[Wikinews-l] RSS feed in Ta Wikinews

[bawolff]

CSpurrier's tool needs to be modified. Link should not be broken
though, it just goes to the feed itself, which is not where it should
go. (It should go to the main page of project in question, or be
configurable)
 (Theres the potential a broken feed reader may not recognize entity
references in url, but url itself is fine).

You are aware that the feed is using english category names, with an
english description, and ordering by last edit?
(Specificly you are using a feed with the following parameters: Get 20
articles from tamil language wikinews in category Published and not in
Category:Disputed Category:No_publish or Category:Brief, ordered by
last touch (aka last edit, or last time cache was flushed, etc) sorted
by oldest edit first, with the title of the feed set to "Latest in
Tamil Wikinews", and the description of the feed set to "Wikinews, the
free news source you can write. For more information, or to see all
stories, visit http://ta.wikinews.org" )

(Normally you'd want to order by the date the article was "published"
(aka the date the article was added to the tamil equivalent to
category:Published), not the last edit date. Otherwise if someone
edits the article a year after it was written, the edit date (last
touched date actually, things other then edits [like ?action=purge]
can reset this) would reset the date. This is probably not what you
want. Also, considering this is a feed for the tamil language, one
would think that you would want to use the translation of the word
publish for the category, not the english word. Similiarly you would
not want to exclude categories which probably do not exist on tamil
wikinews. Last of all, you definitly would not want to order them
ascending (oldest articles first). Normally feeds show latest news,
not oldest news.


Also If you plan to directly use the toolserver feed, it might be best
to link to the toolserver instead of feedburner.
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On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 3:53 AM, Sri Sritharan <kstharan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have another question on feed.
>
> In our Tamil wikinews feed, the link at the left hand top corner points to a
> broken link (points to tools.wikimedia.org, which does not exist).
>
> How can I change it to point to ta.wikinews.org?
>
> http://feeds.feedburner.com/LatestTamilWikinews
>
> Thanks
> Sritharan (Kanags)
>
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Jon Davis <wiki at konsoletek.com> wrote:
>>
>> We really should lift that from Craig and get it on the toolserver... or a
>> server.
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 19:11, bawolff <bawolff+wn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi. Currently the english wikinews feed uses a somewhat complicated
>>> process. There's a bot that pulls articles from
>>> http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/T:LN into
>>> http://thenewswiki.com/wn/wnfeed.xml which is then fed into the
>>> feedburner feed. (From their the feedburner feed is syndicated into
>>> twitter facebook and identica).
>>>
>>> Craig Spurrier is the one who maintains the bot, so he would be the one
>>> to ask.
>>>
>>> cheers
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>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Sri Sritharan <kstharan at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hello
>>> >
>>> > I'm Kanags, sysop in Tamil Wikinews. I need some help in RSS feeds.
>>> >
>>> > How can we include a short description of each news item (like in
>>> > English
>>> > wikinews) in the feed?
>>> >
>>> > http://feeds.feedburner.com/LatestTamilWikinews
>>> >
>>> > We would like to have one such feature in our Tamil Wikinews.
>>> >
>>> > Any suggestion is much appreciated.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks
>>> > Sri Sritharan (Kanags)
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