On 4/20/05, Alexandre Van de Sande alexandrevandesande@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a way to get a rss for a special part of the site, like for Template:In_the_news, for example. It's because this could actually be a useful rss news feed. I guess not, because it would require a little hacking to make that page computer readable...
Quite so. Somebody would have to write a script to parse either the wikitext or the HTML and extract the "items" in a meaningful way. People have done this with a few pages, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Syndication, but no feed for that one is listed there.
There have also been various feature requests for creating a feed from the history of a page, the activity in a category, and for user watchlists (the last being particularly difficult because people like their watchlists to stay private). See http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=471,472,943
Creating a "standard" (i.e. official part of the software) feed from actual items within a page is a little more complex, and it's hard to see how to do it in a "standard" way.