2009/5/6 Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk:
2009/5/6 Mark Nilrad marknilrad@yahoo.com:
Why is this needed when there are already RSS/Atom feeds for every article history? http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peloponnesian_War&feed=rss&... That's one, for example. Did they just happen to overlook that?
I suspect the people running the site are quite aware of and happy with that sort of thing, but are equally confident their target market won't be...
And then there's the function BUILT INTO MEDIAWIKI to email people on every page change, which just requires us turning it on ... though that'd probably be a server-melting exercise on en:wp for not much encyclopedic gain.
I'm thinking that someone should be going to every blogosphere/PR-press mention of WikiAlarm and pointing out in the comments that RSS is free.
- d.