In all of your discussion I have not undertood why someone should go to the library to have a qrcode while it is available online.
Kind regards On 7 Jul 2017 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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikisource-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikisource-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > >
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