Wikipedia talk:Syndication

RSS/Twitter of In The News

Hi all, I really like In The News and I feel that it's exactly the sort of news source that many people who don't currently follow the news (including me) would like to follow - timely, accurate, and non-trivial. Thus, I'd like to make an RSS and a Twitter feed of it. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to do this, and would anyone like to help out? (I've also posted this at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VPT) Mariuskempe (talk) 11:27, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

I have created the feed, it's at http://itn.svick.org. But the code is quite fragile, so if the layout of Template:ITN changes, the feed will most likely break. Svick (talk) 21:05, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

You rock! I'll experiment with turning it into a twitter feed, and publicising it a bit. Also, itn.svick.org is showing an error right now: "String was not recognized as a valid DateTime." Mariuskempe (talk) 21:55, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Allright, I've set up a twitter using dlvr - it's at https://twitter.com/#!/en_inthenews and it works beautifully! For now. :-) Also I've publicised it a bit on Quora (see http://www.quora.com/Is-there-an-RSS-or-Twitter-feed-of-the-English-Wikipedias-In-The-News-section?q=wikipedia+in+the+news). I'm happy to share the password etc for the twitter account - I don't know how things work around here. Let me know. Mariuskempe (talk) 15:22, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

Also, should we link to this discussion on WP:ITN? Mariuskempe (talk) 15:23, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

Good idea, done. Svick (talk) 23:49, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Recent change in Syndication?

I use The Old Reader to subscribe to the edit history sections of lots of articles which I want to monitor. Today I started getting lots of old content served to me. I emailed The Old Reader support and they seem to think it's on Wikipedia's end ("Seems likely that its a change on their end. I don't have a record of feed, but these old posts were created in our system today, which suggests they arrived in the feed for the first time today, and did not exist before"). Anyone know what's up? Thanks. --Pengortm (talk) 03:44, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Using Watchlist RSS update as of 2020

I've got myself into quite a few hiccups while trying to set this up. I found a bug which makes it work for the first time only after you reset your initially auto-generated token. Phab bug report link from 2018 for anyone needing further help. The instructions were out-of-date, so I updated it, even the bug reporter mentioned it being out-of-date in the link.

Additionally, I found some caveats regarding using the username argument. Since my username ("Ugog Nizdast") has a space and two uppercase characters, I noticed that argument would work only if I replaced the space with an underscore and found out it's case sensitive. Otherwise it just doesn't work, either just failing or saying "username doesn't exist". Thus, in my own example, for it to work my argument would look like:

&wlowner=Ugog_Nizdast

and these variations wouldn't work.

&wlowner=UgogNizdast
&wlowner=ugognizdast
&wlowner=ugog_nizdast

Can't speak for other cases especially for usernames having combinations of special characters. I'm just sharing what I faced to get this set up. Ugog Nizdast (talk) 13:42, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

How to exclude an editor in Recent changes feed?

How to have a feed of all recent edits, except by one particular user? Rob Kam (talk) 11:27, 26 October 2022 (UTC)

Signpost RSS feed

The Signpost RSS feed (derived from Category:Wikipedia Signpost RSS feed) could use some improvement with its titling. Currently, it produces titles like "Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-01-30/Arbitration report", with the description "New arbitrators look at new case and antediluvian sanctions: The spirit of 2006 is going strong". The actual headline of the piece is "New arbitrators look at new case and antediluvian sanctions", so that's what should go in the title field (or, if we can manage, "Arbitration report: New arbitrators look at new case and antediluvian sanctions"), not the clunky page title. Could someone familiar with RSS fix this up? Courtesy pinging Evad37, as they created the RSS category. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 03:17, 1 February 2022 (UTC)