On Apr 4, 2005 9:34 PM, Minty <mintywalker(a)gmail.com> wrote:
What I would really like is to be able to
"subscribe" to a specific
Wikipedia article and be notified **in a manner of my choosing** when
updates occur.
via Bloglines, another RSS/news reader
As for RSS (& Atom, etc), see lots of previous posts on these lists
[this one & mediawiki-l]. Or rather, don't bother, because they can be
summarised thus:
* people like the idea of RSS-ised watchlists
* people like watchlists to be private
* an RSS feed for watchlists could be made pseudo-private by having a
random token in its URL, and only activating it when the user first
asked for it (and, presumably, giving them the option of
re-randomising or disabling it)
* feed aggregators don't, in general, support secure connections, but
I think some do, so that's another option; not that MediaWiki can use
that kind of login yet either, mind you
See also
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=471,472,943
- 472, for instance, discusses turning individual page histories into
feeds, for a more fine-grained kind of "subscription" which wouldn't
suffer the privacy problem.
--
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]