Extension:FeaturedFeeds/WMF deployment/blogpost

Today, we deployed a new MediaWiki extension to all Wikimedia wikis, FeaturedFeeds. It creates syndication feeds (Atom or RSS) of wiki's featured content, such as featured articles or pictures of the day, giving our projects a new way to deliver content to our readers and users.

For now, links to the feeds only appear in page metadata; in the future, we will add them to the sidebar on main pages, if communities wish so.

FeaturedFeeds integrates with the existing main page infrastructure: it uses data from templates that show content depending on the current date.

Because user-generated content is involved, local wiki administrators need to make a few edits to  pages to set up the extension. Instructions and a FAQ will guide you through the process. You can also use my edits to set up FeaturedFeeds on the English Wikipedia as an example.

Not sure how to proceed? Just ask for help on IRC, in #mediawiki and #wikimedia-mobile; we'll be happy to help you set up the extension on your wiki.

Max Semenik Mobile team developer