Hiya,
The newest establishment to adopt QRpedia: Swaminarayan
Temple, Mumbai (Bhuleshwar - on a trial basis). I got the idea of
approaching temples when Andy announced the collab with the Church in
Birmingham. Thanks to Sarah/Lori/Roger for all their help with this. The
QR Codes installed are of the Temple's own article, Swaminarayan,
Lakshminarayan, Ganesha and Hanuman.
We tried to innovate by including deity QR codes along with the actual
temple ones (where there is an article). The reasoning being that there
are millions of temples across India, a small percentage of which have
Wikipedia articles or any coverage whatsoever in the media. In addition,
Hinduism is not a monotheistic religion, I believe there are a few
million deities worshiped, out of which most of those that are popular
have some excellent Wikipedia articles. So, in effect, by using the
deity articles we can aim to include millions of temples with QRpedia which we
couldn't if we used just the Temple articles.
I'm hoping that installation in this particular temple which coincidentally
completes 144 years this week will help us convince other institutions to adopt QRpedia -
infact I believe this is the first place in India to have
QRpedia installed. I'm also hoping that the extra footfalls during
anniversary celebrations this week will give us valuable feedback.
Kind Regards,