On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
- Show random articles. Not particularly creative, but should also be
fairly easy to do using some scripting. Would be nice to show stuff from projects beyond WP.
Interesting idea. Would be a little weird for places like WV, WS, and WB where any random "article" is probably a subpage in the middle of a book/course. Still, it would be a good way to showcase content from around the various projects.
- Show traffic data. What would be interesting displays here? Can we
show bandwidth usage in real-time?
I can't remember the name of the website (anybody have a link), but somebody used google maps to show where edits were being made from to en.wp. It was a cool display, and really gave you a good idea of who was editing wikipedia, where they were editing from, and what kinds of subjects got edited the most. I vote for this, if you can get it working reasonably well.
- Show images as they are being uploaded. Do we have anything like
that already? If not, how hard would it be to implement?
Every couple minutes, an image of hardcore pornography would flash on the screen, followed by a flurry of block/delete entries on the IRC monitor. Good for a light-hearted laugh, bad for business.
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