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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 RSSFeeder?
- 2 Where to find RSSStandards?
- 3 Functions of RSSStandards
- 4 See also
RSSFeeder offers a special page that describes and enables RSS-Feeds for chosen areas of the MediaWiki.
The RSS feeder page[edit | edit source]
Go to special pages. You will find the special pages linked in the left navigation under "tools" or in the widget bar (star symbol on the right side). It's also possible to use Special:Special pages in the URL of the browser. Under the item "BlueSpice" you will find the special page "RSSFeeder".
Alternatively you can type Special:RSS_Feeder into the browser bar.
The RSS feeder can be accessed from the left navigation in the the Global actions menu or by navigating directly to Special:RSSFeeder.
Types of feeds[edit | edit source]
Screenshot: Subscribe to some wiki information
Choose the service/information you want to subscribe:
- Blog: Subscribe to a blog in the wiki. Choose a namespace the blog belongs to.
- Recent changes: Overview of the recent changes in the Wiki
- Own contributions: Feed with an overview of your own contributions to the Wiki.
- A certain page: Stay informed about a special article
- Namespace: Stay informed about a namespace
- Category: Stay informed about a certain category
- Watchlist: Get news about changes in articles in your watchlist. Choose a timeframe.
To subscribe to RSS-Feeds click at the button "display" at the right side and copy the URL into your RSS programm. Or choose one of the offered programs. First news are shown below.
Directly with URL[edit | edit source]
For advanced users: To subscribe to changes in your wiki, add the following in the browser bar:
/index.php?title=Spezial:Letzte_%C3%84nderungen&feed=rss
So you can integrate the feed in your browser.
See also[edit | edit source]
Our reference page.
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, users will get automatically logged into the wiki, so that even content not available for anonymous users is visible to them.
Whitelisting external feeds[edit | edit source]
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).
