On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/11/2 Magnus Manske <[email protected]>: >>> 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. > > For large categories, like nationalities, it would probably work. For > smaller categories you would need to decide what to do with gaps. > >>> 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. > > Try the image in the infobox if there is one.
So, either a HTML parser or a new MediaWiki parser to get at the <img>/variable. Tough choice there :-) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
