Wikipedia:Syndication
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Various aspects of Wikipedia can be monitored with RSS or Atom feeds, to make it easier to keep track of changes.
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[edit] RSS feeds
- Changes to any Wikipedia article: go to the article's history page and use the toolbox link labeled "RSS" to subscribe to this feed
- Recent changes (alternatively: go to Special:RecentChanges and use the toolbox link labeled "RSS" to subscribe to this feed)
- New Pages (alternatively: go to Special:NewPages and use the toolbox link labeled "RSS" to subscribe to this feed)
- Spoken Wikipedia (manually updated)
- User watchlist feed; watchlist with all changes (not just the most recent)
- User Special:Contributions pages (in toolbox: RSS for a specific user)
[edit] Watchlist feed with token
You can set up an RSS feed of your watchlist that is accessible even when logged out:
- Go to Special:Preferences
- Click the "Watchlist" tab
- Copy and paste the "randomly-generated value" into the "Watchlist token" box
- Click "Save"
- Your watchlist RSS feed can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=feedwatchlist&wlowner=USERNAME&wltoken=TOKEN, where USERNAME is your username and TOKEN is the watchlist token you saved in your preferences
[edit] Atom (1.0) feeds
- Changes to any Wikipedia article: go to the article's history page and use the toolbox link labeled "Atom" to subscribe to this feed
- Recent changes (alternatively: go to Special:RecentChanges and use the toolbox link labeled "Atom" to subscribe to this feed)
- New Pages (alternatively: go to Special:NewPages and use the toolbox link labeled "Atom" to subscribe to this feed)
[edit] Externally hosted RSS feeds of Wikipedia pages
Scraped feeds from Wikipedia pages:
- Wikipedia:Announcements
- Wikipedia:Today's Featured Article — Latest 20 entries (info) — Links to full articles (info)
- Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries (info)
- Wikipedia:Picture of the day — Latest 20 entries (info)
- Wikimedians who blog on meta have many community member feeds available.
- Twitter.com/enwikipedia — featured article and picture of the day
[edit] XML exports
You can export the contents of a particular article or set of articles in XML format via the Special:Export page. This special page allows exporting the history of the page as well (up to 1000 revisions). Test out the full-history export on a page with a short history, to make sure you know what you are getting.
