Extension:FeaturedFeeds/WMF deployment/blogpost

Today, we will deploy a new extension, 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 reusers.

On the first stage links to the feeds will be present only in page metadata, later we will add them to the sidebar on main pages, if communities wish so.

FeaturedFeeds integrates with existing main page infrastructure: it uses data from templates that show content depending on current date. Because user-generated content is involved, each wiki's administrators need to set up the extension themselves (1-2 MediaWiki: namespace edits per feed). See these instructions and the FAQ for details for details. My edits setting FeaturedFeeds on English Wikipedia can also be used as example.

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

Max Semenik, mobile team developer