On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Roger Bamkin victuall...@gmail.com wrote:
On a more mundane point we have been asked to supply Wikisource via QRpedia
mundane!?! .. very cool! ;-)
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On 25 October 2011 22:55, Brian McNeil brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org wrote:
Following on from Fae and myself meeting Robin Urquart of the National
Archives of Scotland, I'm looking for people who may be interested in
working on a WW-I related GLAM project.
This is also pertinent:
This may be relevant:
http://m.spiegel.de/international/europe/a-794103.html
' WWI Grave Find Tells Story Germans Want To Forget'
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On 27 Oct 2011, at 10:59, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote:
I might upset a few people here, but,... Why does this even have to in
any way link to Wikipedia?
Just because we've a pet 800lb gorilla is no reason to point people at
it repeatedly.
Because Wikipedia has the
On 27 October 2011 00:44, Brian McNeil brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org wrote:
I might upset a few people here, but,... Why does this even have to in
any way link to Wikipedia?
[else where you also said The point here is not to drive traffic to
Wikipedia]
I'm not concerned with driving traffic to
With regard to notability, all war monuments are landmarks potentially
worthy of a Wikipedia article. Due to how difficult it is to source
the material, I would encourage any group or individual to consider
extending (or more likely creating) the article for the local town or
village that created
I might upset a few people here, but,... Why does this even have to in
any way link to Wikipedia?
Just because we've a pet 800lb gorilla is no reason to point people at
it repeatedly.
Because Wikipedia has the biggest audience. Most partners care about getting
audience and exposure for
If the QR code is for use on mobile phones then we may not want much more
than a stub either. What is the maximum article size that would work on the
typical modern phone?
WereSpielChequers
On 25 October 2011 23:32, Brian McNeil brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org wrote:
That's the sort of feedback
Longer articles work fine on mobiles, because the lede is shown,
followed by the other sections, collapsed, and which can be expanded
individually if and when required by the user.
On 26 October 2011 11:10, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote:
If the QR code is for use on mobile
On 26 October 2011 11:56, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk
wrote:
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/
Following on from Fae and myself meeting Robin Urquart of the National
Archives of Scotland, I'm looking for people who may be interested in
working on a WW-I related GLAM project.
This is very interesting stuff - thank you for taking it on. :-)
Here are a few thoughts...
I imagine both
On 25 October 2011 23:07, Andy Mabbett a...@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
It would be really interesting to see a GLAM initiative which used
Wikisource as a transcription interface.
...
Chris
The best GLAM example of using Wikisource so far is Dominic's work
with NARA in the USA - see
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:WikiProject_NARA/Completed.
I used the
Size of Qr codes is governed by three things:
* Number of characters encoded
* Amount of error correction
* Expected distance from the user's device
The first two of those determine the number of squares making up the
code, the latter the size of those squares
On 26 October 2011 12:13, Gordon
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 22:55, Brian McNeil brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org wrote:
A QR code could be placed at a relevant war memorial,
Is that such a good idea?
I like QR codes as much as the next person, but sticking them on war
memorials may probing the limits of taste in Wikimedia outreach.
On 26 October 2011 17:55, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote:
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 22:55, Brian McNeil brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org
wrote:
A QR code could be placed at a relevant war memorial,
Is that such a good idea?
I like QR codes as much as the next person, but sticking them on
On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 17:55 +0100, Tom Morris wrote:
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 22:55, Brian McNeil brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org
wrote:
A QR code could be placed at a relevant war memorial,
Is that such a good idea?
I like QR codes as much as the next person, but sticking them on war
: [Wikimediauk-l] [GLAM] Soldiers' letters
From: Brian McNeil brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org
Date: Wed, October 26, 2011 10:37 pm
To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org
On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 17:55 +0100, Tom Morris wrote:
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 22:55, Brian McNeil brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org wrote
On 26 October 2011 22:37, Brian McNeil brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org wrote:
I'm glad to see others chime in regarding the potential for certain
memorials being non-notable, or having insufficient reliable sources to
get beyond stub status. The point here is not to drive traffic to
Wikipedia,
: [Wikimediauk-l] [GLAM] Soldiers' letters
From: Brian McNeil brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org
Date: Wed, October 26, 2011 10:37 pm
To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org
On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 17:55 +0100, Tom Morris wrote:
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 22:55
On 25 October 2011 22:55, Brian McNeil brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org wrote:
All good stuff, but...
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
I was assuming that part of the project would involve making sure the
article wasn't just a stub...
On 25 October 2011 23:32, Brian McNeil brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org wrote:
That's the sort of feedback I'm looking for, thanks.
I've no intention of vigorously arguing one way or the other, but I
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