Is it currently possible to limit the number of entries returned from a feed? I've been watching the Minnan newpages feed grow longer and longer with seemingly no end in sight. So I tried the English version and the server kept on loading until I felt I was abusing it so I stopped it. I don't know how popular Wikipedia feeds are, but surely a limit would help the servers.

My 2 cents.

Brion Vibber wrote:

Jakob wrote:

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[[meta:MediaWiki_roadmap]] states that RSS syndication is available for many special pages, such as Special:Newpages. Which special pages are you talking of?

Right now, Newpages and Recentchanges only.

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http://meta.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Categories

There is a Link in the Toolbox (rss/atom) but it does not work?

Odd. That shouldn't show.

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Brion Vibber wrote:

Henry H. Tan-Tenn wrote:

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Is it currently possible to limit the number of entries returned from a feed?

Same as everything else, &limit=X

I tried that before as an obvious parameter to use, but it didn't yield the expected result. For example, with the following test URL I got well over 10 items (cache cleared).

http://minnan.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Newpages&feed=ato...

Brion Vibber wrote:

Feed requests seems to be hardcoded to a limit of 50.

Hmm, weird (and I hope I'm not belaboring this) but the limit can be much greater than 50, at least with the installed version. Such that this dumps more than 100 items regardless:

http://minnan.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Newpages&limit=10...

DE returns a whooping 8 MB feed (nearly 3500 articles). I don't think anyone would be requesting this on frequent schedule (I hope not :) ):

http://de.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Spezial:Newpages&limit=250&am...