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(a)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(a)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_Renn…)
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(a)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-interv…
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
--
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