On 26 October 2011 12:21, Andrew West andrewcwest@gmail.com wrote:
On 25 October 2011 23:07, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
A QR code could be placed at a relevant war memorial, it points to a Wikibook collecting all the soldiers' letters, with scans and transcripts.
I'd rather the QR code point (via QRpedia) to a Wikipedia article about the memorial, and have that point to relevant pages on commons/ Wikisource, and the book.
I would have thought that very few war memorials would be notable enough to merit their own article on Wikipedia,
I think many are sufficiently notable; especially if we are able to source information about the people they commemorate.
and even if an article did exist, it would not be the place to put all the letters and ephemera associated with the individual soldiers listed on the memorial.
That's not what I'm suggesting; the Wikipedia article should link to the relevant commons/wiki-source pages/ categories (and a category per memorial would be appropriate in such cases)
In my opinion, Brian's suggestion of using Wikibooks to gather together all the scans, transcripts and other relevent information in a single place, and linking to it from a QR code is definitely the best solution.
I'm not sure that presenting a mobile device users, especially one with a casual interest, with a link to a Wikibook is the best approach.
I think that it is dubious whether a QRpedia code is warranted in this case, although potentially a Gaelic Wikibooks project (does not currently exist) could mirror the contents of the English Wikibooks; and for a similar project about Welsh soldiers there is both an English and a Welsh Wikibooks project that could both host the information.
You'd loose the language-detection facility offered by QRpedia.