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The extension RSSFeeder introduces a special page that provides RSS feeds for many aspects of the wiki.
Contents
- 1 What is BlueSpiceRSSFeeder? The RSS feeder page
- 2 Where to find BlueSpiceRSSFeeder? 3
- Types of feeds 4
- 3 Getting the RSS feed URL
- 5 See also
The RSS feeder page[edit | edit source]
BlueSpiceRSSFeeder introduces a special page that provides RSS feeds for many aspects of the wiki.
Where to find BlueSpiceRSSFeeder?[edit | edit source]
BlueSpiceRSSFeeder The RSS feeder can be accessed from the left navigation , under in the tab "Global action", item "RSS feeder" the Global actions menu or by navigating directly to Special:RSSFeeder.
Types of feeds[edit | edit source]
The special page offers many different types of information to display:
- Recent changes - feed with an overview of the recent changed in the wiki
- Own contributions - feed with an overview of user's personal contributions to the wiki
- Page - feed with updates for a singe page - page to monitor can be selected in the provided combo box
- Namespace - feed with updates for a single namespace - namespace to monitor can be selected in the provided combo box
- Category - feed with updates for a single category - category to monitor can be selected in the provided combo box
- Watchlist - feed with different types of data for the pages in user's watchlist
Getting the RSS feed URL[edit | edit source]
After clicking on "Show" next to any of the types of feeds, a new page with the URL that provides the feed will be opened. Use this URL to connect client apps for monitoring RSS feeds. Using this link user , users will get automatically logged in to into the wiki, so that even content not available for the anonymous users will be avaiableis visible to them.
See alsoWhitelisting external feeds[edit | edit source]
Reference page for this extension.
External feeds can be embedded on a wiki page by using the <rss> tag. An administrator has to whitelist any external feed in the Config manager (exension: BlueSpiceRSSFeeder) before the feed can be displayed in the wiki
- URL whitelist: RSS feeds need to be whitelisted here by an administrator before they can be displayed in a wiki page.
- Maximum number of allowed redirects: If there are URL redirects for any of the whitelisted URLs, the number of redirects needs to be adjusted (usually to 1 or 2).
