On 16/09/05, John Anthony Hartman <john(a)websage.org> wrote:
I am trying to solve a problem and hope that someone
might have already
considered or actually done this already. I was wondering if any one had
created any code that would collect My Watchlist data and published it as an
RSS feed. If no one has can someone please point me in the right direction
in the code to accomplish this myself?
This is an oft-discussed but not-yet-implemented feature: see
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471
The basic problem is that people see the watchlist as private
information - watching someone else's could facilitate anti-social
users "stalking" those pages, etc. RSS feeds, on the other hand, tend
to be public resources - there's not really a standard way of making
them secure. See previous discussions (e.g. the one linked from that
bug report) for details.
--
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]