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.

Other random ideas

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