On 2006-02-12 09:42:02 +1100, Peter Flodin wrote:
> Community waits for no man :-)

That shows your respect to other people's work.
Sometimes it seems the community doesnt consider novell/suse employees
as part of the community.

> He will probably come to the same conclusion I have.

no he wont. we want to go a different approach.

> There are extensions to get RSS into wiki, but if you want to find out
> how to publish news via RSS from your Wikimedia wiki, you go to
> wikinews.org, as news is all they do.
> 
> They run an external perl script that converts the wikipage to RSS.
>
> They are hosted here: http://jeays.net/rss.htm and also put on feedburner.com

sounds ugly

> I think this will be the best option as we then have full control of
> the feed and it's content. (and can actually produce a valid feed)
> with various RSS versions, HTML inclusions, image inclusions etc. etc.
> Ideally it is run on a Novell server, so it is long-lived, but a
> reliable community member would suffice for me.
> 
> You could screenscrape the original html
> http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_News
> but that would tend to break with site redesigns. Though we could add
> comments in source to the page to make it easier for the start and end
> of the screenscrape.

even worse.

> A better alternative would be the use the export page function and use
> that as a source:
> http://en.opensuse.org/Special:Export/OpenSUSE_News

ugh

> Firefox looses the linefeeds in the XML parse, but they are there if
> you view source.

totally valid behavior for XML parsing.

> So anybody feel like some scripting?

reinvent wheels?

darix - a member of this community.

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