Hello,
It is a feature suggestion. I also submitted it through Mediazilla (#1265).
It would be useful for the wiki contributor to have a RSS feed, containing fresh information about articles from his/her watch list.
The relevant URL for this kind of feed should be composed of two parts:
(1) first part is user specific and may looks like this: http://XX.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:USERNAME
(2) second part is a randomly generated string and is here to protect user's privacy, which does not change (it can, however, be changed at the user's request).
Example:
http://XX.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:USERNAME?rss_id=febcbda8a5c3
The whole link to RSS feed will only be available to the user on the user's page _after_ authentication and may be placed under "Preferences" or inside "Navigation block" (latter is better, I think).
This way the user will receive fresh information about his/her watched articles through the RSS feed, while keeping his/her watch list private.
Best regards,
P.S. Please, CC me, I am not on the list (yet).
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 03:22:06 +0100, DIG dig.mediazilla@telkel.net wrote:
It would be useful for the wiki contributor to have a RSS feed, containing fresh information about articles from his/her watch list.
You are certainly not the first person to suggest this, although you are to be commended for spotting the requirements of the feature quicker than some. For one lot of earlier discussion, see http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2004-December/026558.html and its replies, but basically this is a feature waiting for someone to volunteer and actually code it - we have lots of those...
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:51:55PM +0000, Rowan Collins wrote:
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 03:22:06 +0100, DIG dig.mediazilla@telkel.net wrote:
It would be useful for the wiki contributor to have a RSS feed, containing fresh information about articles from his/her watch list.
You are certainly not the first person to suggest this, although you are to be commended for spotting the requirements of the feature quicker than some. For one lot of earlier discussion, see http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2004-December/026558.html and its replies, but basically this is a feature waiting for someone to volunteer and actually code it - we have lots of those...
Thanks for the pointer. I didn't expect that I would be the first to propose this feature -- it is too obvious, I just did not find it :-))
So, my suggestion to use pseudo random string (associated with the user's login name and kept in the user's table) in full RSS URL will resolve the privacy problem: the user does not have to be logged in to read the RSS, but she must be logged in to know her RSS link. And there is no need for public watchlist.
P.S. Sorry for this late answer -- I just found this unsent letter in my ``postponed'' box.
Best regards,
wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org