This thread is about the technical solutions of creating an RSS feed
of openSUSE news. Nothing else, please don't hijack this thread, if
you want to discuss whether we should have an RSS feed, please start a
new thread.

Some observations, and possible avenues.
1. The recent changes page and newpages on the wiki already has RSS.
http://en.opensuse.org/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss
http://en.opensuse.org/index.php?title=Special:Newpages&feed=rss

We could have a News: namespace and the Recentchanges page allows
filtering on Namespace so for example
http://en.opensuse.org/index.php?title=Special%3ARecentchanges&namespace=100
is all recent changes in our current SDB: namespace.
It would have been nicer to use the Newpages page, but this doesn't
allow filtering by namespace.
http://en.opensuse.org/Special:Newpages&feed=rss

2. There are things called wiki bots, scripts which automatically
contribute and edit wikis. a.) Is there an existing RSS bot that reads
wiki pages and creates an RSS feed? Or b) alternatively puts an RSS
feed into a wiki page. This last option would still require us to have
our news hosted somewhere that creates an RSS feed.

Let's see if we pool our expertise and knowledge whether we can come
up with a suitable solution.

Peter 'Pflodo' Flodin.

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