Help:Wikipedia RSS Feed User Manual

Overview
This feature is part of the project to add IFTTT (IF This Then That) support for Wikidata. The main idea here (proposed by Stephen LaPorte) was to provide a means for users who don't want to use the [https://ifttt.com/discover IFTTT website] to get updates about triggers from the Wikipedia channel. The project was worked on by Derick N. Alangi in Google Summer of Code 2016 and mentored by; Lydia Pintscher AKA @nightrose, Stephen LaPorte, Marius Hoch and Bene Star (Bene*). Summarily, the project (as proposed) was to build IFTTT support for Wikidata (Wikidata IFTTT Triggers).

Getting started
'' This section will introduce you to the manual and some useful tips that you will use while reading the manual. ''

Requirements
In this section, all the requirements necessary for the usability of the RSS feature of the Wikipedia IFTTT web application will be mentioned with a brief description of them and what they are used for.

Softwares
Assuming you already have a computer with you and a good internet connection (pre-requisites), below are the following softwares you need in order to fully explore this feature;


 * Web Browser: A piece of software used to surf the web. There are various web browsers that are available out there:- Google Chrome, Safari, Mozilla Firefox etc.  I'm using Google Chrome (in this case) for the purpose of this manual.

How to use
This section will give a step-by-step approach on how to access the RSS feeds in the web browser, subscribe to via a feed reader, receive updates and delete subscriptions (in case not needed). As already mentioned above, Vienna will be the RSS feed reader software used by the interfaces of most of the RSS feed readers out there are similar.

Accessing the RSS feeds via a web browser

 * Open your web browser (e.g. Google Chrome).


 * On the address bar, type in the URL: https://tools.wmflabs.org/ifttt-testing/ifttt/v1/rss-feeds.

Subscribe to an RSS via Feed Reader

 * Open up Vienna or any RSS feed reader of your choice.

You can spend sometime playing around with the RSS feed interface to know more about how it works and more of its functionalities like; refreshing the interface to get updates on feeds (but this happens in the background automatically in most cases).

Feedback
In case you find something in this documentation or help page which is unclear or not well structured, please feel free to improve it or drop a message on the discussion page and it will improved.

While following the steps above on how to set this up, and noticed something is missing, just as well, leave a message on the discussion page so it should be looked at and included.

Conclusion
Assuming you've read this entire help page, you now know how to subscribe to a basic RSS using a feed reader to get updates from the Wikipedia RSS feed channel. If you didn't understand something at any point in the documentation (maybe it was unclear), please do drop a message on the talk page for improvement or to give some feedback. Checkout the feedback section of this page to see how you can give us feedback in order for the document to be improved. In addition, you can also edit the page to make it better :).