Re: [Wikimediauk-l] QRpedia press release: Technological landmark for award-winning Birmingham Moor Street station

2012-05-30 Thread Gordon Joly
On 30/05/12 04:14, HJ Mitchell wrote: I find QR codes a little hard to get excited about (perhaps because I don't own a smartphone). Another issue is that they are mysterious dots in a square. You don't know where they will take you. This is of course true of all encoded data, including th

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] QRpedia press release: Technological landmark for award-winning Birmingham Moor Street station

2012-05-30 Thread David Gerard
On 30 May 2012 10:12, Gordon Joly wrote: > QRPr0n codes? Real-world porn spam. Spammers are already putting QR codes in email spam ... - d. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimed

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] QRpedia press release: Technological landmark for award-winning Birmingham Moor Street station

2012-05-30 Thread Roger Bamkin
QRpedia has been reviewed very positively wrt security. The review notes that the qrwp.org re-routing and that the urls are human readable as good points. hmmm QRcode email spam? Is the takeup of QR codes that enthusiastic? I'd be curious to see their scan rates :-) On 30 May 2012 10:18, David Ger

[Wikimediauk-l] Merchandise, etc

2012-05-30 Thread Richard Symonds
All, A lot of Wikipedia t-shirts, mugs, etc have been dispersed around the country for various events, and I'm trying to keep track of them and ensure that they're being used effectively. The last thing we want is dozens of tshirts sitting under someone's bed, unused and forgotten! If you've got

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Merchandise, etc

2012-05-30 Thread Thomas Dalton
I think I may still have a pile of 10th birthday t-shirts somewhere... they're rather out of date now, but I can try and remember where I put them if you want them. On 30 May 2012 11:50, Richard Symonds wrote: > All, > > A lot of Wikipedia t-shirts, mugs, etc have been dispersed around the > coun

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] QRpedia press release: Technological landmark for award-winning Birmingham Moor Street station

2012-05-30 Thread Deryck Chan
I invoke rule 34 on QR codes. On May 30, 2012 10:18 AM, "David Gerard" wrote: > On 30 May 2012 10:12, Gordon Joly wrote: > > > QRPr0n codes? > > > Real-world porn spam. Spammers are already putting QR codes in email spam > ... > > > - d. > > ___ > Wiki

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] QRpedia press release: Technological landmark for award-winning Birmingham Moor Street station

2012-05-30 Thread Richard Symonds
I have just had to explain to the office what Rule 34 is. Thanks, Deryck :-) Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Disclaimer viewable at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Email_disclaimer Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk On 30 May 2012 13:13, Deryck Chan wrote: >

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] QRpedia press release: Technological landmark for award-winning Birmingham Moor Street station

2012-05-30 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 30 May 2012 10:12, Gordon Joly wrote: > On 30/05/12 04:14, HJ Mitchell wrote: [QR codes] > Another issue is that they are mysterious dots in a square. You don't know > where they will take you. This is not an issue for the QRpedia codes at Moor Street, nor in Monmouth and elsewhere, which a

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] QRpedia press release: Technological landmark for award-winning Birmingham Moor Street station

2012-05-30 Thread Thomas Dalton
You knew there was a reason they kept you around! On May 30, 2012 1:44 PM, "Richard Symonds" wrote: > I have just had to explain to the office what Rule 34 is. Thanks, Deryck > :-) > > Richard Symonds > Wikimedia UK > 0207 065 0992 > Disclaimer viewable at > http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia

[Wikimediauk-l] Listadmin wanted for wikimediauk-l

2012-05-30 Thread David Gerard
Andrew Turvey has quit as listadmin so we could probably do with a spare. Present admins are me, James Forrester, Mike Peel and Richard Symonds. Mailman is easy to administer. The workload is minimal - checking the spam filter when you can be bothered. Any volunteers? Please email wikimediauk-l-