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Channel: Kath Morton-Smith
Date: 2012-03-22

Monmouthpedia is the first Wikipedia project to cover a whole town - Monmouth, UK.

The project aims to cover every single notable place, people, artefacts, flora, fauna and other things in Monmouth in as many languages as possible, but with a special focus on Welsh. This is a different scale of wiki-project.

Monmouthshire County Council intend to install free town-wide wifi for this project.

Monmouth gives visitors and locals an unparalleled experience of the place. It belongs to and can be contributed to by everyone and involves people from all over the world contributing their time and knowledge.

The project covers all important aspects of life in the town and this allows people to use their computers and smartphones to access information online.

MonmouthpediA will use QRpedia codes, a type of bar code a smartphone can read through its camera that takes you to a Wikipedia article. QR codes are extremely useful, as physical signs have no way of displaying the same amount of information and in a potentially huge number of languages.

Monmouthpedia aims to have 1,000 QRpedia codes in Monmouth this year. If you think you can help contact info@wikimedia.org.uk. Follow Monmouthpedia on Twitter @Monmouthpedia