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crashlmc · 09-22-2005, 11:40 AM

Hello All,

I just read the post on Yahoo MSG to RSS and thought I should post a similar resource: Wikipedia Via RSS.

The feed works for every topic (just replace Topic_name with the exact wikipedia topic to the end of url).

Url format: http://www.blinkbits.com/rssfeeds/wi...p?w=Topic_name

Example: http://www.blinkbits.com/rssfeeds/wi...?w=Derek_Jeter

Here are some notes about the feed:

All feeds include attribution back to wikipedia and the GNU comment so please do not use the feed without providing wikipedia proper attribution etc...
The feed is cached to prevent runtime queries of Wikipedia.
The latest version validates but it still needs some formatting work on some wikipedia pages that use tables, images, etc... We'd love to improve upon this even more and publish it under an open-source license so let me know if you are interested in helping put the finishing touches on the feed

09-22-2005, 11:40 AM	#1
crashlmc Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2005	Get Wikipedia Via RSS Hello All, I just read the post on Yahoo MSG to RSS and thought I should post a similar resource: Wikipedia Via RSS. The feed works for every topic (just replace Topic_name with the exact wikipedia topic to the end of url). Url format: http://www.blinkbits.com/rssfeeds/wi...p?w=Topic_name Example: http://www.blinkbits.com/rssfeeds/wi...?w=Derek_Jeter Here are some notes about the feed: All feeds include attribution back to wikipedia and the GNU comment so please do not use the feed without providing wikipedia proper attribution etc... The feed is cached to prevent runtime queries of Wikipedia. The latest version validates but it still needs some formatting work on some wikipedia pages that use tables, images, etc... We'd love to improve upon this even more and publish it under an open-source license so let me know if you are interested in helping put the finishing touches on the feed