Wikipedia talk:Syndication

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[edit] WP:DYK and Wikipedia:Picture of the Day

A feed for Did you know and Picture of the day would be cool, but I don't have a clue how to "scrape" them. the wub "?/!" 15:10, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

I will give the Picture of the Day one a go (give me 2-3 days), since it seems to be very similar to the Featured Article RSS feed that I'm already doing. Not sure how the DYK one would work since it seems to get updated frequently but irregularly and people probably wouldn't want the same item appearing twice. I suppose I could store all of the items locally and do a quick comparison and only add new items. Any thoughts on this? Dze27 00:13, August 16, 2005 (UTC)
For anyone interested in these RSS feeds, take a look at User:Dze27, and talk about it on User_talk:Dze27. --dionyziz 09:44, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
OK I have started a Picture of the Day feed. Let me know if you have any problems or suggestions for it. I'll think a bit about the DYK one, no promises right now though. Dze27 04:01, August 18, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Watchlist viewer

A watchlist rss/atom feed doesn't seem to be possible at the moment, so I hacked up a small program with similar functionality.

  • Positioned on left screen edge.
  • Requests only changes made after the newest change the last time the program was run. I don't know if this reduces server load, but it sure makes the list display quicker.
  • Single click on article name to open diff in new window.
  • Only the watchlist of the logged-in user can be checked.

On request, I'll polish the code up a bit and put it on my user page. Shinobu 06:41, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Atomic Reference Desk

Check out the new RSS feeds of the Reference Desk. Thanks to User:Talrias for helping me a LOT on this:

These will be updated hourly starting eventually this week, but right now they're just one-time snapshots. — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 00:31, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Added blinkbits

Added blinkbits.com/wikifeeds.php to hosted RSS feeds section. Not sure what the feed shows, but does appear to be rss feeds of wikipedia content. Disclaimer explains it will be likely a few days stale. example is blinkbits.com/wikifeeds/Tetris . Please help monitor and remove it if necessary. I just want to see feeds of watchlists, but this could come close if you can select multiple entries from the top 1million topics. Here 04:57, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the link. I have added a link to blinkbits feed for the Business 7 Economics portal. The formatting leaves much to be desired, but its better than nothing for now. --Pamri • Talk • Reply 07:23, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Working toward RSS feeds for watchlists (and everything else)

Is it possible to create RSS feeds for users' watchlists? --80.145.37.109 22:28, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Attempting to gather conversation and support for implementation at meta:Syndication_feeds. Please, go there and add a note in favor and what you'd like in the feed. Here 22:54, 14 October 2005 (UTC) (revised Here 22:28, 16 October 2005 (UTC))

[edit] Wikipedia:Signpost RSS is down

And has been down for close to a month. Can anybody copy it to a more stable server or fix it one way or another?--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 05:07, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] XML Export

Just out of curiosity, what would one do with an xml export of a page? Or mabye I sould ask, why one would want an XML export of a page.

--angrykeyboarder 08:31, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

It's for when you want to transfer data from one wiki to another in accordance with the GDFL (I think). To do it, you select Special:Export and get the page, then on the other page (Or wiki), you do a Special:Import if you are a sysop (It's Restricted to sysops though) and that transferrs thehistories and content.--User:Rock2e Talk - Contribs 12:24, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
Kind of the point of giving people access to your data through good protocols is that you let them think of better things to do with it than you ever could. One person can't have all the good ideas. --Skitch 01:04, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] What RSS link in a toolbox??

Changes to any Wikipedia article: go to the article's history page and use the toolbox link labeled "rss" to subscribe to this feed - I see no rss link in my toolbox... --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 15:57, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

What Browser are you using? It's there for me, it's in the middle of the toolbox when you press history, there's a link for RSS then one for ATOM.--User:Rock2e Talk - Contribs 12:27, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Watchlist aggregator script

I wrote a perl script to take my watchlist and turn it into a local rss feed. I posted it to my userpage. If anybody tries it out, let me know. I'll try to make it better in response to user feedback. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Adodge (talk • contribs) 00:37, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Didn't sign it... Boy, is my face red... Alex Dodge 02:50, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] My history feeds don't work in Google Reader

(previously posted at Village pump)

I have used the atom feeds for history pages for quite some time now to keep up with changes on pages I watch. Recently, the full set of changes is not showing up in Google Reader - just the edit summary. I have looked all over the net and in Wikipedia, but cannot find an answer. I would greatly appreciate anyone who might be able to help with this.

OS = WinXP; Browser = Firefox 2.0 / IE7

-- BullWikiWinkle 17:55, 3 March 2008 (UTC)