Rob Church wrote:
This would require them to start ignoring meta tags containing instructions to robots, since recent changes (and other special pages) have "noindex,nofollow" set.
Don't we provide feeds via OAI.PMH to interested third parties?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Archives_Initiative_Protocol_for_Metadata_...
The "obvious-el-cheapo" way to get real-time update information would be to go to #en.wikipedia on irc.wikimedia.org.