On 2/15/08, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
We're planning to set up 4 data displays in the
Wikimedia Foundation
office - I'm thinking at least 19" screens, maybe larger. The intent
here is not to appear "hip", but to make the office environment more
interesting for visitors, such as potential donors. This creates
conversation pieces and memorable moments - which is important for
cultivating relationships.
Attempt to detect frenetic activity on article talk pages. Show
discussion and article.
Attempt to detect frenetic constructive (ie, not edit war) activity on
articles. Show article with changes highlighted? (maybe not so
easy...)
Display pages linked from [[wikipedia:did you know]].
Display some form of the wikicharts - what are people searching for?
Use some of those lists of topics we don't (yet) have, generate charts
- see progress marching along.
Draw boxes for the most basic categories of like "people", "places"
etc. Trawl recent changes and show bubbles falling into the boxes as
people either add categories or create new stubs.
Actually, a simple very active display showing the names of newly
created stubs in an attractive fashion would be cool. Or also capture
other basic actions like big expansions of articles (adding say 2000
bytes in a single edit), deleting an article, promoting an item to
FA/FP etc...
I like whiz bang heads up displays...:)
Steve