2009/8/31 Verhoeven, Peter <peter.verhoeven(a)oce.com>om>:
Hi,
It is possible to subscribe to a RSS Feed Recent Changes and New Pages.
Is there also a way to add RSS Feeds for Recent Changes and New Pages
within a specific category?
Hi,
AFAIK there is no way to do either of these things with MediaWiki by
itself. However, there is a toolserver tool that does something a bit
similar.
"Catfood" by Magnus Manske
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/catfood.php
creates a feed for pages added to a category. Note this is a bit
different to "new pages": the pages could have existed for a long
time, but only recently be added to a category.
e.g.
Feed of images added to the Featured Pictures category on Commons:
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/catfood.php?category=Featured_pictures_on_Wik…
Feed of articles added to the Linguistics category on simple.wikipedia:
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/catfood.php?language=simple&project=wikip…
(it seemed to be choking a bit on en.wikipedia, but in theory that
should also work)
Catfood is open source, and I think it wouldn't be difficult to adapt
it for your wiki. You can then use JavaScript to insert an automatic
link into the toolbox for category pages. (Like
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Screenshot_of_JavaScript_Catfood.png
- follow the links from here)
Re recent changes to a category, from what I understand, this won't
exist any time soon. A hacky solution might be:
* create a page that contains a link to every page in a category
* have a bot update the page every so often
* Use the RelatedChanges feed for that page.
cheers
Brianna
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