Ämne på Projektdiskussion:QRpedia-stad 2013

Please excuse my writing in English. Riksbyggen seems like an amazing city; surely there are more than 100 places worth marking. And it would be more cost effective to have more markers, no? I love the idea of a wikitown, but the implementations always seem to be quite small. Warm regards.

Hello, SJ. Riksbyggen is not a city, it is a company who has a fund we applied money from (which we did not get). You are right that it will be more cost effective to have more markers. The reason for such a low number is that it was what we felt was realistic in terms of where we could actually place signs.

Thanks Jan. That makes sense. I thought it was a city or town owned by national housing cooperatives, which seemed quite remarkable. I understand the concern about now being able to place more signs; I wish that this and other wikitown projects would write in more detail about the difficulties in placement. Since this is also connected to issues of preservation and scalability: will the markers be removed soon? How long will they remain; will they inspire other markers? Will this progress towards a higher density of smaller, less noticeable/intrusive signs? &c.

Yeah, these are good thoughts. Right now we are having discussions with an organisation that already have signs around in the city to see if we could join our forces. I think that would be a win-win situation that also make us more sustainable.