It seems that no one actually announced the creation of the
"newprojects" mailing list yet!
The mailing list[1] is an announcement-only list for new Wikimedia
wikis[2]. The way it works is that the addwiki.php[3] script that
sysadmins use to create the wikis automatically sends a mail to the
list, so (provided there are no bugs with the script) subscribers will
get an e-mail when every Wikimedia wiki is created.
This list should be especially useful for people who need to know when
new wikis are created so that they can update their tools or scripts.
Of course, people who are just interested in knowing about new wikis
are welcomed to subscribe too. :-)
[1]https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/newprojects
[2]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix
[3]http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Add_a_wiki
--
Casey Brown
Cbrown1023
Hi all! For a long time I wanted a decent push interface for RC-Events. Parsing
messages on IRC is unreliable, and polling the API sucks (and is also
unreliable, see Bug 24782).
So, I have written XMLRC <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:XMLRC> and set
up a prototype on the Toolserver - have a look at
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Recentchanges_via_XMPP> for details. Basically,
you point any Jabber client to the chat room
<enwiki(a)conference.jabber.toolserver.org> to see the change events, like on IRC.
However, if you use a client aware of the extra data attached to the messages,
like <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:XMLRC/rcclient.py>, you will get
all the information you can get from the API (in fact, you can get the exact
same XML tag).
Try it out and let me know what you think!
-- daniel