On 8 September 2013 13:16, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Because turning MediaWiki from a terrible blogging platform into a good one (comment management and blog-style RSS at absolute minimum) would be more work than even maintaining our own WordPress installation.
Chatting with Rupert about this just now, he pointed out that Wikinews does RSS just fine:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GoogleNewsSitemap
The URL is ugly (but that's why mod_rewrite exists):
https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NewsFeed&feed=atom&...
So that's that problem actually solved (and I thought that'd be the hard one).
Comments remain a problem: LiquidThreads is unloved and largely unmaintained, and Flow is barely started.
- d.