[Mediawiki-l] RSS feeds problem

[Tim Landscheidt]

Anne Wilson <annew at kde.org> wrote:

> Our wiki uses Mediawiki 1.14, soon to be updated to 1.16.  From the day we
> updated to 1.14 the RSS feed has been problematic, often sending as many as 30
> entries for one new one, resulting in each entry being repeated many times.
> The number of false entries appears to be related to the number of changes
> that have been made in a period of time, probably 24 hours, which suggests to
> me that it's sending a cache or a queue that doesn't get cleared.

> I tried the Atom feed, and have had no problems with it whatsoever.  However,
> Atom feeds are not as well known as RSS ones, and that leaves us with a
> quandary.  Do we continue to offer a broken feed?  Sooner or later someone is
> going to ask us why it's not fixed, since we know it to be broken.  If we
> don't, users will ask us why we don't offer the best-known feed.

> How have others resolved the issue?

There was a missing guid element in RSS feeds (cf.
bug #7346) that got fixed in r61090. You might want to back-
port this patch to 1.14 for the time being to check if it
solves your issue.

Tim