mwfeeds

existing feeds

Several feeds are part of MediaWiki by default. Examples links are given for en.wikipedia.org.

recent changes (rss, atom)
related changes (rss, atom) aka "recent changes linked", for Main Page
related changes (rss, atom) aka "recent changes linked", for Category:Contents
new pages (rss, atom) - can specify certain namespaces (see API for correspondences)
Page history (rss, atom), for Main Page
Watchlist (via API action=feedwatchlist)

constructed feeds

These feeds are wiki-specific and require hand-crafting. For English Wikipedia:

Spoken articles (rss) - an exercise in how to painfully create a feed via a wiki)
Today's featured article (rss?) info
Selected anniversaries (rss?) info aka "on this day"
Picture of the day (rss?) info?
Wikipedia:Announcements (rss?) info?

For Wikimedia wikis, from the toolserver:

Gallery - uploads feeds for any Wikimedia wiki, can filter by user. (choose format as RSS or Atom) info
POTD - feed of Picture of the Day from Wikimedia Commons and English and German Wikipedias. info
Wiktionary Word of the Day (rss) info?
English Wikinews feeds
German Wikinews feed (rss) info

Further information:

Warning! This project is seriously alpha. I would appreciate it if you help me test it out. Please report any bugs in the bugtracker.

Known problems include:

Feeds are mad ugly
Headings feeds can be quite slow - Google Reader having trouble loading them?

user feeds

Items from Special:Contributions/username.

site/siteurl/user/username

e.g. site/en.wikipedia.org/user/pfctdayelise

log feeds

Items from Special:Log, including uploads, user registrations, and page moves, protects and deletes.

site/siteurl/log/logtype

siteurl should be replaced with the path to your MediaWiki wiki of interest, e.g. "en.wikipedia.org".

logtype should be one of the following:

all - all logs combined
block - Block log
makebot - Bot status log
delete - Deletion log
globalauth - Global account log
gblblock - Global block log
gblrights - Global rights log
import - Import log
merge - Merge log
move - Move log
patrol - Patrol log
protect - Protection log
upload - Upload log
newusers - User creation log
renameuser - User rename log
rights - User rights log

Not all wikis will have all these logs available, and some wikis may have other types available (e.g. 'interwiki'). The bolded ones are probably the most interesting ones.

headings feeds

This feed is great for following talk or discussion pages, such as an article talk page or the Village Pump, especially high-traffic pages where the full Page history feed would be too much. Every time someone starts a new ==Heading Level 2== section, the feed updates with the contents of their initial edit. (Subsequent replies to the topic are not part of the feed.)

site/siteurl/headings/pagename

e.g. site/en.wikipedia.org/headings/Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents

special feeds

[not yet complete] This option has not yet been implemented.

site/en.wikipedia.org/special/didyouknow

more?

mwfeeds is free software: it is distributed under the MIT License. See the bugtracker or the code. README?