Wikipedia talk:Syndication/Archive 1

WP:DYK and Picture of the Day
A feed for Did you know and Picture of the day would be cool, but I don't have a clue how to "scrape" them. the wub  "?/!"  15:10, 15 August 2005 (UTC)


 * I will give the Picture of the Day one a go (give me 2-3 days), since it seems to be very similar to the Featured Article RSS feed that I'm already doing. Not sure how the DYK one would work since it seems to get updated frequently but irregularly and people probably wouldn't want the same item appearing twice. I suppose I could store all of the items locally and do a quick comparison and only add new items. Any thoughts on this? Dze27 00:13, August 16, 2005 (UTC)


 * For anyone interested in these RSS feeds, take a look at User:Dze27, and talk about it on User_talk:Dze27. --dionyziz 09:44, 17 August 2005 (UTC)


 * OK I have started a Picture of the Day feed. Let me know if you have any problems or suggestions for it. I'll think a bit about the DYK one, no promises right now though. Dze27 04:01, August 18, 2005 (UTC)

The Picture of the Day RSS feed is borked. RSS readers just show a page of HTML.

Watchlist viewer
A watchlist rss/atom feed doesn't seem to be possible at the moment, so I hacked up a small program with similar functionality. On request, I'll polish the code up a bit and put it on my user page. Shinobu 06:41, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Positioned on left screen edge.
 * Requests only changes made after the newest change the last time the program was run. I don't know if this reduces server load, but it sure makes the list display quicker.
 * Single click on article name to open diff in new window.
 * Only the watchlist of the logged-in user can be checked.

Atomic Reference Desk
Check out the new RSS feeds of the Reference Desk. Thanks to User:Talrias for helping me a LOT on this: These will be updated hourly starting eventually this week, but right now they're just one-time snapshots. &mdash; Il&gamma;&alpha;&eta;&epsilon;&rho;   (T&alpha;l&kappa;)  00:31, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Reference desk:Humanities, Science, Language , Miscellaneous (Updated hourly)


 * This domain (talrias.dyndns.org) doesn't currently exist, so I removed the links. tedder (talk) 04:55, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Added blinkbits
Added blinkbits.com/wikifeeds.php to hosted RSS feeds section. Not sure what the feed shows, but does appear to be rss feeds of wikipedia content. Disclaimer explains it will be likely a few days stale. example is blinkbits.com/wikifeeds/Tetris. Please help monitor and remove it if necessary. I just want to see feeds of watchlists, but this could come close if you can select multiple entries from the top 1million topics. Here 04:57, 14 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the link. I have added a link to blinkbits feed for the Business 7 Economics portal. The formatting leaves much to be desired, but its better than nothing for now. --Pamri &bull; Talk &bull; [ Reply] 07:23, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Working toward RSS feeds for watchlists (and everything else)
Is it possible to create RSS feeds for users' watchlists? --80.145.37.109 22:28, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Attempting to gather conversation and support for implementation at Syndication_feeds. Please, go there and add a note in favor and what you'd like in the feed. Here 22:54, 14 October 2005 (UTC) (revised Here 22:28, 16 October 2005 (UTC))

Wikipedia:Signpost RSS is down
And has been down for close to a month. Can anybody copy it to a more stable server or fix it one way or another?--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 05:07, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

XML Export
Just out of curiosity, what would one do with an xml export of a page? Or mabye I sould ask, why one would want an XML export of a page.

--angrykeyboarder 08:31, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
 * It's for when you want to transfer data from one wiki to another in accordance with the GDFL (I think). To do it, you select Special:Export and get the page, then on the other page (Or wiki), you do a Special:Import if you are a sysop (It's Restricted to sysops though) and that transferrs thehistories and content.--User:Rock2e Talk - Contribs 12:24, 16 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Kind of the point of giving people access to your data through good protocols is that you let them think of better things to do with it than you ever could. One person can't have all the good ideas. --Skitch 01:04, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

What RSS link in a toolbox??
Changes to any Wikipedia article: go to the article's history page and use the toolbox link labeled "rss" to subscribe to this feed - I see no rss link in my toolbox... --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 15:57, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
 * What Browser are you using? It's there for me, it's in the middle of the toolbox when you press history, there's a link for RSS then one for ATOM.--User:Rock2e Talk - Contribs 12:27, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Watchlist aggregator script
I wrote a perl script to take my watchlist and turn it into a local rss feed. I posted it to my userpage. If anybody tries it out, let me know. I'll try to make it better in response to user feedback. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Adodge (talk • contribs) 00:37, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Didn't sign it... Boy, is my face red... Alex Dodge 02:50, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

My history feeds don't work in Google Reader
(previously posted at Village pump)

I have used the atom feeds for history pages for quite some time now to keep up with changes on pages I watch. Recently, the full set of changes is not showing up in Google Reader - just the edit summary. I have looked all over the net and in Wikipedia, but cannot find an answer. I would greatly appreciate anyone who might be able to help with this.

OS = WinXP; Browser = Firefox 2.0 / IE7

-- Bull  Wiki  Winkle  17:55, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

The feeds are not available
The feeds provided via BlinkBits were definitely the stuff to be appreciated and was really helpful to the developers and other users. With all the respect to the same I want to update the following...

The feeds which were available via BlinkBits are not available since last week of June. It is already posted here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Blinklmc with details in the first week of July; so if any reply for the same is found the feed users can have updated information available to them.

