Creating the World's First Wikipedia Town
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Talk by Roger Bamkin, Director of Wikimedia UK on Tue 16 Oct 2012 at the DMU Transdisciplinary Common Room http://transdisciplinarydmu.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/augmented-reality-creating-worlds-first.html
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- 1. Click to edit Master title style British Museum Main Page Derby Welcome Who QRpedia When http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorish Bristol Where _Gibraltar Why Monmouth How Gibraltar Roger Bamkin This presentation is CC-BY-SA except for logos and screen prints which are Fair Use or used with permission and the geotagged map 1 De Monffort University 15 October 2012
- 2. Click to edit Master title style British Museum Main Page Derby Welcome Who QRpedia When http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorish Bristol Where _Gibraltar Why Monmouth How Gibraltar 2
- 3. Click to edit Master title style British Museum 1. Google Main Page Derby Welcome 2. Facebook Who QRpedia 3. YouTube When http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorish Bristol 4. Yahoo Where _Gibraltar Why Monmouth 5. Baidu.com How 6. Blogger.com Gibraltar 7. Wikipedia This is us. We have > 400 million users/ month 8. Windows Live 9. Twitter 3 10. QQ.com
- 4. Click to edit Master title style British Museum Main Page Derby Welcome Who QRpedia When Bristol Where Why Monmouth How Gibraltar 4
- 5. Click to edit Master title style British Museum In Reality On Wikipedia Main Page Derby Welcome Who QRpedia When http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorish Bristol Where _Gibraltar Why Monmouth How Gibraltar Derby Museum Derby Museum is a small regional museum The wiki article was OK 5
- 6. Click to edit Master title style British Museum Main Page Derby Welcome Who After one meeting QRpedia When As a result of the meetings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorish Bristol Where _Gibraltar We wrote 10-20 articles Why Monmouth How The Derby Museum article Gibraltar spread quickly to a dozen Derby Museum article now languages mentioned ~ 40 objects. It was bigger. And better 6
- 7. Click to edit Master title style British Museum Main Page Derby Welcome We wanted to use QR codes in addition to labels Who QRpedia When http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorish We installed QR codes in Derby Bristol Where _Gibraltar museum on sample objects Why Monmouth Visitors were reading facts not How Gibraltar written by curators QR Code Devised in 1994 by Toyota. Both Wikipedians and curators Used in UK as a gimmick could edit the Wikipedia page for marketing. 7
- 8. Click to edit Master title style British Museum Main Page Derby Welcome Who QRpedia When Bristol Where Why Monmouth How Gibraltar 8
- 9. Click to edit Master title style British Museum Main Page Derby Welcome By April all QR codes replaced Who QRpedia When We created a web site to receive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorish Bristol Where _Gibraltar the QRpedia requests Why Monmouth The website recognises the How Gibraltar QRpedia Code language of the users phone •First used at Derby It redirects to the correct article in Museums in April 2011 the language defined by the phone •Allows mobile access to Devised by Bamkin and Terence Eden the Wikipedia page in your 9 language
- 10. Click to edit QRpedia work? How does Master title style British Museum Main Page Derby Welcome Who But where QRpedia When will we find http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorish Bristol Where _Gibraltar all the Why extra text Monmouth in French, How Gibraltar German , Polish etc? We will ... ... And you can do it 10 NOW!
- 11. Ben e f it ^ Click to edit Master title style “Collateral damage” British Museum Main Page The Wikipedia article about Derby is now in 60 languages. Derby Welcome Most objects in the museum now have a QRpedia code. Who QRpedia When However: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorish Bristol Where _Gibraltar Nearby bridges got articles, churches, the library next door, castles, Why Monmouth archaeological sites and in different languages How Gibraltar Paintings that people thought were in Derby (but are not) got articles Paintings that were in storage got articles 11
- 12. Click to edit Master title style British Museum Main Page The article was written in Derby Welcome French Who QRpedia ... translated into English When http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorish Bristol Where _Gibraltar ... and then into Russian Why Monmouth How ... Featured on the Gibraltar Russian main page Where 53,000 read it 12
- 13. Clickarticles on Derby Museum exhibits 1,200 to edit Master title style British Museum Main Page Derby Welcome Who QRpedia When http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorish Bristol Where _Gibraltar Why Monmouth How Gibraltar 13
- 14. Click to edit Master title style British Museum Main Page Derby Welcome Who QRpedia When http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorish Bristol Where _Gibraltar Why Monmouth How Gibraltar 14 Who wrote them all?
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- 16. Click to edit Master title style British Museum Main Page Derby Welcome Who QRpedia When Bristol Where Why Monmouth How Gibraltar 16
- 17. Click to edit Master title style British Museum Main Page Derby Welcome Who QRpedia When http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorish Bristol Where _Gibraltar UK Museums Why Monmouth How Gibraltar 17
- 18. Click to edit Master title style British Museum Main Page Derby Welcome Who QRpedia When Bristol Where Why Monmouth How Gibraltar 18
- 19. Click to edit Master title style British Museum Main Page Derby Welcome Who QRpedia When Bristol Where Why Monmouth How Gibraltar 19
- 20. Click to edit Master title style British Museum Main Page Derby Welcome Who QRpedia When Bristol Where Why Monmouth Why Gibraltar? How Gibraltar It really is bi-lingual Its culturally rich Its 3 times the population of Monmouth 21 Its almost a country
- 21. Click to edit Master title style British Museum Main Page Derby Welcome Who QRpedia When Bristol Where Why Monmouth How Gibraltar 22
- 22. Click to edit Master title style British Museum Main Page Derby Welcome Who QRpedia When Bristol Where Why Monmouth How Gibraltar 23
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Editor's Notes
- A1 Hello etc. This talk is called ..... We think it should be called “transforming a city from a museum” We are going to talk about technology because that's what we use. However the job of Wikimedia UK is part of a global movement to
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- C3 Wikimedia and our most famous project (Wikipedia) is full of big numbers. 3.7m articles in English, over 100 languages, over 10 m articles. Possibly the most amazing is that we have over 400 million different people visit our site every month. We are in the top ten web sites in the World .... And we are free!
- L12 Actually Derby museum’s article was unusually large before we started. In reality it not such a grand museum as Bristol's main museum or the M Shed but in cyberspace on Wikipedia it probably scored 6/10 for a museum
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- P16 Steve thinks we need more explanation of how QRpedia works
- P16 supplemental You find a QR code in this case one for Derby Museum, you click on it with in this case a phone set to operate in Japanese and because of this Qrpedia displays not the English page, not a translation, but an article about this museum written by someone in Japan.
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- Google uses the number of links to decide how important a page is. On non-English Wiki s-best UK museum will not be National Museum of Wales Optimisation is done using links. Derby Museum=1200