Tom, * Update at Derby* Terence's blog looks very useful. If anyone is in travelling distance of Derby main museum then there are now some demo QR codes in their geology and natural history section. Comments welcomed. Bravely they agreed to "just do it". Help from Fae and JamesB enabled us to laminate some codes and get them mounted. Assuming we clear out teething problems then wikipedians can write an article on (say) a Joseph Wright Painting and have it available on Wikipedia but they can also have that article available to the museums customers. This will supplement the existing labels.
The demo session should allow the museum to find out what size works and whether low-light or being behing glass hinders readability. Anyone got real experience of minimum size to allow 99% of phones to be able to scan it? Wikipedia issues so far - We could do with a tool that allows a lot of Wikipedia articles to be droppin and it then creates nice A4 pages of QRCodes that are annotated with the url and the articles title. It is possible to use scissors and a laminator for a dozen labels but museums will need 100s. - Language is an issue. Its never occured to me, but its odd that I log on to wikipedia using the en: main page. I deally I should just log in to wikipedia.org and my computer tells the site that I normally use English to view articles. - Most museum staff are not equipped with smart phones to demonstrate how this works to visitors This looks like it will be a feature of our collaboration with Derby Museums. Do sign up if you have helped or hope to attend in April. Oh and there are pictures on Flickr .... I'll move them to commons cheers Victuallers On 4 February 2011 12:36, Tom Morris <t...@tommorris.org> wrote: > I told a mate of mine, Terence Eden, a mobile technologist who writes > frequently on his blog about how to do QR codes properly, about this > thread. > > He's put up a post on his blog with some advice that could help > Wikimedia do QR codes properly. > > http://shkspr.mobi/blog/?p=3586 > > His previous entries on how companies do QR codes wrong are worth > reading through: > > http://shkspr.mobi/blog/index.php/tag/qr-codes/ > > -- > Tom Morris > <http://tommorris.org/> > > Please don't print this e-mail out unless you want a hard copy of it. > If you do, go ahead. I won't stop you. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > -- Roger Bamkin (aka Victuallers)
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