2009/11/2 Magnus Manske <[email protected]>: > On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Ray Saintonge <[email protected]> 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.? One bug: I got a graph of Imran Khan's bowling statistics rather than his portrait... _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
