On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Tisza Gergő gtisza@gmail.com wrote:
is there a MediaWiki feature or external tool to get a live feed of Commons file uploads? (By live I mean something that can be used to show a realtime slideshow of new images. I vaguely remember someone saying that the WMF office has a screen with such a slideshow.)
If there is no such thing, what would be the best starting point to write one? #commons.wikimedia@irc.wikimedia.org?
Well, there's an IRC channel that has just the image uploads (freenode: #commons-image-uploads), and there's also the full IRC recent changes feed (irc.wikimedia: #commons.wikimedia).
As for the office screens, I've heard about regular RC visualizations and featured-picture slideshows, but I'm not sure about upload ones. It shouldn't be too hard to implement if they already have RC/featured-picture slideshows.