Extension:Bullet Feed

The Bullet Feed extension adds an action to pages that allows a bulleted list to be displayed as an RSS feed for easy updating and formatting on, for example, a main page. Links are not required for items, and if no link is given, the default link is  substituting where needed. This project was initially intended for a minimalistic view of the news page that could be posted on the main page without needing to reformat the page. Such example main pages would be

Usage
 ITEM DESCRIPTION  Enclose the bulleted-list in the tags   and  , with the descriptions listed in between the tags   and  . This extension automatically puts an alternative link in the source of the page, so the orange RSS icon shown in Firefox or Internet Explorer 7 will revert to the RSS link, or you can access it directly via:.
 * Item1 [link]

Example
 This is an example of an item with a description. 
 * Item with link
 * Item without link
 * Item with a description
 * Item with other formatting options

Installation

 * 1) Copy the code from the section with the code
 * 2) Place the code in a file called
 * 3) Create a directory   in your   directory
 * 4) Move the file to this   directory
 * 5) Add to the end of LocalSettings.php:
 * 6) Installation can now be verified through Special:Version on your wiki

Code

 * BulletFeed.php

Thanks

 * Christopher Finke for helping me out with some issues with his RSS Ticker, an add-on for firefox
 * The immense contributors here on the MediaWiki extensions, your code helped understand the wiki much better to accomplish the goal.