We had a bit of a mix up with the journalist as I told him we had been shortlisted for the SmartUK award and then I realised it was not public knowledge. I think the piece is very well written and includes more that just what we told him. Hes done some research! I thought we were on the "cutting room floor" - Monmouthshire CC will be very pleaseed wit this I think and it shows what we can do.
Hope WMUK editors are still plugging away at Monmouth articles - we do have 50 so far (approx) Roger On 26 January 2012 17:39, Richard Symonds <[email protected]>wrote: > Aye, I just saw it too! Matthew Roth (from WMF) is impressed about the > coverage, and overall it's not a bad piece... > > Richard Symonds > Office& Development Manager > Wikimedia UK > +44 (0)207 065 0991 > > > > On 26/01/2012 17:30, Andy Mabbett wrote: > >> There's a great article about MonmoutpediA in the Guardian today; >> congratulations to all involved, it's a great advert for our work, >> despite some (baseless) naysaying. >> >> However (there's always a catch!), the article says: >> >> By April the aim is to dot 1,000 QR codes – a barcode that smartphones >> can >> read – around the border town. Visitors will be able to use their >> phones to scan >> the QR codes and view the Wikipedia page (in the language their phone >> is set >> up for) relevant to where they are standing. >> >> which is good, but doesn't use the word QRpedia. can we try to >> include/. emphasise that name on our marketing; or if we did, >> encourage journalists to use it? >> >> > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l<http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l> > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > -- Roger Bamkin Chair WMUK <http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board> 01332 702993 0758 2020815 Google+:Victuallers Skype:Victuallers1 Flickr:Victuallers2
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