Geni This is an excelent idea - of course if we mounted a bar code as well and they had wi fi or internet phone carrying customers then we could use Google Goggles and supply it in different languages....
I tried suggesting this at one museum and I got the impression that they were worried about "doing their job" of course they can use our text and take nearly all the credit for just doing a print. Roger On 31 January 2011 23:39, geni <[email protected]> wrote: > I was recently in the Portsmouth natural history museum (or as the > natives call it Cumberland House). When I was there I saw this: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/58992329@N03/5406060116/ > > If you look at the text in the right column (may need to view image at > full size) you will find that it is not only dated (it's treating 1982 > as recent) but is treating the [[Almas (cryptozoology)]] thing > seriously. The museum doesn't really have any money so this isn't > something that is likely to be fixed by them any time soon. > > I think offering to replace it with wikipedia based text along the > lines of say [[User:Geni/museum_sign]] would fall within 7-8 of: > > http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Business_Plan#Mission_and_Objectives > > I don't know how much doing such a replacement would cost but I would > be surprised if it passed the limit of our micro grant program. > Wikimedia-UK would need to be involved to cover use of the logo and > the like. > > ==Advantages== > > *Museum gets a better sign > *New way to spread wikipedia content > *Gives us the chance to produce a real world example of the type of > signs we would like to see (QR code and the like) > *Helps draw attention to gaps in Wikipedia (in this case it failed to > mention how much Neanderthals weigh) > *It may get us some good will with the Portsmouth museum service which > since they hold one of the larger collections of ship paintings could > be kinda handy > *May get us some new editors who are interested in working on such signs. > *It's a concrete real world activity that we can point to as an > example of what we are doing. > > ==Disadvantages== > > *Might be more expensive than expected > *Images are an issue in this case (need to check copyright status of > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Homo_neanderthalensis_models > ) > *Scale we can do this on is limited both financially and finding > people to write such signs > > ==Neutral== > > *They might say no > > -- > geni > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > -- Roger Bamkin (aka Victuallers)
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