On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
2009/11/2 Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com:
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Olli wrote:
Date: 2009/10/31 Subject: Wikipedia christmas calendar?
What about a wikipedia christmas calendar? It can maybe preview some articles or something similar. Then it can be multilingual.
Not necessarily just Christmas, but a published calendar for the whole year. Wikipedia's date articles are already full of weitd and wonderful things that happened on this day in history.
Or, have a new calender generated automatically on each page reload:
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/wikilendar.php?month=11&year=2009
(takes a few seconds to parse all these pages and check for suitable images)
I think a human selected calendar would be better for actually publishing, but that's certainly a fun script. Can you add an option to choose a category so we can have a calendar of Britons, or French, or mathematicians, or military people, etc.?
I could limit the articles used to a ceratin category, but IMHO that would restrict the search too much, that is, either no or a few possible candidates per day.
One bug: I got a graph of Imran Khan's bowling statistics rather than his portrait...
And if you give me code to identify a person's image, I'll be happy to implement it, as would the NSA. As it stands, I chose a random article from e.g. [[November 2]], then chose a random picture from that.
Cheers, Magnus