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Welcome! Croeso!
Monmouthpedia is the first Wikipedia project to cover a whole town - specifically, the Welsh town of Monmouth (Welsh: Trefynwy). The project aims to cover every single notable place, people, artefacts, flora, fauna and other things in Monmouth in as many languages as possible, but with a special focus on Welsh.

The amount, detail and quality of the information that the community could create is staggering. The Council for British Archaeology have designated Monmouth as the seventh best town for archaeology in Britain. Knowledge gives us context, it allows us to appreciate our surroundings more: Monmouth may well be first place in the world to offer its tourist information in over 250 languages.

Monmouthpedia will use QRpedia codes, a type of bar code a smartphone can read through its camera that takes you to a Wikipedia article in your language. QR codes are extremely useful, as physical signs have no way of displaying the same amount of information and in a potentially huge number of languages.

Articles will have coordinates (geotags) to allow a virtual tour of the town using the Wikipedia layer on Google Streetview, Google Maps and will be available in augmented reality software including Layar. MonmouthpediA may not use standard black and white QR codes, in order to differentiate between MonmouthpediA codes and other schemes and individual's codes.

There will be different kinds of QR code - plaques and labels - all put up with the permission of the council and building owner:
 * Larger ceramic or metal plaques for places exposed to the elements for articles specific to Monmouth.
 * Smaller biodegradable plastic, ceramic or metal plaques for labelling objects non specific to Monmouth, e.g. for use in the Flora and Fauna guide.
 * Labels for use inside buildings, e.g. for objects in museums.
 * In addition there will be information posters, signs, notice boards and leaflets to help people contribute and stay informed.

We aim to have 1,000 QRpedia codes in Monmouth by April including the museums. If you think you can help, contact info@wikimedia.org.uk.

Twitter: @MonmouthpediA Monmouthpedia Facebook group

Participate
We are very keen for local people to be involved however they wish. Computer skills are not important, it’s the interest and the willingness to be involved, suggesting and writing content, taking and donating photos and recommending good reference materials. If you speak another language (especially Welsh) it would be a great place to practice your writing skills and learn new vocabulary and grammar. There is a wealth of opportunities for community involvement, including teaching and learning of IT skills, local history, natural history, languages and people of different ages working together. Please click here to learn more

By the end of April, we want the community in Monmouth to see something that they - and people around the world - helped build.

Achievements and News in Brief
We have had a lot of media coverage at the end of December 2011 and through to the new year and had over 18,000 page views in the last week of December.

Achievements

 * 58 new articles
 * 88 improved articles
 * Church of St Thomas the Martyr, Monmouth on the Wikipedia main page in Did You Know? 27th December
 * HMS Monmouth (1796) on the Wikipedia main page in Did You Know? 14th January
 * Savoy Theatre, Monmouth on the Wikipedia main page in Did You Know? 17th January
 * St Mary's Priory Church, Monmouth on the Wikipedia main page in Did You Know? 20th January
 * Monmouthshire Show on the Wikipedia main page in Did You Know? 20th January
 * Monmouth Methodist Church on the Wikipedia main page in Did You Know? 22nd January
 * St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Monmouth on the Wikipedia main page in Did You Know? 23rd January
 * Market Hall, Monmouth on the Wikipedia main page in Did You Know? 26th January
 * Monmouth Cap will be on the Wikipedia main page in Did You Know? on St David's Day, 1st March

News
full press coverage on achievements and news page press contacts: john.cummings@undefinedmonmouthpedia.org and info@undefinedwikimedia.org.uk
 * Wikipedia puts Monmouth on frontier of a new kind of local history. Guardian, 26 January
 * Wikipedia project to cover life in Monmouth, BBC News, 30 December
 * Monmouth becomes the world’s first Wikipedia town monmouthshire.gov.uk, 2 January
 * Is Monmouthpedia The Future Of Wikipedia?, TechDirt, 5 January
 * Monmouth chosen for new Wikipedia venture, Monmouthshire Beacon, 29 Dec
 * Wikipedia vai criar a Monmouthpedia, Sol (Portuguese) 30 December
 * Wikipedia analizará la vida en un pueblo británico, Baquía (Spanish) 30 December

Online
Please add yourself to this list if you contribute to an article, sign it using four tildes ~ or click the Signature and Timestamp icon on the edit bar


 * John Cummings, facilitator Mrjohncummings (talk) 01:06, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Rob Campbell, Monmouth Old Salt (talk) 18:38, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Philbly (talk) 16:25, 3 December 2011 (UTC)Phil Bly, Monmouth
 * Iopensa (talk) 21:22, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Guy Hamilton - Ghmyrtle (talk) 09:32, 5 December 2011 (UTC) .  In Chepstow, relatively experienced WP editor on local and other articles, happy to help out.
 * Honorine Jobert (talk) 16:57, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
 * welsh (talk) 08:33, 1 January 2012 (UTC) Particularly wider Monmouthshire and railways
 * Victuallers (talk) 16:14, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
 * The Cavalry (Message me) 02:53, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Owain (talk) 19:26, 6 January 2012 (UTC) &mdash; Newport, Monmouthshire
 * Martinevans123 (talk) 23:18, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
 * KJP1 (talk) 00:50 14 January 2012 - general architecture/history stuff
 * Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:43, 17 January 2012 (UTC) Happy to help where I can: coordinates, templates, metadata/ microformats, QRpedia

Partners

 * Wikimedia UK
 * Monmouth Civic Society
 * Monmouth Shire Hall
 * Monmouthshire County Council
 * Monmouth Museum
 * Monmouth Castle Museum
 * Monmouth Archaeological Society
 * University of Wales, Newport, South Wales Centre for Historical and Interdisciplinary Research
 * Swan Craft Studio

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