I can code a bit, but I'm not a programmer by any means, and I kind of
need some help (ruby on rails is hard) or just answers to questions
about how to do stuff.
I posted a blog entry on why I think the filter would be so cool; I'll
copy it here:
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Here's why I think wikimouse would be incredibly cool:
1. There are more great, quirky, insightful wikipedia articles than
any individual could blog in a lifetime.
2. We won't need to worry at all about spam prevention,
self-promotion, etc., which cuts down the workload a lot -- if users
are only allowed to link to wikipedia, all that stuff is taken care of
already inside the wikipedia project. Basically, there's a floor on
how bad the user-submitted content can be, and no ceiling (or is that
the other way around?).
3. It could be an open-source, non-profit project on donated server
space, but if it's for-profit, it would be cool to programatically
generate merchandise based on the wikipedia article text (I've already
written a program that does this). That means we don't have to bog
down the site with banner and text ads (which wouldn't work too well
anyway, since the content is very diverse).