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This is what we attempted to do with Qrpedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qrpedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qrpedia - a project to link QR codes to (mu
by edent 11y ago
This is what we attempted to do with Qrpedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qrpedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qrpedia - a project to link QR codes to (multi lingual) Wikipedia pages.
The major sticking points were around museums wanting to control the content themselves - even if their websites weren't mobile friendly or translated - and educating people into installing a QR reader (admittedly, no more difficult than getting them to install your museum's app).
The project is still in use with a number of zoos, galleries, and museums - but the QR stickers do occasionally fall off the exhibits
- IshKebab 11y agoAlso the fact that "Ok google, wikipedia foo" is far far easier than using (and possibly installing) a QR reader app. Maybe if camera apps also functioned as QR readers automatically they might have gained some traction. But Google never enabled that functionality for some reason.
- edent 11y agoTrue - up to a point. Most popular museums are too noisy for effective voice recognition.