Chennai Hackathon March 2012/Ideas

Idea for hacks during the Chennai Hackathon

Content creation tools

 * 1) App to help people record and add prononciations for words in their local language wiktionary from their mobile
 * 2) App to help people upload to commons from their smartphone
 * 3) An email based service where people with *any* phone can email a photo to an email address and it will end up in commons

Content assessment tools

 * 1) Gamify making assessments about article quality and importance for WikiProjects

Content discovery tools

 * 1) Browser extensions that show you articles you are reading in other wiki languages
 * 2) Interest based DYK collections, later fed into txtweb / twitter feed / other browsing tools. ( Clones of DYKIndia for Cricket, History, Science,  etc)
 * 3) Jigsaw puzzle based on Featured Images on Commons(or any wiki). Person who completes the puzzle gets links to pages where the images used to read about it.
 * 4) Slideshow of Featured pictures
 * 5) Wordpress, Drupal,  widget for  Featured feeds to show content from Mediawiki (Wikipedia) sites on blogs / websites.
 * 6) A simple text editor that supports input methods and web fonts. The output should correctly indicate the meta data of the language and possibly script. The MediaWiki Narayam and WebFonts extensions can be a point of reference.

Visualizations and Mashups

 * 1) Involving the Realtime Edit summaries feeds from http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Channels#Recent_changes
 * 2) Graph of total bytes of an article over period of time.
 * 3) Show protection logs of a page and duration of protection in a timeline
 * 4) A TxtWeb app for Wiktionary
 * 5) A TxtWeb app / plugin with Mahatma Gandhi's Quotes / 

Other random ideas

 * 1) Gadget to count the number of internal links on wiki page.