Extension:FeaturedFeeds

FeaturedFeeds is an extension that creates daily feeds (Atom or RSS) of wiki's featured content (ranging from Featured Articles to Media of the Day). The feeds are added to site's main page and are available via the API. See also: /WMF deployment, wikis using this extension.

Using FeaturedFeeds
This extension requires that wikis use an automated process to publish their featured content daily (or at least very often).

Installation

 * 1) Download the files from SVN or download a snapshot. Choose the version that matches your version of MediaWiki.
 * 2) Create a directory   in your   directory.
 * 3) Extract the files to this   directory.
 * 4) Add to the end of LocalSettings.php:
 * 5) Installation can now be verified through Special:Version on your wiki

API module
FeaturedFeeds adds API action=featuredfeed. Parameters:
 * feedformat: feed format, rss or atom. If omitted, RSS will be assumed.
 * feed: Feed name. Required.
 * language: Feed language. Not the language of Wikipedia from which to retrieve data, but akin to uselang=<...> parameter to index.php. Might be ignored, depending on each feed's settings. If omitted, content language will be assumed.