[Wikimediaindia-l] Did you know?

[Arjuna Rao Chavala]

Just tried it. Worked beautifully.
Congrats!
Look forward to the blogpost

Cheers
ARJUNA
On Nov 21, 2011 9:08 PM, "Srikanth Lakshmanan" <srik.lak at gmail.com> wrote:

> * Did you know a lot of useful things were done at the Mediawiki India
> Hackathon see notes[1] . Thanks to all who made it happen and successful.
>
> I am writing about one of the tiniest piece(literally some 10 lines of
> code) of work done on Day 1 of the hackathon. After the initial interest on
> @DYKIndia[2], Arunmozhi[3] and myself started working on the DYKAPI[4]
> sometime back with the aim of creating a "perfect" API so that app
> developers can consume it. We are still far away from that perfect state,
> but as of now it gives a very random fact from 40k + facts stored. So I
> thought I would do a txtweb plugin to the current API, so that one could
> use it as a "stumble upon" on SMS to get random facts and browse to beat
> boredom.
>
>  So please try out the didyouknow txtweb app by sending "@didyouknow" as
> an SMS to 09243342000 and check it out.
>
> There is lot more that can be done and much more scope for more such tools
> with Wikipedia Zero etc,So if you are interested and have some time, do
> ping me, I will keep you engaged with work!. I would also write a detailed
> blogpost on wikimedia.in soon which Arjuna has been requesting me for a
> while.
>
> [1]
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/India_Hackathon_2011/Schedule_notes#Notes
> [2] http://twitter.com/DYKIndia
> [3] http://www.arunmozhi.in/
> [4] http://github.com/tecoholic/dykapi
>
> --
> Regards
> Srikanth.L
>
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