Wikipedia talk:Syndication

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| talk} 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). —TheDJ (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 [1]. 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)

RSS/Twitter of In The News

Hi all, I really like In The News and I feel that it's exactly the sort of news source that many people who don't currently follow the news (including me) would like to follow - timely, accurate, and non-trivial. Thus, I'd like to make an RSS and a Twitter feed of it. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to do this, and would anyone like to help out? (I've also posted this at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VPT) Mariuskempe (talk) 11:27, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

I have created the feed, it's at http://itn.svick.org. But the code is quite fragile, so if the layout of Template:ITN changes, the feed will most likely break. Svick (talk) 21:05, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

You rock! I'll experiment with turning it into a twitter feed, and publicising it a bit. Also, itn.svick.org is showing an error right now: "String was not recognized as a valid DateTime." Mariuskempe (talk) 21:55, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Allright, I've set up a twitter using dlvr - it's at https://twitter.com/#!/en_inthenews and it works beautifully! For now. :-) Also I've publicised it a bit on Quora (see http://www.quora.com/Is-there-an-RSS-or-Twitter-feed-of-the-English-Wikipedias-In-The-News-section?q=wikipedia+in+the+news). I'm happy to share the password etc for the twitter account - I don't know how things work around here. Let me know. Mariuskempe (talk) 15:22, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

Also, should we link to this discussion on WP:ITN? Mariuskempe (talk) 15:23, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

Good idea, done. Svick (talk) 23:49, 7 April 2011 (UTC)