QRpedia

Rarity: Rare

A topic known well beyond its field, found in many languages.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Invention

Domain

Society

Knowledge cost

4

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

QRpedia is a mobile Web-based system which uses QR codes to deliver Wikipedia articles to users, in their preferred language. A typical use is on museum labels, linking to Wikipedia articles about the exhibited object.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “QRpedia”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Screenshot by Rosty, MIT, via Wikimedia Commons.