I imagine, at very least for works which are in the public domain, that we feel more strongly about people having access to the books (and in a format which is valuable to them) than what reader is used. Thanks for raising an important usability question, GerardM. best wishes, - mek On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 10:02 PM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com > Hoi, > Why is it that we do not have our own frontend to provide books to our > readers? This is of particular importance to the people who do not read > English but Malayalam or Konkani, or Gujarati or .. > Thanks, > GerardM > > On 11 March 2017 at 00:45, Michael Karpeles <michael.karpeles(a)gmail.com> > >> Hi friends, >> >> I was just speaking to Asaf @ WMF about the road to pairing Wikipedia >> book articles to copies which are freely available and readable through the >> Internet Archive's Open Library. >> >> Open Library has ~16M works and ~25M editions, about 1.8M of these >> editions are readable without any login. An additional several hundred >> thousand modern works are borrowable with an archive.org account. >> >> I recognize that there are already tens of thousands of books on Wikidata >> (maybe more, now!) which have Open Library IDs (olids) -- e.g. >> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P648. Asaf and I wondered whether >> a good first step might be to see how many of the readable works Open >> Library has are already on Wikidata. >> >> TL;DR -- The Open Library team would love to help empower more wikipedia >> and wikidata users to access readable copies of books related to the >> content they're viewing. And we'd love to explore donating metadata to help >> improve the quality of Wikidata. What are the community's feelings on this, >> what existing efforts may exist (or have existed) which I should be aware >> of, and how do you recommend we proceed in a way which respects the >> community's policies and goals? >> >> best wishes, >> >> - mek >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > >

Thank you Andy and Antonin, I'll answer the questions posed and follow-up shortly On Mar 11, 2017 6:23 AM, "Andy Mabbett" <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: On 10 March 2017 at 23:45, Michael Karpeles <michael.karpeles(a)gmail.com> wrote: and improve and That would be great, Thank you. You can find some information on how we accept data donations at: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Data_donation and I would be happy to assist you with the process, and with liaising with the Wikidata community. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata