October 2011 Coding Challenge/Real-Time

Thousands of people edit Wikipedia every day. Wikipedia articles are constantly changing, with the most popular articles getting updated upwards of xx times a day. But there is very little on the article page that tells the reader that anything has changed. We would like to make the articles on Wikipedia appear more alive, so that our readers understand that knowledge is a dynamic, not static, thing.

Possible Project Ideas
Some examples of themes contestants might want to explore:


 * Recent changes stream
 * Article updated ping
 * Trending articles
 * Top editors today
 * Post to social media
 * A simple page view counter since a user's edit (for the editor as reader)

Manual: Developing extensions
MediaWiki functionality is added via Extensions. Be sure to read the extensive documentation about developing extensions for MediaWiki sites.

Manual: API
The MediaWiki API is extensive, and has exhaustive documentation.