No objection from me, but: I want us to make sure that all the blog posts appearing are only Wikimedia-related. So I would insist that blogs either provide a Wikimedia-specific feed, or that we are able to filter them on our side by tag.
I often blog about extensions that I've written or ways to hack/bypass/modify/deal with MediaWiki. I'd be happy to make a separate feed just for these posts if it might result in my inclusion in the aggregate feed.
http://jimbojw.com/wiki/index.php?title=Blog
Also, you mention filtering the feed items by tag - do you mean the <category> tag in RSS (I believe this is "atom:category" in Atom)?
And it would be _very_ nice if we could make it scale beyond you or the dev team -- i.e., if some other volunteer could be in charge of approving and adding feeds.
I wouldn't mind serving in this facility - but I'm biased since I hope to have my own content included in the aggregate. Would the person in charge of approving/monitoring* feeds necessarily have to be an unbiased third-party?
* I say "monitoring" since it's possible that someone might create a feed which is initially MW/WM related, then after inclusion start spamming the list. Approval is just the first step - the person filling this role would need to be vigilant about spammers.
-- Jim R. Wilson (jimbojw)
On 3/5/07, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 3/5/07, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
I've fiddled a bit with Planet before; if there's no objection I'll set that up later today. If anyone wants in, let me know where to find your blog. :)
No objection from me, but: I want us to make sure that all the blog posts appearing are only Wikimedia-related. So I would insist that blogs either provide a Wikimedia-specific feed, or that we are able to filter them on our side by tag.
And it would be _very_ nice if we could make it scale beyond you or the dev team -- i.e., if some other volunteer could be in charge of approving and adding feeds. -- Peace & Love, Erik
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