On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:28, Roger Bamkin victuallers@gmail.com wrote:
I think the blue plaques is a lower hanging fruit. I thought someone (TomMorris?) was involved with these plaques. I would have thought we would be an obvious partner as we are not-for-profit and we would have a permanent url to a farly good article in most cases with a good chance of multi-lingual support.... and if you don't recognise "Enid Blyton - author" then it would be an added service. (And if you were brought up in France then you may not know who she is).
My name is invoked! I'm not sure as to whether there would be interest in QR coding blue plaques - the property owners might object. ;-)
Which reminds me: Open Plaques needs internationalization. If I were to raise a bug and write code to support internationalizing the interface, would anyone be interested in helping to make the OP interface available in languages other than English? Once we start down the i18n road, we can also reuse the lead from the relevant Wikipedia article in the language of choice of the user. If someone goes to openplaques and are looking at 'Charles Darwin', the bit from Wikipedia could be pulled from more languages than English.
Thoughts?