Phil Boswell wrote:

[cross-posted to wikien-l and wikitech-l, adjust follow-ups as necessary]

[also cross-posted]

I just tried to add the RecentChanges RSS feed to my Google Personal page at http://www.google.com/ig and was met by a rude response.

I copied the link from [[Special:RecentChanges]] ( http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss ) and pasted it into the appropriate box.

The response was as follows: Your search http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss was blocked by that feed's robots.txt.

What's going on?

try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recentchanges?feed=rss