So if either the page is updated with the further information (or may be the feedlink examples for Blinkbits are removed till they are available again) it will be better. As the main aim of WikiPedia is also to provide up-to-date and correct information. I am definitely looking forward that the feeds will be available soon

Gujaratiauthor (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 14:01, 11 August 2008 (UTC)


 * No replies here or on the user talk page, so I removed it. tedder (talk) 04:53, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Help with watchlist RSS
Hi, So I tried adding my watchlist RSS feed onto my iGoogle page and I get the error "Error (wlnotloggedin)". Any ideas? Colombiano21 (talk) 19:54, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I get that too in Google Reader. I'm using FF3 and I'm logged into Wikipedia. Anyone have any suggestions?  ChimpanzeeUK  - User | Talk | Contribs 14:42, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Seems like you have to view the feed in a browser, in which you are looged in to Wikipedia at the moment. Google does not have your Wikipedia login to recognise you. I have no idea, whether there is some "workaround" for Google Reader (or iGoogle), but I am affraid nothing but Wikipedia RSS Google Gadget would help in this case.--Kozuch (talk) 22:25, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Same problem here. I have other feeds in Google Reader which I have to log in to read, what is the difference between these and Wikipedia feeds? Jaknudsen (talk) 07:44, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Twitter
I'm gatewaying skagedal's RSS feeds of the daily featured article and the picture o' the day to Twitter here. Eventually I'd like to add other featured content, like one selected anniversaries a day, maybe one "did you know". Dunno if this is worth mentioning in the RSS section—any thoughts? Thanks. —johndburger 14:34, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Article Feed
Question: How do I do the most basic thing of RSS one article? SunCreator (talk) 22:26, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Spoken Wikipedia RSS Feed
I use Google reader as an aggregator. When I try to add the RSS Manual Feed for Spoken Wikipedia (link exhibited on the WikiProject Syndication main page), I only get an option for Bookmarks and the dialogue-box does not provide for Google or any other common reader but instead opens a 'open file or program' box for my computer. How can this issue be resolved? —Preceding unsigned comment added by AshLin (talk • contribs) 12:14, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

RSS feed of Special:Recentchanges jumping back in time
I've had a few cases recently of the RSS feed of Special:Recentchanges going back a minute or two, so that the same hundred or so edits arrive twice. Is this a known problem? I have a screen capture, with timestamps, of the effect of one of these showing up in my anti-vandal tool, should any developer wish to see it. Philip Trueman (talk) 13:26, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

How do I turn off the watchlist token
If I load my preferences, there's a watchlist token pre-loaded. I blank it, log out, then come back in later and there's a watchlist token pre-loaded. How do I turn this off? I don't have this problem on other Wikimedia wikis. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail)  03:40, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't think you can. Just fill it in with a simpler value. It doesn't seem to get replaced. --Walter Görlitz (talk) 20:47, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Error (baduser_wlowner)
As you can see I have non-ASCII characters in my user name. Whether I try Walter Görlitz or Walter%20Gorlitz as my USERNAME I generate the Error (baduser_wlowner). Any suggestions? --Walter Görlitz (talk) 20:49, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Bug: Hyperlink for Watchlist RSS Feed goes to Main Article Page, Not Diff
If this is the appropriate venue for what I'm about to suggest/report as a bug, great -- if not, can someone advise me where to report it?

With regards to the technique "Watchlist feed with token" within the article, I find that following the link in my newsreader for my watchlist's RSS feed takes me simply to the article's main page.

This is really rather counter to the behavior I'd expect, which would be to take me to the diff for the edit which the link represents.

Not that I'm sneezing at an RSS feed -- it's quite useful -- but this is an inconvenient step that I could see growing more inconvenient as it's repeated first tens then hundreds of times. WCityMike (talk) 21:25, 9 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Seconding this. I like for my watchlist (and its RSS feed) to show all changes, not just the most recent. If one item in the feed is marked as read, many feed readers (such as Feed Sidebar, which I'm using at the moment) will mark future items with the same URL as read also. This defeats the purpose of using a feed reader to monitor the watchlist. -Jordon Kalilich (talk) 01:08, 26 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Thirded.--M4gnum0n (talk) 13:44, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Side-by-side edit comparisons in watchlist RSS feed
I would to display the edit in question (like with the Article history feeds), instead of just the edit summary. Is this possible? It's pretty annoying to have to click through every time (and the click through takes me to the current version of the article, so I need to then click "history", then compare revisions in order to see the edit..) --Padraic 13:43, 6 August 2010 (UTC)


 * I would like to see the diff displayed in the feed as well. It seems to be an active bug report: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10268 So you should go there and vote! --Gwern (contribs) 02:59 10 January 2011 (GMT)

No RSS link, again
I only see atom links, not RSS. I tried two different browsers (SeaMonkey and Chrome), different namespaces, as well as the old and new wikiskins. I can provide a screenshot if needed (in the Toolbox, I see only one orange icon and the Atom word). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 18:34, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Pure RSS is no longer supported. Even w3c advises people to use the atom extensions, and it simply works better. The pure RSS feed was removed from the pages for this reason, by the developers (if i remember correctly). —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 20:29, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

RSS feed for "Did you know"
I'd like to let you know that an RSS feed for Template:Did you know is now available at. I've also made a twitter account named EnWpDYK which automatically posts every item on DYK when it's updated. Have fun, and let me hear what you think!

Note: a known problem is that the feed occasionally becomes empty (probably because something is wrong between Yahoo! Pipes and Wikipedia). If it bothers you, you could use the twitter account's feed. The twitter's feed is more stable, although there may be some missed items, still. --Whooym (talk) 10:37, 9 December 2010 (UTC)