Welcome all LibriVoxers
Out of the almost 10,000 recordings LibriVox offers only 49 have links from Wikipedia as of the date of this post. Let's change this by increasing the number of Wikipedia "Book" pages that have links to LibriVox recordings by way of this project.
This linkage from wikipedia to LibriVox has been discussed on earlier LibriVox threads and is now at the point of a viable project. Prior threads on this subject: viewtopic.php?f=22&t=1736, and viewtopic.php?f=24&t=55376
Wikipedia has approved a project to include links to LibriVox recordings on the associated Wikipedia "book" page. For instance, Wikipedia has an entry for The Time Machine by H. G. Wells. This The Time Machine book page may now have a link to the LibriVox recordings of this text. In fact, LibriVoxers have permission from wikipedia to link every book possible.
There is only one "approved" way to link to LibriVox recordings from Wikipedia. Per wikipedia's standard formatting, there is usually a section toward the end of the article named "External Links." Links to external (non-wikipedia) pages containing the text read for LibriVox recordings, like Gutenberg or Internet Archives will be found there. Links to LibriVox recordings can now be placed there. The link must be through the use of a Wikipedia template which was custom designed and implemented for this effort to add LibriVox links to Wikipedia pages. Green Cardamom, an editor at Wikipedia, did a great job in creating a simple template as you can see from the following description of how to use it.
It's simple, merely replace BOOK with the name of the book as it's listed at LibriVox, and replace AUTHOR with the name of the author listed at LibriVox. That's it. (The asterisk is required)
* {{librivox book | title=BOOK | author=AUTHOR}}
becomes
* {{librivox book | title=The Time Machine | author=H. G. Wells}}
This will add the link as seen at the bottom of this Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Machine
which will look like this:
(icon of a speaker) The Time Machine public domain audiobook at LibriVox
If there is no External links section, add the section at the bottom with the LibriVox link following, like this:
==External links==
* {{librivox book | title=The Time Machine | author=H. G. Wells}}
Warning: There is a lot of stuff at the bottom of a Wikipedia that must come after the external links, so don’t add this at the very last line. Read the code for the page and you will see other sections marked by the two equal signs, "==". The external link section must be the last of these types of sections.
After the link has been created and tested in Wikipedia please post in this thread. Posting in this thread will let LibriVox user ekzemplaro know. Ekzemplaro is the keeper of the un-official list of LibriVox recordings that has been updated to indicate whether there is a link from the associated Wikipedia page or not: (http://ekzemplaro.org/librivox/catalog/.
Also, LibriVox has a place on the audio book page for a link to wikipedia if a wikipedia book page exists. Once you have verified the link from wikipedia to LibriVox , please also confirm there is a link on the LibriVox page back to that same wikipedia page. If there is no link on the LibriVox page, that is because when the project was completed there wasn't yet a wikipedia page for the book. In other words, verify that both links, back and forth between wikipedia and LibriVox, exist and work. If there is no link from LibriVox to wikipedia, please post that information in this thread also.
- -1 --> Not checked yet
0 ---> Checked. No link to or from Wikipedia
1 ---> Checked. The link from LibriVox to Wikipedia exists
2 ---> Checked. The link from Wikipedia to LibriVox exists
3 ---> Checked. Links exist both to and from wikipedia and Librivox
You should check ekzemplaro's unofficial file before you chose which audio recordings to link to in order to avoid duplicate effort.
If you like the idea of linking up with Wikipedia, please join us and help out by picking a book and getting it's link onto a Wikipedia page.
Note: Wikipedia is pretty easy to use and modify. They have lessons available and helpful denizens. You can also message me if you need anything related to this project.
My main contact at Wikipedia was with an editor named Green Cardamom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Green_Cardamom.
Wikipedia's new LibriVox Book template: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Librivox_book
ekzemplaro book list with Wikipedia link information:
http://ekzemplaro.org/librivox/catalog/