This mail refers to E:RSS version 2.01 as in r112315 . Improved https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RSS
- begin of Namespace handling and ATOM feed handling - E:RSS is compatible with E:WikiArticleFeeds RSS, ATOM feeds - handles basic HTML layout tags in feed items
If you think you are an XML expert, please feel free to improve the parser https://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/RSS/RSSData.php?...
with the goal to betterparse ATOM feeds, rdf: ...
A non-representative list of RSS and ATOM feeds for testing is https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Subfader/RSS ;
When _viewing_ this page please take into account that that page is currently rendered by an outdated version of E:RSS on MediaWiki.
When making your own tests then set
$wgRSSCacheCompare=1; // to avoid caching effects and $wgRSSFetchTimeout=15; // to bear with slow RSS sources
and always action=purge your wiki test page/s when experimenting.