https://shkspr.mobi/blog Regular nonsense about tech and its effects 🙃 Wed, 04 Oct 2023 10:40:42 +0000 en-GB © Terence Eden. 🄯 CC BY-SA. See https://shkspr.mobi/blog/copyright-and-copyleft/ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://shkspr.mobi/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/cropped-avatar-32x32.jpeg https://shkspr.mobi/blog 32 32 https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2011/09/jimmy-wales-qrpedia/ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2011/09/jimmy-wales-qrpedia/#comments Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:39:58 +0000 http://shkspr.mobi/blog/?p=4446 <p>You know <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales">Jimmy Wales</a>, right? He's the guy co-founded Wikipedia - and, possibly, its most prominent face.</p> <p>So, a few days ago, he popped down to The Children's Museum of Indianapolis to see the work the museum is doing with its <a href="http://hstryqt.tumblr.com/post/10173352787/hosting-jimmy-wales">Wikipedian in Residence - Lori Philips</a>.</p> <p>What else did he do while he was there? Why, scanned some QRpedia codes!</p> <p><a title="The Children's Museum of Indianapolis [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons" href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:J_Wales_TCM_002.jpg"><img width="500" alt="J Wales TCM 002" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/J_Wales_TCM_002.jpg/500px-J_Wales_TCM_002.jpg"></a></p> <p><a title="The Children's Museum of Indianapolis [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons" href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:J_Wales_TCM_013.jpg"><img width="500" alt="J Wales TCM 013" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/J_Wales_TCM_013.jpg/500px-J_Wales_TCM_013.jpg"></a></p> <p><a title="The Children's Museum of Indianapolis [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons" href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ASP_4574.jpg"><img width="500" alt="ASP 4574" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/ASP_4574.jpg/500px-ASP_4574.jpg"></a></p> <p>You can see <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Jimmy_Wales_at_The_Children%27s_Museum_of_Indianapolis">all the photos of his visit on Wikimedia Commons</a>.</p> <p>My highly placed sources tell me that Mr Wales was highly impressed with the work the museum had done, and <em>loved</em> their innovative use of QRpedia.</p> <p>If you'd like to get started with QRpedia - <a href="http://qrpedia.org/">visit the main site to get started</a>. It's free, fast, and <em>fantastic</em>!</p> <img src="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/wp-content/themes/edent-wordpress-theme/info/okgo.php?ID=4446&amp;HTTP_REFERER=RSS" alt="" width="1" height="1" loading="eager"> https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2011/09/jimmy-wales-qrpedia/feed/ 1