Anne Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > Our wiki uses Mediawiki 1.14, soon to be updated to 1.16. From the day we > updated to 1.14 the RSS feed has been problematic, often sending as many as 30 > entries for one new one, resulting in each entry being repeated many times. > The number of false entries appears to be related to the number of changes > that have been made in a period of time, probably 24 hours, which suggests to > me that it's sending a cache or a queue that doesn't get cleared.
> I tried the Atom feed, and have had no problems with it whatsoever. However, > Atom feeds are not as well known as RSS ones, and that leaves us with a > quandary. Do we continue to offer a broken feed? Sooner or later someone is > going to ask us why it's not fixed, since we know it to be broken. If we > don't, users will ask us why we don't offer the best-known feed. > How have others resolved the issue? There was a missing guid element in RSS feeds (cf. bug #7346) that got fixed in r61090. You might want to back- port this patch to 1.14 for the time being to check if it solves your issue. Tim _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
