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| Visitors and worshippers at St Paul’s Church in the Jewellery Quarter of Birmingham have a new way to learn about the history of the church. This beautiful, Grade I listed building has become the first church in the world to utilise QRpedia codes.
| | The Russian language Wikipedia is blacked out today in response to a proposed law "on information". The decision was taken by around 300 members of the Russian language Wikipedia community and is an independent action. The below text is taken from Wikimedia Russia's blog (with some very minor amends). You can see the blog in the original Russian, alongside English, here |
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| QRpedia codes – a variation of QR (or Quick Response) codes – are objects that can be scanned using a smartphone, which then direct you to a Wikipedia page about the object or location, in the language used by the phone – so providing multi-lingual content to overseas and local visitors alike.
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| As well as a code linking to the article about the church itself, others provide information about famous parishioners such as James Watt and Matthew Boulton – who both had their own pews in the church. We can only wonder what such scientific pioneers would have made of this innovative technology. <span class="plainlinks">[http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2012/07/world-first-for-st-pauls-church-birmingham/<nowiki>[</nowiki>...<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</span>
| | Wikipedia in Russian will be closed on 10 July because of Russian parliament’s debating of amendments to the law about information (in Russian) that could create real censorship of the internet — a blacklisting and filtering of internet sites. |
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