Extension:WikiFeeds

The RSS and ATOM 0.3 feeds coming out of MediaWiki are not robust enough for all individuals. Hence the need for WikiFeeds. WikiFeeds is an alternative feed generator that outputs RSS 2.0 and ATOM 1.0 feeds. It can generate the following feeds:


 * Recent page changes
 * Newest pages
 * Recent changes by user
 * Newest pages by user
 * User watchlist (can be either public or private)
 * Recent changes for articles in a category
 * Newest articles in a category

WikiFeeds is present as a special page. It also inserts itself into the page view process and creates links to the available feeds. For example, when you are on a category page, the appropriate links to the per-category feeds are inserted into the HTML document for feed auto-discovery.

Demo
See http://wiki.case.edu/Special:WikiFeeds

Instructions
Most recent version of source code is available at http://opensource.case.edu/svn/MediaWikiHacks/extensions/WikiFeeds/trunk/SpecialWikiFeeds.php

Installation directions are located in this source file.

Feeds can be accessed by visiting Special:WikiFeeds in your wiki. This page should show up on the special page list page.

WikiFeeds requires PHP 5 because it makes use of the PHP 5 class constants, the PHP 5 DOM functions, and the PHP SPL.

Newer versions of WikiFeeds have some of the class declarations split off in a separate file, GenericXMLSyndicationFeed.php. This file can be obtained at http://opensource.case.edu/svn/MediaWikiHacks/classes/GenericXmlSyndicationFeed/GenericXmlSyndicationFeed.php. It is recommended to use the most recent version of this file with WikiFeeds.

Updates

 * Re-factored to a Special Page on March 22, 2006. (version 0.2)
 * Version 0.4 features a disk-based cache system and the ability to localize messages using the MediaWiki messages system
 * Version 0.5 has private watchlist feeds implemented as well as minor bug fixes.

Author
WikiFeeds is authored by Gregory Szorc. More information can be found at http://opensource.case.edu/projects/MediaWikiHacks.