Just read this BBC article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15216513 where the correspondent wanders around a Paris cemetery, smartphone in hand, searching the internet for information about the people buried there. How much more convenient if the graves of notable people were tastefully and discretely marked with QRpedia codes. A Wikimedia UK collaboration with Highgate Cemetery maybe?
Andrew
In related news…: http://www.japantrends.com/qr-code-graves-give-a-memorial-window/ http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2011-07-19-qr-codes-smartphones_n.htm
(I think the URLs are self-evident - although note that this is effectively 'vanity QR codes' rather than notable people ones.)
Mike
On 10 Oct 2011, at 10:20, Andrew West wrote:
Just read this BBC article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15216513 where the correspondent wanders around a Paris cemetery, smartphone in hand, searching the internet for information about the people buried there. How much more convenient if the graves of notable people were tastefully and discretely marked with QRpedia codes. A Wikimedia UK collaboration with Highgate Cemetery maybe?
Andrew
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We should also get QRPedia codes on blue plaques, monuments, and war memorials. :-)
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Andrew West andrewcwest@gmail.com wrote:
Just read this BBC article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15216513 where the correspondent wanders around a Paris cemetery, smartphone in hand, searching the internet for information about the people buried there. How much more convenient if the graves of notable people were tastefully and discretely marked with QRpedia codes. A Wikimedia UK collaboration with Highgate Cemetery maybe?
Andrew
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On 10/10/2011 10:26, Chris Keating wrote:
We should also get QRPedia codes on blue plaques, monuments, and war memorials. :-)
Yes. I am sure English Heritage would jump at the prospect!
Gordo
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).
Anyone fancy banging on a ministry door?
It would take a long time to do though unless we could find a stick on or easily attachable (and) durable method of adding one to an existing plaque.
The other obvious customer is "Wiki Loves Monuments"
You may not have seen this new but the Juan Miro exhib opens on Friday in Barcelona (biggest for 20 years) and Wikipedians are the curators and its all QRpedia'd by Kippelboy et al. If you get a minute then give a polish to the Joan Miro painting articles (easy to find in template). There is support for about 5 languages, but if you can type Welsh etc then now is the time to show it off
Best wishes
See you Sunday
On 12 October 2011 19:54, Gordon Joly gordon.joly@pobox.com wrote:
On 10/10/2011 10:26, Chris Keating wrote:
We should also get QRPedia codes on blue plaques, monuments, and war memorials. :-)
Yes. I am sure English Heritage would jump at the prospect!
Gordo
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Codes /on/ blue plaques would probably not work - they tend to be high-up, so hard to reach, in order to scan (obviously with a few exceptions). Codes on a second, lower, plaque - say 6" square, in the same colours - may work. Perhaps the foundation could pay for one to be cast, if we find a suitable host?
Tom is involved with http://openplaques.org which documents plaques.
This is something I'd like to be involved in - I'm already looking for a local candidate. However, I think talking to English Heritage, rather than a ministry, would be appropriate - though other organisations also erect plaques in blue and other colours.
On 13 October 2011 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).
Anyone fancy banging on a ministry door?
It would take a long time to do though unless we could find a stick on or easily attachable (and) durable method of adding one to an existing plaque.
The other obvious customer is "Wiki Loves Monuments"
You may not have seen this new but the Juan Miro exhib opens on Friday in Barcelona (biggest for 20 years) and Wikipedians are the curators and its all QRpedia'd by Kippelboy et al. If you get a minute then give a polish to the Joan Miro painting articles (easy to find in template). There is support for about 5 languages, but if you can type Welsh etc then now is the time to show it off
Best wishes
See you Sunday
On 12 October 2011 19:54, Gordon Joly gordon.joly@pobox.com wrote:
On 10/10/2011 10:26, Chris Keating wrote:
We should also get QRPedia codes on blue plaques, monuments, and war memorials. :-)
Yes. I am sure English Heritage would jump at the prospect!
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?
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