@JMinor mentioned that some of the features the iOS team is building could also make for fun features for bots.
I've been looking at the documentation for creating a [[ https://api.slack.com/slack-apps | Slack app ]] and also reading a lot about other Slack apps that exist ([[ https://hbr.org/hbr-bot-for-slack | HBR ]], [[ http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/02/the-new-york-times-launches-a-slack-2016-election-bot-that-accepts-questions-from-readers/ | NYTimes ]]) and would like to propose that we experiment creating a bot for the 6.8 million daily Slack users who would like to enlighten their colleagues or friends throughout the workday. Some ideas for features:
/wikipedia trending hour/day/month could return results from https://trending.wmflabs.org/
/wikipedia random could return something from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions
/wikipedia today could return a fact from Today in History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/November
/wikipedia edit could return a random article that needs edit improvements (I've seen a bot for this on Twitter)
/wikipedia commons could return a random public domain image
/wikipedia code could return a project where a new developer could get involved
The documentation for Slack apps is good, and I think this could pave the way for us to think about apps for chat programs like WhatsApp and WeChat and LINE and other platforms people are using globally. This would help our social media scale, and could bring more people into the movement.
Tagging @Jdlrobson and @mpopov and @srishakatux and @Quiddity who might be interested in this.