Hoi,
In Reasonator every item incuding content from Wikibooks have their QR-code.
Thanks,
GerardM
https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?&q=237572
On 7 July 2017 at 07:22, Bodhisattwa Mandal <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There has been significant decline in library readerships in India.
> Libraries are remaining almost empty throughout the day. I believe, that is
> because, with the increasing usage of internet, there has been a change in
> behaviour about reading physical books. People are preferring to remain
> online and get information from the internet, rather than to stay in a
> library and study there. The libraries are not also coping with this
> scenario and not upgrading themselves, and losing readers.
>
> Also, the smart phone penetration in India is also increasing. It has been
> estimated almost one third of Indian citizens will use smart phone by 2019
> and that's a huge number. Nowadays, many people who do not have computers,
> have smartphones with cheaper internet than before. But many of them
> doesn't know how to search a book in internet, even if does find some book,
> tends to forget the urls, and unfortunately almost nobody knows anything
> about Wikisource, even from the academy.
>
> Now, if we have a QR code generation system for Wikisource, we can
> collaborate with the town libraries or college libraries, send them the
> codes and help them build a QR code library of books. They can give the
> codes to readers according to their demands, which will redirect them to
> Wikisource. We can also generate QR codes for every book we work on and
> upload them to Commons with a suitable title, creating a QR code library
> ourselves, thus making the codes google searchable and accessible to the
> readers. In every case, the viewership of the site will increase.
>
> Regards,
>
> On Jul 7, 2017 7:52 AM, "Asaf Bartov" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Certainly, this can be done.
>>
>> Could you elaborate a little more about the use scenarios you are
>> imagining?
>>
>> A.
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 5:32 AM Bodhisattwa Mandal <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Can we create a Wikisource specific QR code generator tool for the NS0
>>> pages?
>>>
>>> People often forget the urls or sometimes doesn't know the way to search
>>> texts in Wikisource. If we can generate qr codes, that would also benefit
>>> libraries from remote places or readers who don't have computers in their
>>> possession .
>>>
>>> I think it will definitely increase the viewership of the site to a
>>> significant amount. What's your opinion regarding this?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Bodhisattwa
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