Yes, that is what I was thinking. It may be easier to first find the willing places and then upgrade the articles if necessary.
And it would be useful to kill multiple birds with one stone. Because the Museum of Democracy at old Parliament House has a permanent exhibition on the prime ministers: http://moadoph.gov.au/exhibitions/prime-ministers-of-australia-exhibition/ they might not be amenable to QR plaques (but I guess you never know until you ask), but on closer inspection, Ballarat Gardens might indeed be the place to try: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Ministers_Avenue because it appears they have busts of all the PMs and (I would imagine) no easy way to display information about them, so perhaps an ideal opportunity for QR plaques! Kerry _____ From: Gnangarra [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, 3 February 2014 9:53 AM To: Kerry Raymond; Wikimedia Australia Chapter Subject: Re: [Wikimediaau-l] QR code proposal The aim is to improve the number of articles of a reasonable standard, there are many articles that need very little to get them past GA its just encouraging someone to make that effort. Yes bios are harder to find suitable places thats why the focus is towards heritage buildings, places, statues etc many of which are in public type ownership which are easier to get permissions from. Taking the Andrew Fisher article, we could approach the old Parliament and look to QR code every PM article as they have a hall with limited information on each Most people responded happily to a written request. running with less increase the cost, the smaller the batch the higher the costs. On 3 February 2014 07:31, Kerry Raymond <[email protected]> wrote: I think it's a good idea. But then I took a quick look at the list of the GA articles for Australia. Yes, 500+ of them, but an awful lot don't seem to have an obvious "place" to put a plaque. http://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes <http://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Austral ia&quality=GA-Class> &projecta=Australia&quality=GA-Class Just starting with the first on the list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Fisher where would we put a plaque for him? He's got a couple of memorials in the UK (where he was born and died) and there is a bust of him in Ballarat (a city with which he does not appear to have been associated). I think we'd face a similar problem with many of the GAs being biographies. Also, in your Freopedia experience, how much time has to go into getting permission from the owner of the place where we want to put the plaque? Again, with Freopedia, you were "on the ground" and probably well-connected. But Australia-wide it's probably going to be "cold-calling" in a lot of situations. Did you contact people directly yourself or get introduced by a local historical society or .? Also, are there any constraints on the number of plaques in a batch? How few could we start with? You mention 100 as a trial in the proposal. Is that the minimum? Or could we run with less? Kerry _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gnangarra Sent: Sunday, 2 February 2014 7:25 PM To: Wikimedia-au Subject: [Wikimediaau-l] QR code proposal Hi Everyone During todays iirc discussion its was suggested that WMAU would create QR codes of articles which achieve GA status. This would enable everyone to participate in the WikiTown format without creating a full project, this will work especially well for places where you have a connection and can assist in gaining permission to install the plaque. The proposal is at http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Proposal:QR_codes_GA_articles Please join the discussion Gideon _______________________________________________ Wikimediaau-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
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