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Wikimedia subject-area collaboration

"WP:QR" redirects here. For the QR code generator, see Special:QrCode.

A project for Wikipedians implementing QRpedia.

Want to get started? See our user guide.

  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

The following issues are being discussed:

See our case studies. For more general coverage, see below.

See outreach:QRpedia#Coverage.

QRpedia shortlinks have URLs like:

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

Where:

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:

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==Wikipedia:WikiProject_QRpedia

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

Place this template on your user page:

It will appear like this:

Article talk page templates

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

They will appear like this:

Wikimedia Commons logo

Wikimedia Commons has media related to QRpedia.

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.

Adding Roger's script to your user pages will put a "create QR code" link in your toolbox.