On 2/15/08, Erik Moeller erik@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