The 42nd Bangalore Wikipedia Wikimeetup was held on 12 Feb 2012, at Wikimedia India Chapter office ( The Centre for Internet and Society), Domlur. [1] Five Wikimedians attended the meetup.
This time, we introduced GeoNotice on English Wikipedia for announcing the meetup on the same morning in the Bangalore area [2]. A geonotice is a notice similar to a sitenotice, but it is displayed only to users who are physically located in some subset of the Earth. This is only a watchlist geonotice , appearing on the watchlist page of logged in users. May be we should try this at least a week ahead, next time, to catch enough attention of regular Wikipedians, and possibly on other Wikipedias too.
Arun Ramaratnam gave a talk and demo on How QR codes work, How QRPedia (http://qrpedia.org/) used this technology in an innovative way. QRpedia is a mobile Web based system which uses QR codes to deliver Wikipedia articles to users, in their preferred language. When a user scans a QRpedia QR code on their mobile device, the device decodes the QR code into a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) using the domain name "qrwp.org" and whose path (final part) is the title of a Wikipedia article, and sends a request for the article specified in the URL to the QRpedia Web server. It also transmits the language setting of the device [3] The crowd discussed on the possible ways of implementing QRPedia in Indian contexts and museums in India. We discussed about the current limitations and how they can be improved.
We discussed on how to take forward the Wiki Loves Monuments initiative in India [4]. Naveen Francis announced the registration of wikilovesmonuments.in We discussed about the MoU with National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum, New Delhi . It was decided to follow up and close the loop in signing the MoU with the Museum. Radhakrishna Arvapally also discussed about a possible partnership with Brain Museum of NIMHANS, Bangalore (Only Brain Musium in India). Arun talked about his earlier interactions with the Government Museum of Bangalore [5]. We need to complete this list of Museums in India. [6] and identify volunteers to work with them.
The Meetup was adjourned with the customary group photo sessions. You can find more photos here [6]. The next Bangalore Wikimeetup ( Meetup 43) is to be held on Sunday, 11-March-2012 Time: 3:00 PM IST. [8]
Notes:
1) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiMeetups/Bangalore/Bangalore42
2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geonotice#Bangalore_Meetup_42
3) Source : Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QRpedia
4) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Timeline
5) http://www.bangaloreindia.org.uk/tourist-attractions/government-museum.html
6) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/List_of_Museums_in_India
7) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bangalore_Meetup_February_2012
8) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiMeetups/Bangalore/Bangalore43
Thanks to Tinu for help !
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Thanks & Regards,
RadhaKrishna