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

Fri Sep 16 14:32:40 UTC 2005

"Worldtraveller" 
<wikipedia at world-traveller.org> wrote in 
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> From: Timwi [mailto:timwi at gmx.net]
> Sent: 16 September 2005 2:47 PM
> > 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.
> 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

You beauty, that works a treat. Which would likely explain all the hassle 
I've been having trying to get the various Wikicities feeds into the same 
page.

Would it be really stupid to ask why the URL sin't presented in this form on 
the actual page?
-- 
Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]] 