Re: [Wikitech-l] An RSS extension I'd like to see

I've written an extension that does something similar to what you're asking. It's called WikiArticleFeeds: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiArticleFeeds It's not exactly what you want - but the syntax is really easy (I'm combining an example with a description of what it does, hope it makes sense): ---------------------------------------------- Text in page before feed - ignored for RSS/Atom purporses. <startFeed /> Any text before the first Heading becomes the description of the feed (this text). == Item Two == Typically it's good practice to list feed items in reverse chronological order (newest on top). --[[User:Someuser|Someuser]] 08:52, 5 December 2006 (MST) == Item One == The extension picks out the "highest" level Heading as the Item level. === So this third-level heading === And this text both belong to Item One. --[[User:Someuser|Someuser]] 08:42, 4 December 2006 (MST) <endFeed /> Note that both startFeed and endFeed are self-closing tags with no internal text or arguments. This text (and the preceding note) are again ignored by the extension since they're not in the start/end blocks. <startFeed /> == Item Three == Since this page has two startFeed/endFeed pairs, the resulting RSS/Atom feeds will contain all items from both sections. This means that you could have a series of disperate feeds that you transclude together on one page for aggregation. --[[User:Someuser|Someuser]] 18:42, 6 December 2006 (MST) == Item Four == The publication dates and authors for feed items are taken from the first instance of ~~~~ in the item. Also, you may know that RSS/Atom feeds can have associated URLs. WikiArticleFeeds will look for the first link (internal or external, as long as it's not part of a ~~~~ segment) and use that URL as its own link. If your feed item has no links, it defaults to [[#ITEM TITLE]] which in this case would be "Item Four". --[[User:Someuser|Someuser]] 08:48, 7 December 2006 (MST) <endFeed /> ---------------------------------------------- Also, please note that the parsing for feed Items that WikiArticleFeeds does occurs AFTER mediawiki has converted the wikitext into HTML. This means that it (should be) totally agnostic towards templates and custom parser functions (though I haven't extensively tested this yet). If you decide to use it, I'd love to hear your feedback. Thanks! btw - if you want to see an example site, I'm currently using this to power my Blog: http://jimbojw.com/wiki/index.php?title=Blog -- Jim R. Wilson (jimbojw) On 2/17/07, Erik Moeller &lt;erik(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: