Something for people looking for a fun project to hack on:
IMDB (the movie database) has a submission interface for signed in users
which can be used to submit "External reviews" to IMDB. I was advised by
the IMDB staff that, in order to work towards a more comprehensive content
partnership with them, we should first submit links to the relevant
movies, so that they can gauge user interest.
So we need a bot that auto-submits all Wikipedia articles about movies to
IMDB's "external reviews" sections about these movies.
There is a [[List of movies]]. An index could be generated from the linked
pages. The script should remember which movies it has already submitted,
so that we can easily add new articles to the index.
IMDB takes some time to process submissions, so you can only test if the
script is working correctly by looking at the HTML sent from their server.
You will probably want to use some throwaway email address for the account
as IMDB sends a confirmation for each submission.
For implementing this I would use libwww-perl, an excellent web scripting
library for Perl, but I'm sure there are equivalents for all other major
scripting languages.
So, does anyone want to take this project?
Regards,
Erik