[Toolserver-l] Demo of RC-Events over XMPP

Hi all! For a long time I wanted a decent push interface for RC-Events. Parsing messages on IRC is unreliable, and polling the API sucks (and is also unreliable, see Bug 24782). So, I have written XMLRC <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:XMLRC> and set up a prototype on the Toolserver - have a look at <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Recentchanges_via_XMPP> for details. Basically, you point any Jabber client to the chat room &lt;enwiki(a)conference.jabber.toolserver.org&gt; to see the change events, like on IRC. However, if you use a client aware of the extra data attached to the messages, like <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:XMLRC/rcclient.py>, you will get all the information you can get from the API (in fact, you can get the exact same XML tag). Try it out and let me know what you think! -- daniel