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Monday, April 7, 2008

syndication model - part of the page

in addition to syndicating the whole page we are looking into ways to republish parts of the page.

there are two ways to do this:
- using <feed> text </feed> plug in that uses tag to enclose the parts of texts that need to be republished
http://jimbojw.com/wiki/index.php?title=WikiArticleFeeds_Extension or
- push the content from under each of the subheadings only.

we’ll also provide the feed of recent changes (standard mediawiki feature) and other standard feeds.
both of these approaches have potential problems : <feed> could be easily broken or edited by different users (intersecting <feed> tags). pushing the content from within the certain subheading automatically does not have this kind of problem but it could be broken if the given section is renamed or page is reordered.
in order to use this functionalities we would have to build system that will notify the user when their part of page has been changed or deleted. tbd.
we’ll also provide the feed of recent changes (standard mediawiki feature) and other standard feeds.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

People should read this.