On Mar 17, 2004, at 11:58, Andre Engels wrote:
In my discussion with Ilse (based on which I recently
sent the request
to reduce
the put_throttle), we also got to the subject of XML feeds. I
mentioned that
Yahoo was already getting one, and my contact at Ilse said he would be
interested
in such. Thus my questions:
As far as I know the Yahoo XML feed is mythical. If it exists, I don't
know about it.
The next major version of MediaWiki will have more pervasive ability to
generate feeds in RSS and probably Atom formats (currently
Special:Newpages in the CVS version can produce a simple RSS feed, but
the code's there to do more).
* Would sending out XML feeds to other parties with a
good reason for
interest
be a good idea or would it be detrimental (how much is for example
the load on
the servers of sending out an XML feed compared to being spidered by
a search
engine?)
Search engines will spider the site anyway, as they spider every other
site.
A real RecentChanges feed could be more useful to someone
mirroring/republishing the content grabbing updates live rather than
checking on demand or grabbing a huge backup dump every week.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)