October 2011 Coding Challenge/Slideshow

Slideshow Challenge
How can we bring the millions of pictures in Wikipedia to our readers beyond the current low resolution thumbnails in articles? Find a way to invoke a beautiful, interactive HTML5 slideshow that works well on the desktop (extra points for tablet or mobile implementations), from any Wikipedia article.

User Scripts
All pages on MediaWiki sites include some built-in MediaWiki JavaScript code. Users can add their own code to this preload process by writing and uploading User Scripts, which are loaded whenever that logged-in user loads a page. Here's a brief guide explaining how those User Scripts work.

Sample Slideshow Code
Here's a great snippet of slideshow code to help get you started.