On 26 October 2011 12:21, Andrew West <[email protected]> wrote: > On 25 October 2011 23:07, Andy Mabbett <[email protected]> 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 memorial, and have that point to relevant pages on commons/ >> Wikisource, and the book. > > I would have thought that very few war memorials would be notable > enough to merit their own article on Wikipedia,
I think many are sufficiently notable; especially if we are able to source information about the people they commemorate. > and even if an article > did exist, it would not be the place to put all the letters and > ephemera associated with the individual soldiers listed on the > memorial. That's not what I'm suggesting; the Wikipedia article should link to the relevant commons/wiki-source pages/ categories (and a category per memorial would be appropriate in such cases) >In my opinion, Brian's suggestion of using Wikibooks to > gather together all the scans, transcripts and other relevent > information in a single place, and linking to it from a QR code is > definitely the best solution. I'm not sure that presenting a mobile device users, especially one with a casual interest, with a link to a Wikibook is the best approach. > I think that it is dubious whether a QRpedia code is warranted in this > case, although potentially a Gaelic Wikibooks project (does not > currently exist) could mirror the contents of the English Wikibooks; > and for a similar project about Welsh soldiers there is both an > English and a Welsh Wikibooks project that could both host the > information. You'd loose the language-detection facility offered by QRpedia. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
