[Wikimediaindia-l] Indian DYK (trivia) from Wikipedia on twitter.

[Srikanth Lakshmanan]

Hi all,

I am planning to start a twitter account posting one DYK fact related to
India everyday and a link to the article using a script.There are currently
1200+ DYK articles related to India and i have wrote a script to parse the
talk pages and got around 800+ DYK hooks (my script's regex can be improved
and am working on that to get all 1200+ hooks). I need your help to further
format the hooks to 120 chars, so that it fits into twitter limit and
maintain the tweet queue(just like DYK queue), so that my script can post on
twitter without manual intervention.

I think this could give a boost to visibility and page views of DYK articles
having good content which otherwise recieve fairly low page views which
happens only through search since quite a few of them are poorly linked.If
this is successfull we could probably even use it over free sms service.(now
that GPRS is getting cheap and penetration is increasing) People following
get to know trivia and also might give some sort of satisfaction to the DYK
creators.

If you could spare some time in helping with maintaining the tweet queue,
please mail me offlist, we could work on that.

Thoughts / Suggestions on the idea is welcome. Suggestions for the twitter
account name is also welcome. :)

Regards,
Srikanth L
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