RSS/Atom news channel for Wikinews

[Iaroslav Vassiliev]

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Hi,

 

I recently developed a MediaWiki extension, that allows to export news in RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 format in easy manner. The extension is called "News Channel" and is now available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:News_Channel. Basically, when user or aggregation program requests a feed, the extension gets specified number of latest articles from some specified category (e.g. [[Category:Published]]), exports it to RSS/Atom feed format and sends to user. Articles's title will be the headline and article's text will be the description of news item. Feed is automatically linked from every page of the wiki, like recent changes feed is linked. First I developed it for my own site, but I thought it could be useful for other projects, especially for Wikinews. Customization is possible.

 

What do you think?

 

Best regards,

Iaroslav Vassiliev

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[Chiacomo]

I rather like the idea of this extension... The Wikinews RSS feed is nice, now, but having the article text as the description would be *great*.

 

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-C.

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 8:32 PM, Iaroslav Vassiliev <codedriller@...> wrote:

Hi,

 

I recently developed a MediaWiki extension, that allows to export news in RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 format in easy manner. The extension is called "News Channel" and is now available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:News_Channel. Basically, when user or aggregation program requests a feed, the extension gets specified number of latest articles from some specified category (e.g. [[Category:Published]]), exports it to RSS/Atom feed format and sends to user. Articles's title will be the headline and article's text will be the description of news item. Feed is automatically linked from every page of the wiki, like recent changes feed is linked. First I developed it for my own site, but I thought it could be useful for other projects, especially for Wikinews. Customization is possible.

 

What do you think?

 

Best regards,

Iaroslav Vassiliev

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[bawolff]

/me like

Questions:
*Category addition possible (feeds for category:Europe combined with
published/whatever) not that important as we can just use the current
system for the non-primary feeds (aka
http://toolserver.org/~zach/cgi-bin/rss.cgi?cat=Space )
*Is the entire article in the feed, or just the first paragraph

-bawolff

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 9:00 PM, Chiacomo <chiacomo@...> wrote:

>
> I rather like the idea of this extension... The Wikinews RSS feed is nice, now, but having the article text as the description would be *great*.
>
> Incidentally, Iaroslav is not a member of this list, but the address has been whitelisted for any future posts he may send. You may wish to copy the original sender on any replies relevant to him.
>
> -C.
>
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 8:32 PM, Iaroslav Vassiliev <codedriller@...> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently developed a MediaWiki extension, that allows to export news in RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 format in easy manner. The extension is called "News Channel" and is now available at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:News_Channel. Basically, when user or aggregation program requests a feed, the extension gets specified number of latest articles from some specified category (e.g. [[Category:Published]]), exports it to RSS/Atom feed format and sends to user. Articles's title will be the headline and article's text will be the description of news item. Feed is automatically linked from every page of the wiki, like recent changes feed is linked. First I developed it for my own site, but I thought it could be useful for other projects, especially for Wikinews. Customization is possible.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Iaroslav Vassiliev
>> _______________________________________________
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>> Wikinews-l@...
>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l
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>
>
>
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