I rather like the idea of this extension... The Wikinews RSS feed is nice,
now, but having the article text as the description would be *great*.
Incidentally, Iaroslav is not a member of this list, but the address has
been whitelisted for any future posts he may send. You may wish to copy the
original sender on any replies relevant to him.
-C.
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 8:32 PM, Iaroslav Vassiliev <codedriller(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi,
I recently developed a MediaWiki extension, that allows to export news in
RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 format in easy manner. The extension is called "News
Channel" and is now available at
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:News_Channel. Basically, when user
or aggregation program requests a feed, the extension gets specified number
of latest articles from some specified category (e.g.
[[Category:Published]]), exports it to RSS/Atom feed format and sends to
user. Articles's title will be the headline and article's text will be the
description of news item. Feed is automatically linked from every page of
the wiki, like recent changes feed is linked. First I developed it for my
own site, but I thought it could be useful for other projects, especially
for Wikinews. Customization is possible.
What do you think?
Best regards,
Iaroslav Vassiliev
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