missing links, adding images etc

Date and Venue

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Date : 09 June 2023

Location : Uganda Society Library

Time : 9am - 4pm

Dashboard

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If you are interested in contributing to this campaign , follow this link to sign up to the course outreach dashboard

Participants

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You can register your username here if you plan to attend

  1. AKibombo (talk) 08:03, 7 June 2023
  2. Mpaka moses.
  3. MEvalyn (talk) 07:48, 9 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  4. SM DENIS (talk) 07:56, 9 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Tamdra (talk) 07:43, 9 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  6. NSheila
  7. Pine12k

Other sources

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