Yes they provide realtime IRC feeds.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_channels#Recent_changes
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Omid Rouhani <[email protected]>wrote:
> I wonder if anyone in this list is aware of a way to see what
> Wikipedia articles have been updated "recently" (say during the last
> 24 hours or so).
>
> I'm aware that Wikipedia provides data dumps here:
> http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/
>
> However, those are from October of last year and I want to download
> fresher data, and instead of doing 3-4 million HTTP request and
> download each individual page manually from Wikipedia every day, I
> thought perhaps there is a way to find out what articles have recently
> changes so one could keep a constantly fresh copy of Wikipedia locally
> without re-downloading pages that have not been updated.
>
> I'm not sure if this is possible, but someone here might be aware of
> some kind of feed like this just giving me a list of updated Wikipedia
> pages.
>
> So to clarify, what I'm looking for is to have access to fresh
> Wikipedia data locally (say 24 hours or 7 days old at most), without
> putting a great load on Wikipedia servers (to not download every page
> every day).
>
>
> Thanks
> /Omid
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> This SF.net email is sponsored by:
> SourcForge Community
> SourceForge wants to tell your story.
> http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword
> _______________________________________________
> Dbpedia-discussion mailing list
> [email protected]
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
>
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by:
SourcForge Community
SourceForge wants to tell your story.
http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword
_______________________________________________
Dbpedia-discussion mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
