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April 8, 2002

Wiki and RSS

Wiki sites are getting bit by the RSS bug.  A number of Wiki implementations now support RSS files of changes.  My personal favorite Wiki implementation is UseModWiki.  RSS code isn't built into the current release, but there are various patches available.  

Wikis and RSS should fit together naturally - Wikis generate list of recent changes (e.g,. Meatball's recent changes), but I've been subscribed to Meatball's changes as an RSS channel, and for some reason I've found it less than useful.  I think part of the reason is that Recent Changes gives you some context; typically, changes are listed by date with author, and by seeing the last few days of changes at once, you can get a sense of where the Wiki is going right now.  Having the changes trickle in once per hour is much less useful.