Wikipedia:WikiProject QRpedia

A project for Wikipedians implementing QRpedia.

Want to get started? See our user guide.

Aims

  1. To encourage and assist the implementation of QRpedia by outside organisations
  2. to record those organisations' use of QRpedia on the talk pages of articles about them
  3. to document QRpedia on Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, etc.
  4. to assist in resolving bugs and issues, and the development of QRpedia

Development

The following issues are being discussed:

  • custom URLs
  • Dealing with minority languages
  • Dealing with missing articles

Case studies

See our case studies. For more general coverage, see below.

Coverage

See outreach:QRpedia#Coverage.

URL formats

QRpedia shortlinks have URLs like:

  http://en.qrwp.org/Shire_Hall,_Monmouth

Where:

  • en is the Country Code for the Wikipedia instance
  • Shire_Hall,_Monmouth is the article name in that language

QRpedia automatically detects the user's language and redirects them to a Wikipedia article in their language. A French user clicking on http://en.qrwp.org/Shire_Hall,_Monmouth would be taken to https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shire_Hall_(Monmouth) and a Russian user scanning the same code would go to https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Шайр-Холл_(Монмут)

This means the above URL could also be written as https://hi.qrwp.org/शायर_हॉल for the Hindi Wikipedia.

QRpedia images have URLs like:

  http://qrpedia.org/qr/php/qr.php?size=800&download=Shire_Hall&e=L&d=http://en.qrwp.org/Shire_Hall,_Monmouth 

where:

  • size=800 is the image size in pixels
  • e=L sets the eve of error correction (Low or High); use High for codes displayed outdoors
  • download=Shire_Hall is the file name of the image when downloaded

Statistics

Statistics for a given page can be found at e.g.:

http://stats.wikimedia.org.uk/index.php?module=CoreHome&action=index&idSite=2&date=today&period=month&segment=pageTitle==Wikipedia:WikiProject_QRpedia

Note that qrwp is site #2 in the statistics database (the idSite parameter above). It's a separate site to qrpedia, which is #1.

Templates

User templates

Place this template on your user page:

It will appear like this:

This user is a member of
WikiProject QRpedia.


Article talk page templates

Add one of these to the talk pages of articles, thus:

  • {{WikiProject QRpedia}} - articles about organisations that use QRpedia
  • {{WikiProject QRpedia|article=yes}} - articles targeted by QRpedia codes

They will appear like this:

WikiProject iconQRpedia
WikiProject iconThe organisation featured in this article uses QRpedia. For further information, please see WikiProject QRpedia.
WikiProject iconQRpedia
WikiProject iconThis article is linked to by one or more organisations, using QRpedia. Statistics are available. For further information, please see WikiProject QRpedia.

Documents

  • Template documents for word-processing QRpedia labels and posters are available.
  • FreoWiki's QRpedia generator produces printable plaques from lists of (any) page names.


Categories

Bugs and feature requests

If you have any requests for improvements, or have noticed any bugs, please report them using the QRpedia bug tracking system. That way we can all track everyone's requests, and see what others have asked for before duplicating them.

Script

Adding Roger's script to your user pages will put a "create QR code" link in your toolbox.

Members

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