This would be a good project for a joomla first-timer, mostly because it is basically a few minor modifications to existing freely available software.
I would like to create a plugin for Joomla 1.5+ that ads a button to each article so that an editor can quickly verify that a page is original content.
The button would link to:
[login to view URL]://[login to view URL]
You would need to add "&tmpl=component" to the URL to strip away everything except the article.
There is plenty of free source code for joomla plugins that create a button next to an article. For instance, here are a couple:
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/communities-&-groupware/social-bookmarking/4099/details
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/communities-&-groupware/social-bookmarking/5030/details
Start with one of the plugins above (or something similar), because I also want to be able to give this away freely to others, including the install XML file. Here is some documentation on the XML install package for a plugin (although I doubt you will need to change it much): [login to view URL]
The only feature I don't see in the button plugs above is access control. However, I want the button ONLY to appear if the user is an AUTHOR or above.
Here is documentation on Joomla Access control:
[login to view URL]
And here is a free plugin with source code that controls users access to joomla content:
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/access-&-security/content-restriction/6004/details
If you need me to setup a joomla environment where you can test this, I can do that. Also, I will give the author complete credit and make you part of the joomla dev community that creates this.
This is a product that I will need for personal use as a writer to verify that my content is 100% unique, but I am also going to give it away free to the community for download. I could probably create this myself, but I want to outsource more of this kind of stuff.