[Mediawiki-l] Automatically watching all new pages

[Rob Church]

On 20/06/07, Hiram Clawson <hiram at soe.ucsc.edu> wrote:
> How does one read an RSS feed ?  Does an email client take
> care of that business, a WEB browser, or a special client ?

All three, depending upon the software.

RSS is just a simple, machine-readable format based more or less on
XML, and there are a variety of clients which can convert this
information into a more human-readable form.

For example, Mozilla Thunderbird, and a number of email clients, can
subscribe to RSS feeds. A large number of browsers, including things
like Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox can handle RSS feeds -
Firefox refers to these as "live bookmarks". And there are dedicated
RSS clients.

Of course, RSS feeds can be read back into web applications and used
server-side, and there are RSS aggregation extensions for MediaWiki.


Rob Church