We had a bit of a mix up with the journalist as I told him we had been shortlisted for the SmartUK award and then I realised it was not public knowledge. I think the piece is very well written and includes more that just what we told him. Hes done some research! I thought we were on the "cutting room floor" - Monmouthshire CC will be very pleaseed wit this I think and it shows what we can do.
Hope WMUK editors are still plugging away at Monmouth articles - we do have 50 so far (approx)
Roger
On 26 January 2012 17:39, Richard Symonds
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Aye, I just saw it too! Matthew Roth (from WMF) is impressed about the coverage, and overall it's not a bad piece...
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On 26/01/2012 17:30, Andy Mabbett wrote:
There's a great article about MonmoutpediA in the Guardian today;
congratulations to all involved, it's a great advert for our work,
despite some (baseless) naysaying.
However (there's always a catch!), the article says:
By April the aim is to dot 1,000 QR codes – a barcode that smartphones can
read – around the border town. Visitors will be able to use their
phones to scan
the QR codes and view the Wikipedia page (in the language their phone is set
up for) relevant to where they are standing.
which is good, but doesn't use the word QRpedia. can we try to
include/. emphasise that name on our marketing; or if we did,
encourage journalists to use it?
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