[Mediawiki-api] Partnerships FAQ: question about subscribing to content

[Platonides]

I don't think it can be done. The RSS of the wiki is for general changes 
only (Special:Recentchanges). You could query the category via the api, 
as in 
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=categorymembers&generator=categories&cmtitle=Category:Canada&format=xml 
but a) The output format is not the one of RSS and b) the sorting won't 
be the most appropiate.
However, i think it's a quite interesting option, so i'm CCing to the 
mediawiki-api list for input about that.

Another option is to create an account and use the rss of your 
watchlist. This gives you the maximum liberty about which articles to 
include/exclude.

Once you have one of such feeds, you can see them with your preferred 
news aggregator, include on a web using a custom system, a plugin... 
Specifically, mediawiki has several extensions able to include content 
from external RSS feeds: 
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:RSS_Extensions



Cary Bass wrote:
> Hey, can someone take this one on?  Thanks.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sue Gardner [mailto:sgardner at wikimedia.org] 
> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 5:14 PM
> To: Cary Bass
> Subject: Partnerships FAQ: question about subscribing to content
> 
> Is there a way for me to subscribe to particular kinds of content out of
> Wikipedia (e.g., articles about folk music, or articles about Canada), so
> that my encyclopedia benefits automatically from the ongoing contributions
> of Wikipedia contributors?
> 
> Cary, could you try to find someone to answer this question on the
> partnerships FAQ? (I am assuming the answer is no, but I'm not sure.) No
> rush, anytime :-)
> 
> Thanks,
> Sue