Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Mirroring

How can we generate a good RSS feed for Signpost articles, and perhaps simultaneously create a better/alternative reading experience? This list compiled by Pete Forsyth (talk) in late December 2016, with substantial help from.

Potential problems to address:
 * 1) Get listed on Google News
 * 2) Better SEO performance (considerations might include "ref=canonical", URL naming, title tags in headers...)
 * 3) Human-readable version of Signpost without unnecessary Wikipedia menus and links (top and left)
 * 4) Create a version of the Signpost that's nice to read on mobile devices (mobile web, Wikipedia app, possibly even Signpost app...)
 * 5) Consideration: Grabbing the comments (transcluded from the talk page) is important. Updating frequently (if mirrored) to include recent comments.

Two possible kinds of solutions

 * 1) No mirroring, but RSS feed that links to existing content.
 * 2) Our own web site, mirroring content, with its own RSS

Technical approaches

 * 1) Special:export
 * 2) * Produces xml which needs to be rendered. Even templates are not rendered!
 * 3) ePub export
 * 4) * PediaPress not actively maintained
 * 5) * Currently, Wikipedia exports PDF but not ePub. (ePub is the one that would be useful.)
 * 6) * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EPubExport (ancient)
 * 7) * relevant discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Offline_Content_Generator
 * 8) mirroring -- using something like wget / httrack, and then tidying up with a script (ideally no human editing needed)
 * 9) * Not as perfect as it should be (image width, bullets on galleries...) Pulls across dependencies that may need tweaking. Links need to be updated to reflect signpost.wiki.
 * 10) FeaturedFeeds:
 * 11) * RSS to point to existing Wikipedia pages. Easy to set up (file a bug). Does not address any formatting issues. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FeaturedFeeds
 * 12) Integration with WordPress:
 * 13) * Plugins that will migrate / embed.
 * 14) * Some were commercial. None seemed suitable.
 * 15) * https://wordpress.org/plugins/rdp-wiki-embed/
 * 16) Printable:
 * 17) * External links become URLs
 * 18) * Otherwise, pretty good.
 * 19) * &printable=yes