Mailing List Archive: RSS-Feeds

RSS-Feeds

Oct 5, 2002, 8:40 AM

Post #1 of 3 (460 views)

Some anonymous user today made a very interesting proposal on the German
Wp:
You should offer an RSS-Feed!

I had no idea what this was, but it sounded interesting. So I surfed a
bit around and found this German description:
http://derschockwellenreiter.editthispage.com/rss.html
with some links, most of them in English:
http://www.schockwellenreiter.de/directory/techZeuch/rss/index.html

Here's a nice English article which introduces to the concept:
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/personal_tech
nology/4203205.htm

I think this is a great idea! We could offer a RecentChanges-Feed, a
NewArticle-Feed, a ArticleNowBiggerThen1500Chars-Feed or whatever. It's
just two hours ago that I read about this thing for the first time, so
I'm still thinking about it ... :-)

What do you think? Is this doable?

Kurt

Re: RSS-Feeds [ In reply to ]

lars at aronsson

Oct 5, 2002, 10:26 AM

Post #2 of 3 (453 views)

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Kurt Jansson wrote:
> You should offer an RSS-Feed!
> What do you think? Is this doable?

It certainly is doable. Several wikis already implement this.

Compare the recent changes list, http://susning.nu/Senaste_nytt
with this RSS feed http://susning.nu/rss
or its text version http://susning.nu/rss.txt
(same contents declared as Content-Type: text/plain).

I'm not certain who actually uses it, but it was fun to implement.

Another way is to import an RSS feed into a wiki page, e.g. the RSS
feed from Slashdot is imported into http://susning.nu/Slashdot
just by saying [(rss http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf)] in the wiki
page.

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Re: RSS-Feeds [ In reply to ]

jasonr at bomis

Oct 7, 2002, 12:35 PM

Post #3 of 3 (452 views)

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We used to have an rss feed for every article in the original
wikipedia. It was used for the main Bomis.com search engine, so we
could import enough data to index wikipedia. We have been using an
outdated .rss file ever since the conversion to the new software...

Jason Richey

Kurt Jansson wrote:

> Some anonymous user today made a very interesting proposal on the German
> Wp:
> You should offer an RSS-Feed!
>
> I had no idea what this was, but it sounded interesting. So I surfed a
> bit around and found this German description:
> http://derschockwellenreiter.editthispage.com/rss.html
> with some links, most of them in English:
> http://www.schockwellenreiter.de/directory/techZeuch/rss/index.html
>
> Here's a nice English article which introduces to the concept:
> http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/personal_tech
> nology/4203205.htm
>
> I think this is a great idea! We could offer a RecentChanges-Feed, a
> NewArticle-Feed, a ArticleNowBiggerThen1500Chars-Feed or whatever. It's
> just two hours ago that I read about this thing for the first time, so
> I'm still thinking about it ... :-)
>
> What do you think? Is this doable?
>
> Kurt
>
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