Hi Virgil,
I think a modified atlas that has a better top relay list and plays with various (non-financial) gamification concepts is long due. When you look at BOINC/SETI, it can work well. I agree that by simply interfacing with onionoo (plus probably some aggregation of data), you can generate a nice set of views that "give back warm and fuzzy feelings" and "encourage competition". Diversity should be factored in, something that we already do partly for the Torservers reimbursements.
I guess $someone should just go ahead and implement something. Hosting it on some third party domain doesn't hurt, and if it is great, we can still discuss moving it to something.tpo.org.