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
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