On Apr 4, 2005 9:34 PM, Minty mintywalker@gmail.com wrote:
What I would really like is to be able to "subscribe" to a specific Wikipedia article and be notified **in a manner of my choosing** when updates occur.
via Bloglines, another RSS/news reader
As for RSS (& Atom, etc), see lots of previous posts on these lists [this one & mediawiki-l]. Or rather, don't bother, because they can be summarised thus: * people like the idea of RSS-ised watchlists * people like watchlists to be private * an RSS feed for watchlists could be made pseudo-private by having a random token in its URL, and only activating it when the user first asked for it (and, presumably, giving them the option of re-randomising or disabling it) * feed aggregators don't, in general, support secure connections, but I think some do, so that's another option; not that MediaWiki can use that kind of login yet either, mind you
See also http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=471,472,943 - 472, for instance, discusses turning individual page histories into feeds, for a more fine-grained kind of "subscription" which wouldn't suffer the privacy problem.