On 16/09/05, John Anthony Hartman john@websage.org wrote:
I am trying to solve a problem and hope that someone might have already considered or actually done this already. I was wondering if any one had created any code that would collect My Watchlist data and published it as an RSS feed. If no one has can someone please point me in the right direction in the code to accomplish this myself?
This is an oft-discussed but not-yet-implemented feature: see http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471
The basic problem is that people see the watchlist as private information - watching someone else's could facilitate anti-social users "stalking" those pages, etc. RSS feeds, on the other hand, tend to be public resources - there's not really a standard way of making them secure. See previous discussions (e.g. the one linked from that bug report) for details.