How Does it Work?
Book Bear is a wrapper around Wikidata. Popularity is based on pageviews data from the Wikimedia project.
Listed below are the rules used to extract data. Get in touch if you think the rules can be improved, but note that I explicitly exclude e.g. the generic writer (Q36180) because I want Book Bear to focus on fiction, poetry, and drama, not on all published works.
Authors
An author is any entity in the Wikidata database which:
- Is registered as the author (P50) of at least one work in Wikidata.
- Has an occupation (P106) of on of the following:
- Has an English label in Wikidata.
- Has an English Wikipedia article.
Work
A work is any entity in the Wikidata database which:
- Is an instance of (P31) on of the following:
- Has an English label in Wikidata.
Notability
A work is marked as notable (
) for an author if it:
- Fits the definition of a Work as defined above.
- Is registered as a notable work (P800) of the author in Wikidata.
Popularity
The popularity () of a work is based on the number of pageviews its English Wikipedia page has received relative to other works of the same author.
Pageviews are sampled from Wikimedia's own pageviews dumps, and should only be used as an indicator of relative popularity, not an absolute measurement.