I've created a meta page for this: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rsrikanth05/QR_Pedia Please feel free to work on it.
On Wednesday, March 7, 2012, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.ghoda@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you Naveen, I have already sent across first bit of correspondence
to them.
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Naveen Francis naveenpf@wikimedia.in
wrote:
Good idea Srikanth.
I had similar thoughts after Arun's qrpedia talk in Bangalore meetup and
seeing the following photo ( http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Wikip%C3%A9dia_dans_Renne...)
Om,Radhakrishna,Anoopan has offered help in Kannada,Telugu and Malayalam.
We need to talk to BMRCL officials and need try similar things across
India.
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
rsrikanth05@gmail.com> wrote:
Hiya all. This is a quick summary of one of my silliest ideas. Thanks to my Wiki-friend PhantomSteve, and real life buddy @aagan86 [from
Twitter] who got me interested in QR codes.
I kept this a secret, telling it partly to Pradeep Mohandas, and Nitika
Tandon. [SBC-YPR knew it the whole time].
I had contacted Roger Bamkin of the UK Chapter, and he connected me with
Terence Eden. As you all know, the two of them created QR Pedia together.
Sent on 28-12-11 to Roger Bamkin. Hi, I'm Srikanth, from India, known on Wiki and Twitter as Rsrikanth05. I've been on the English Wikipedia from June '05 and I have a little over
10,000 edits. I've been editing since I was 13.
I got really interested in QR Codes a while back, and I tried using one
to promote a WikiMeetup in Coimbatore.
I stumbled across QR Pedia on Google, and thought I'd get in touch with
you.
I thought of this crazy idea to promote learning History and Geography
via Wikipedia in India, using QR Codes. Seeing that a VAST majority of kids today roam around with BlackBerrys, iPhones, et al, I thought this would be a good opportunity.
I'm a mega transport enthusiast, so I thought I'd write to the Bangalore
Metro Rail Corporation Limited, who operate the Bangalore Metro. I chose BMRCL, because:
1> Out of the three Metro systems in the country, it is the most
approachable.
2> Out of the various agencies in Bangalore and it's parent state of
Karnataka, again it is the most approachable and tech savvy.
My plan is to convince the BMRCL about providing QR codes to the various
localities and landmarks along the route of the first track.
Ideas in my brain are: 1> Each station has multiple exits, each of those can be linked to an
article. Eg: At MG Road station, there is an exit towards Commercial Street, one towards Brigade Road, and one towards the Parade Ground. The Brigade Road exit can have a QR code pointing to Brigade Road, while the Comm. St, one can have one pointing to it's article.
2> Where the board says the station name, place a Code for the article of
that area.
3> Presently, two stations are named after people: Mahatama Gandhi and
Swami Vivekananda. More are in the pipeline, once the construction is completed. We could link the Code to the article on that person.
I agree that articles should be in all possible languages and should be
of high quality with good media. I am working on this, hoping the community will join me.
This came in response:
I don't think its silly at all. What can we do to help you? Most of our
best successes have been silly ideas (who would think you could allow everyone to edit a good source of information?)
We have a following of people who like writing articles and the Wikimedia
UK board are keen on this idea. (We were also in the Wikimedia Foundation annual report)
We can show you how we ran the Derby project
http://midea.nmc.org/2011/12/one-small-museum-making-a-big-impact-an-intervi...
One of our most repected editors in the UK is 13 now!
Do you have some "sources" that we could write these articles from? You
may be able to convince the bus company by doing one stop?
Very interested in helping you, the bus passemgers etc and of course
Wikipedia
regards Roger
Further: Srikanth
Obviously Ive never tried to sell this idea to a bu
-- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll
Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG