On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/11/2 Magnus Manske <magnusman...@googlemail.com>: >> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Ray Saintonge <sainto...@telus.net> wrote: >>> Olli wrote: >>>> Date: 2009/10/31 >>>> Subject: Wikipedia christmas calendar? >>>> >>>> What about a wikipedia christmas calendar? It can maybe preview some >>>> articles or something similar. Then it can be multilingual. >>>> >>>> >>> Not necessarily just Christmas, but a published calendar for the whole >>> year. Wikipedia's date articles are already full of weitd and wonderful >>> things that happened on this day in history. >> >> Or, have a new calender generated automatically on each page reload: >> >> http://toolserver.org/~magnus/wikilendar.php?month=11&year=2009 >> >> (takes a few seconds to parse all these pages and check for suitable images) > > 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. > 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. Cheers, Magnus _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
