Congrats to you for your initiative. I'm hoping it catches media attention
too as it will help us in other QRPedia implementations in India.
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On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 1:22 PM, <wheredevelsdare(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
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,
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Regards,
Srikanth Ramakrishnan.