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Welcome! Croeso!
Monmouthpedia is the first Wikipedia project to cover a whole town i.e. the Welsh town of Monmouth (/ˈmɒnməθ/ MON-məth;
Wikipedia:GLAM/MonmouthpediA Media
John Cummings, Wikipedia in “Usmaradio” for the radio program “Scuola di pensiero / School of Thought” by Iolanda Pensa, recorded at Wikimania Stockholm, Sweden, August 2019, cc by-sa all.
What is MonmouthpediA? (with French sub-titles)
MonmouthpediA Shire Hall 1 of 1000
How to create a Wikipedia Town, The Story of MonmouthpediA. Click to download .pdf
MonmouthpediA infographic
Monmouth, the World's First Wikipedia Town.
The ceramic QRpedia plaque for the River Wye on the Wye Bridge
Ceramic plaque with QRpedia code for Shire Hall, the blue plaques are for the Heritage Trail sites
A Monmouthpedia plaque in Tangier
Librarians in Monmouth Library with some of the books they have added QRpedia codes linking to the authors.
Patricia Lynesmith, curator of Monmouth Regimental Museum talks about being involved in MonmouthpediA
Signing of the memorandum of understanding between Wikimedia UK and Monmouthshire County Council
Dramatisation of the trial of the Chartists at Shire Hall, Monmouth, including background information (7 parts) Michael Booth
Roisin Curran, the Wikipedian in Residence at Monmouth Museum
Sam Downie volunteered during the Monmouthpedia Day event, 19 May 2012. In this video he talks about the event.
Welsh: Trefynwy). The project aims to cover every single notable place, people, artefacts, flora, fauna and other things in Monmouth in as many languages as possible.
Monmouthpedia will use QRpedia codes, a type of bar code a smartphone can read.
We aim to have 1,000 QRpedia codes in Monmouth by April. If you think you can help, contact info@wikimedia.org.uk.
Participate
We are very keen for local people to be involved however they wish. Computer skills are not important, it’s the interest and the willingness to be involved. If you speak another language it would be a great place to learn new vocabulary.
By the end of April, we want the community in Monmouth to see something that they - and people around the world - helped build. We've created a competition, The Charles Rolls Multilingual Challenge to rewards contributors, they are unique prizes not available anywhere else.
To arrange a session to learn how to edit Wikipedia and uploading images contact john.cummings@monmouthpedia.org there is a scanner available for scanning photographs and documents
Wikipedia group editing days (learn how to edit with other people and swap ideas)
- Sunday 26th February, 10 - 4pm Shire Hall, Monmouth
- TBA
Achievements and News in Brief
We have had a lot of media coverage at the end of December 2011 and through to the new year and had over 18,000 page views in the last week of December.
Achievements
- 100 [new articles
- 130 improved articles
- over 500 new images
- ≈400,000 more page views per year of articles relating to Monmouth