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Wikipedia RSS Feeds

Category: Education
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Wikipedia should have RSS feeds. Personally, I'd suggest feeds like "Article of the Hour," and "Most Recently Created."

I'd also like to see some sort of random-selection feed, but I don't know if that would work well with existing readers and aggregators.

MikeMol, Sep 23 2004

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Go to their main page. Look for Toollbox. Find link to Recent Changes. I see RSS Atom.

sevans, Sep 23 2004

I've put together a RSS Feed for Wikipedia. ia RSS. The feed works for every topic (just replace Topic_name with the exact wikipedia topic to the end of url).

* Here is the url format: http://www.blinkbits.com/rssfeeds/wikipedia.php?w=Topic_name* Here is an example: http://www.blinkbits.com/rssfeeds/wikipedia.php?w=Derek_Jeter

Note: The feed is cached so that only very few of the requests have to burden the Wikipedia servers.

You can also use the feed to publish and track changes to your own user profile by using the following file format. Replace Blinklmc with your name...

http://www.blinkbits.com/rssfeeds/wikipedia.php?w=User:Blinklmc

The feeds include attribution back to wikipedia and the GNU note so please do not use the feed without providing wikipedia proper attribution etc...

If you are a wikipedia mod/ sysops/ superhero etc... please let me know if you'd like to add the RSS feed to each of the topic pages or use it in some other fashion.

-- Wikipedia User:Blinklmc

crashlmc, Oct 09 2005

An update to my previous comment... the rss feed now is now using the following format: http://www.blinkbits.com/en_wikifeeds_rss/derek_jeter

Also, the preview of the feed includes a wikipedia/ flickr mashup with the wikipedia article and flickr photos related to the article. It is pretty neat.

crashlmc, Dec 20 2005