On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:28, Roger Bamkin <victuallers(a)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?
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Tom Morris
<http://tommorris.org/>