One risk of a live feed of this is that a few jackasses may think it's a good idea to hammer the server every 5 seconds so as not to miss anything. But that's something we can just look out for.
Brion Vibber wrote:
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 03:19, Lars Aronsson wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
An RDF feed listing the last 10 non-minor updates to Wikipedia is available at http://www.wikipedia.org/tools/feed-en.rdf (replace 'en' as desired to get a feed for the other languages). Updated every half hour, so it may miss things at busier times. ;)
Great! I'm using this in my RSS import to http://susning.nu/Wikipedia
Why isn't it generated on the fly, just like the Recent Changes page?
Originally there was some weirdness with the APC cache, plus I was concerned that ''another'' million things knocking over the server for updates might worry it, but it seems smooth enough now so there's probably no good reason except that the static copy gets served a little faster.
If you want a live live feed, you can go to the script directly: http://www.wikipedia.org/w/FeedRDF.php etc
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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