Various aspects of Wikipedia can be monitored with RSS or Atom feeds, to make it easier to keep track of changes.
Contents
Atom (1.0) feeds
- Changes to any Wikipedia article: go to the article's history page and use the toolbox link labeled "Atom" to subscribe to this feed
- Recent changes (alternatively: go to Special:RecentChanges and use the toolbox link labeled "Atom" to subscribe to this feed)
- New Pages (alternatively: go to Special:NewPages and use the toolbox link labeled "Atom" to subscribe to this feed)
- User watchlist feed; watchlist with all changes (not just the most recent)
- Contribution pages for a specific user: go to the user's contribution page and use the toolbox link labeled "Atom" to subscribe to this feed
RSS feeds
- Changes to any Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ARTICLENAME&action=history&feed=rss, where ARTICLENAME is the article's name as it appears in your browser's address bar (i.e. with spaces replaced by underscores, etc.)
- Recent changes
- New Pages
- User watchlist feed; watchlist with all changes (not just the most recent)
- User contributions: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=USERNAME, where USERNAME is the name of the user whose contributions should be included in the feed
Watchlist feed with token
You can set up an RSS or Atom feed of your watchlist that is accessible even when logged out[1]:
- Go to Special:Preferences
- Click the "Watchlist" tab
- Make up a token, or copy and paste the "randomly-generated value" into the "Watchlist token" box
- Click "Save"
- Your watchlist RSS feed can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=feedwatchlist&wlowner=USERNAME&wltoken=TOKEN, where USERNAME is your username without the User: prefix and TOKEN is the watchlist token you saved in your preferences. If you would prefer an Atom feed rather than an RSS one, add "&feedformat=atom" to the Link of your feed.
Similar to your watchlist on Wikipedia, the feed of your watchlist could be customized. Therefore you have to add different parameters to the link of your feed, see documentation on Mediawiki.
XML exports
You can export the contents of a particular article or set of articles in XML format via the Special:Export page. This special page allows exporting the history of the page as well (up to 1000 revisions). Test out the full-history export on a page with a short history, to make sure you know what you are getting.
See also
- meta:Syndication feeds
- Wikimedians who blog on Meta offer various community member feeds
- Recent changes IRC channels on Meta
- Help:RSS on Commons
References
- ^ Kristian Risager Larsen (2009-09-24). "Personal watchlist through RSS from Wikipedia". Retrieved 2010-03-18.
External links
Scraped feeds from Wikipedia pages:
- Twitter.com/enwikipedia — featured article and picture of the day
- Template:Did you know, Twitter.com/DidYouKnowWP — newest articles selected at Wikipedia:Did you know.
- mp3-Podcast for the Spoken Wikipedia.