[Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia christmas calendar?

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/11/2 Magnus Manske <magnusmanske at googlemail.com>:
>> 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.

For large categories, like nationalities, it would probably work. For
smaller categories you would need to decide what to do with gaps.

>> 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.

Try the image in the infobox if there is one.