Hi,
It is possible to subscribe to a RSS Feed Recent Changes and New Pages. Is there also a way to add RSS Feeds for Recent Changes and New Pages within a specific category?
Regards Peter Verhoeven
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2009/8/31 Verhoeven, Peter peter.verhoeven@oce.com:
Hi,
It is possible to subscribe to a RSS Feed Recent Changes and New Pages. Is there also a way to add RSS Feeds for Recent Changes and New Pages within a specific category?
Hi,
AFAIK there is no way to do either of these things with MediaWiki by itself. However, there is a toolserver tool that does something a bit similar.
"Catfood" by Magnus Manske http://toolserver.org/~magnus/catfood.php creates a feed for pages added to a category. Note this is a bit different to "new pages": the pages could have existed for a long time, but only recently be added to a category.
e.g. Feed of images added to the Featured Pictures category on Commons: http://toolserver.org/~magnus/catfood.php?category=Featured_pictures_on_Wiki...
Feed of articles added to the Linguistics category on simple.wikipedia: http://toolserver.org/~magnus/catfood.php?language=simple&project=wikipe... (it seemed to be choking a bit on en.wikipedia, but in theory that should also work)
Catfood is open source, and I think it wouldn't be difficult to adapt it for your wiki. You can then use JavaScript to insert an automatic link into the toolbox for category pages. (Like http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Screenshot_of_JavaScript_Catfood.png - follow the links from here)
Re recent changes to a category, from what I understand, this won't exist any time soon. A hacky solution might be: * create a page that contains a link to every page in a category * have a bot update the page every so often * Use the RelatedChanges feed for that page.
cheers Brianna
It is possible to subscribe to a RSS Feed Recent Changes and New Pages. Is there also a way to add RSS Feeds for Recent Changes and New Pages within a specific category?
I can think of a couple of ways you can do this for new pages. Both are a little overkill:
1. Use DynamicPageList[1], and wrap the output using WikiArticleFeeds[2] 2. Use Semantic Mediawiki[3], and query on modification date with an output format of rss
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList [2] http://jimbojw.com/wiki/index.php?title=WikiArticleFeeds [3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_MediaWiki
V/r,
Ryan Lane
If I understand you correctly this is what the News extension can do, though you have to provide the categories manually.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:News
Best, Matthias
Am Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:09:53 +0200 schrieb "Verhoeven, Peter" peter.verhoeven@oce.com:
Hi,
It is possible to subscribe to a RSS Feed Recent Changes and New Pages. Is there also a way to add RSS Feeds for Recent Changes and New Pages within a specific category?
Regards Peter Verhoeven
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