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).