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Syndicating wiki content with RSS

by Tim Wilson on February 13th, 2005

Jeremy Zawodny asks Why do Wiki RSS Feeds Suck?

Jeremy’s comment notwithstanding, providing an RSS feed to track changes in a wiki is a great idea, and judging from the comments to Jeremy’s post there are a lot of wiki engines that provide that feature. Some wikis include the full text of the wiki page in the feed, but most seem to show diffs (the “differences” between the original and changed pages). I have noticed that some wikis don’t advertise the presence of the RSS feeds very well (e.g., MediaWiki) so some of you might be missing out on that handy feature. I do wish that there were more RSS feeds available. With MediaWiki, for example, there seems to be a single feed for the entire wiki. I’d like to have a separate feed available for each page or, at the very least, a feed for all of the pages that I’m “watching.”

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