If you never intended to use, or if you do not use the RSS extension ... ...then you can stop reading here.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID

When debugging E:RSS, I found some inconsistencies how two templates are used for rendering RSS feeds on mediawiki pages, and fixed this and other issues in a new version (not yet in svn).

I would be interested in your _quick_ _feedback_ about the changes (intended to be published today) which are listed in the

!!preview of RELEASE-NOTES!! === Version 1.90 2011-08-15 === * removed parsing of each single channel subelement (item) * only the finally constructed feed is sent to the recursive parser: in pre-1.9 versions, each channel subelement (item) was sent to the parser * [[MediaWiki:Rss-item]] default has channel subelement <description> added This was never present in previous versions * Rss template default name has been changed:

until 1.8: [[Template:RSSPost]] 1.9: [[MediaWiki:Rss-feed]], an existing [[Template:RSSPost]] takes precedence to be compatible with pre-1.9 versions * introduced [[MediaWiki:Rss-feed]] with a meaningful default as part of the release. The channel subelements which make the feed are rendered in this standard layout:

* <title> : <description> : <author> <date>

* There are several ways to customize the final layout of feed items:

1. Admins can change the [[MediaWiki:Rss-feed]] default page 2. Users can use the optional template= parameter to tell the extension to render the feed with a different layout <rss template=Pagename>...</rss> use layout as in [[Template:Pagename]] 3. <rss template=Namespace:Pagename>...</rss> use [[Namespace:Pagename]]

Tom