[WikiEN-l] Re: RSS feed not working for Google Personal

Fri Sep 16 14:06:10 UTC 2005

If that's so, then you should be able to sort the problem by using this
form of the link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recentchanges?feed=rss

WT

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Timwi [mailto:timwi at gmx.net]
> Sent: 16 September 2005 2:47 PM
> To: wikien-l at wikipedia.org
> Cc: wikitech-l at wikimedia.org
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] Re: RSS feed not working for Google Personal
>
>
> Phil Boswell wrote:
>>
>> The response was as follows:
>>   Your search
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss
>>   was blocked by that feed's robots.txt.
>>
>> What's going on?
>
> It means that Wikimedia have kindly asked Google not to access certain
> parts of the site (namely everything in /w/) and that Google is kind
> enough to abide by it.
>
> Timwi
>
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