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.

URL formats
QRpedia shortlinks have URLs like:

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

Where:


 * is the Country Code for the Wikipedia instance
 * 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:


 * is the image size in pixels
 * sets the eve of error correction ( ow or igh); use  igh for codes displayed outdoors
 * 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==

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

User templates
Place this template on your user page:
 * User WP QRpedia

It will appear like this:

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


 * WikiProject QRpedia - articles about organisations that use QRpedia
 * - articles targeted by QRpedia codes

They will appear like this:

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

 * Category:Organisations using QRpedia
 * Category:Articles linked to by QRpedia

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

 * Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing) - project founder
 * Peter Weis
 * Lori Phillips - Wikipedian in Residence, The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
 * Rock drum
 * user:mrjohncummings Monmouthpedia
 * Victuallers - Crowd Sourcery?
 * Terence Eden - Brains and coding
 * Jane023 - Big fan. QRpedia is awesome
 * Kippelboy - QRpedia implemented at Fundació Joan Miró
 * AroundTheGlobe
 * Smallbones
 * Whiteghost.ink
 * Romaine/Romaine - like to get it in Belgium/the Netherlands
 * Sam Wilson, Fremantle, Western Australia
 * Gnangarra, Freopedia, Toodyay, Waroona -- Western Australia
 * KwishaKwisha, Would like to get it in Kenya.
 * Steel1943 (talk) - Discovered this project and QRpedia in general on 16 November 2016 (and wish I had known about it from its inception in 2011.) This definitely has a huge value in museums, etc where it is probably already being used on a large scale. My goal here is to do anything I can to help out with ensuring that incoming QR links are as safe from link rot as possible on a long-term scale while at the same time ensuring that such measures do not disrupt the use of Wikipedia for all readers/editors.
 * User:Ｔｏｍ (de:Benutzer Diskussion:Ｔｏｍ), Germany, Support for QR-Codes in Museums und Member of de:Portal:Militär