Evan Prodromou wrote:
I'm wondering how unreasonable it would be to syndicate watchlists.
Might be an interesting idea, but may raise privacy concerns. These RSS feeds must therefore be deactivatable.
I think we'd have to have some kind of authentication, and I don't know how well that fits in with the RSS framework.
It is not possible in general to authenticate an RSS feed. Of course Wikipedia could require a cookie or a HTTP Auth before it will show you the RSS feed, but that makes it pretty much useless because most RSS readers don't support this. In particular, a lot of RSS readers -- such as LiveJournal -- handle RSS feeds as a fundamentally public resource and cannot allow any authentication to be sent with it.
Timwi