On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Sri Sritharan <
kstharan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Craig & Bawolff
>
> Thank you for your help in this matter. I've changed the (CSpurrier's) tool
> to (simple) default.
>
>
http://toolserver.org/~cspurrier/rss/rss.php?lang=ta&family=wikinews&categories=Published&limit=25&title=Latest+in+Tamil+Wikinews
> I'll wait till Craig fix his tool to point the link to the first page of the
>
ta.wikinews.org.
>
> Thanks for the help.
> Regards
> Sritharan (Kanags)
>
> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Craig Spurrier <
craig@craigweb.net> wrote:
>>
>> At the moment, the toolserver based RSS feed does not support category
>> names in other scripts. It should be able to handle other scripts for
>> the tile and description though. Getting this fixed is fairly high on my
>> priority list, so hopeful English categories will only be temporary.
>> -Craig
>>
>> bawolff wrote:
>> > CSpurrier's tool needs to be modified. Link should not be broken
>> > though, it just goes to the feed itself, which is not where it should
>> > go. (It should go to the main page of project in question, or be
>> > configurable)
>> > (Theres the potential a broken feed reader may not recognize entity
>> > references in url, but url itself is fine).
>> >
>> > You are aware that the feed is using english category names, with an
>> > english description, and ordering by last edit?
>> > (Specificly you are using a feed with the following parameters: Get 20
>> > articles from tamil language wikinews in category Published and not in
>> > Category:Disputed Category:No_publish or Category:Brief, ordered by
>> > last touch (aka last edit, or last time cache was flushed, etc) sorted
>> > by oldest edit first, with the title of the feed set to "Latest in
>> > Tamil Wikinews", and the description of the feed set to "Wikinews, the
>> > free news source you can write. For more information, or to see all
>> > stories, visit
http://ta.wikinews.org" )
>> >
>> > (Normally you'd want to order by the date the article was "published"
>> > (aka the date the article was added to the tamil equivalent to
>> > category:Published), not the last edit date. Otherwise if someone
>> > edits the article a year after it was written, the edit date (last
>> > touched date actually, things other then edits [like ?action=purge]
>> > can reset this) would reset the date. This is probably not what you
>> > want. Also, considering this is a feed for the tamil language, one
>> > would think that you would want to use the translation of the word
>> > publish for the category, not the english word. Similiarly you would
>> > not want to exclude categories which probably do not exist on tamil
>> > wikinews. Last of all, you definitly would not want to order them
>> > ascending (oldest articles first). Normally feeds show latest news,
>> > not oldest news.
>> >
>> >
>> > Also If you plan to directly use the toolserver feed, it might be best
>> > to link to the toolserver instead of feedburner.
>> > --
>> > - Bawolff
>> > Caution: The mass of this product contains the energy equivalent of 85
>> > million tons of TNT per net ounce of weight.
>> >
>> >
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