[Wikipedia-l] RDF feed of Wikipedia updates

[Jimmy Wales]

One risk of a live feed of this is that a few jackasses may think it's
a good idea to hammer the server every 5 seconds so as not to miss
anything.  But that's something we can just look out for.

Brion Vibber wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 03:19, Lars Aronsson wrote:
> > Brion Vibber wrote:
> > > An RDF feed listing the last 10 non-minor updates to Wikipedia is
> > > available at http://www.wikipedia.org/tools/feed-en.rdf (replace 'en' as
> > > desired to get a feed for the other languages). Updated every half hour,
> > > so it may miss things at busier times. ;)
> > 
> > Great!  I'm using this in my RSS import to http://susning.nu/Wikipedia
> > 
> > Why isn't it generated on the fly, just like the Recent Changes page?
> 
> Originally there was some weirdness with the APC cache, plus I was
> concerned that ''another'' million things knocking over the server for
> updates might worry it, but it seems smooth enough now so there's
> probably no good reason except that the static copy gets served a little
> faster.
> 
> If you want a live live feed, you can go to the script directly:
> http://www.wikipedia.org/w/FeedRDF.php
> etc
> 
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
> 
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