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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.
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> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Naveen Francis <naveenpf@wikimedia.in> wrote:
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> Good idea Srikanth.
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> 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_Rennes_-_Jean_Janvier_-_vue_proche.jpg )
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> Om,Radhakrishna,Anoopan has offered help in Kannada,Telugu and Malayalam.
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> We need to talk to BMRCL officials and need try similar things across India.
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> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <rsrikanth05@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I got really interested in QR Codes a while back, and I tried using one to promote a WikiMeetup in Coimbatore.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> This came in response:
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> 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?)
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> 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)
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> We can show you how we ran the Derby project http://midea.nmc.org/2011/12/one-small-museum-making-a-big-impact-an-interview-with-roger-bamkin/
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> One of our most repected editors in the UK is 13 now!
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> 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?
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> Very interested in helping you, the bus passemgers etc and of course Wikipedia
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> regards
> Roger
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> Further:
> Srikanth
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> Obviously Ive never tried to sell this idea to a bu
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> 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
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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