Wikirandom - Random articles from Wikipedia

I humbly submit to your critic eyes a site I’ve built: Wikirandom - The Random Encyclopedia, that you can find at www.wikirandom.org.

The site uses some of the new functionalities of Drupal 6:

• Multilingual support
  Which is great, but is also somewhat incomplete. It seems that without the i18n module a truly multilingual site is not feasible.
• AHAH Forms
  I had great fun with these, even if the documentation is still incomplete. For example, it was difficult to disable the default progress throbber. I had to read the code in ahah.js to see that the #ahah['progress']['type'] could be set to anything else than 'throbber' or 'bar', and it would do nothing. So I set it to 'none', and wrote my own code (by the way, do you like the spinning roulette?)
• drupal_json function
  Simple and effective. I could write a simple API for Wikirandom in only a few hours starting from this.
• jQuery 1.2.3 support
  Simply wonderful.

Main customizations:

• Floating Blocks
  I wanted some of my navigational elements in the primary links ('Embed' and 'Share') to display the nodes not as full pages but as floating boxes under the links. So I created two blocks which load the nodes, inserted them in an absolutely positioned page region named 'Floating', and wrote some javascript to handle the display and positioning of the blocks. It's harder to explain than to see, but the result is that I can put any node in a block and make it appear when the menu item that links to it is clicked.
  Do you think that a module could come out of this?
• Monobook Theme
  The theme of my site is obviously a copy of the Monobook skin, which is Wikipedia's default appearance. Is anyone interested in a port to a full Drupal theme?

Installed modules:

• google_analytics
• i18n
• pathauto
• poormanscron
• service_links
• token
• mediawiki (only the parsing functions)
• wikirandom (my custom stuff)

Modules used in development:

• devel
• google_analytics
• l10n_client
• potx

Overall, I found that Drupal 6 is an enormous improvement over D5, not only for the new features, but also for the myriad of small improvements that really sum up to a much cleaner and efficient site building. When Views, CCK, Panels and Organic Groups will be upgraded to D6, we will see wonderful things!