I think Craig is mistaken on lack of support for non-en scripts. http://toolserver.org/~cspurrier/rss/rss.php?lang=ta&family=wikinews&categories=%E0%AE%86%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BE&limit=25&title=Latest+in+Tamil+Wikinews
Appears to be supporting using Category:ஆப்பிரிக்கா Just make sure the url values are properly urlencoded. -- -bawolff Caution: The mass of this product contains the energy equivalent of 85 million tons of TNT per net ounce of weight. On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Sri Sritharan <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Craig & Bawolff > > Thank you for your help in this matter. I've changed the (CSpurrier's) tool > to (simple) default. > > http://toolserver.org/~cspurrier/rss/rss.php?lang=ta&family=wikinews&categories=Published&limit=25&title=Latest+in+Tamil+Wikinews > I'll wait till Craig fix his tool to point the link to the first page of the > ta.wikinews.org. > > Thanks for the help. > Regards > Sritharan (Kanags) > > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Craig Spurrier <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> At the moment, the toolserver based RSS feed does not support category >> names in other scripts. It should be able to handle other scripts for >> the tile and description though. Getting this fixed is fairly high on my >> priority list, so hopeful English categories will only be temporary. >> -Craig >> >> bawolff wrote: >> > CSpurrier's tool needs to be modified. Link should not be broken >> > though, it just goes to the feed itself, which is not where it should >> > go. (It should go to the main page of project in question, or be >> > configurable) >> > (Theres the potential a broken feed reader may not recognize entity >> > references in url, but url itself is fine). >> > >> > You are aware that the feed is using english category names, with an >> > english description, and ordering by last edit? >> > (Specificly you are using a feed with the following parameters: Get 20 >> > articles from tamil language wikinews in category Published and not in >> > Category:Disputed Category:No_publish or Category:Brief, ordered by >> > last touch (aka last edit, or last time cache was flushed, etc) sorted >> > by oldest edit first, with the title of the feed set to "Latest in >> > Tamil Wikinews", and the description of the feed set to "Wikinews, the >> > free news source you can write. For more information, or to see all >> > stories, visit http://ta.wikinews.org"; ) >> > >> > (Normally you'd want to order by the date the article was "published" >> > (aka the date the article was added to the tamil equivalent to >> > category:Published), not the last edit date. Otherwise if someone >> > edits the article a year after it was written, the edit date (last >> > touched date actually, things other then edits [like ?action=purge] >> > can reset this) would reset the date. This is probably not what you >> > want. Also, considering this is a feed for the tamil language, one >> > would think that you would want to use the translation of the word >> > publish for the category, not the english word. Similiarly you would >> > not want to exclude categories which probably do not exist on tamil >> > wikinews. Last of all, you definitly would not want to order them >> > ascending (oldest articles first). Normally feeds show latest news, >> > not oldest news. >> > >> > >> > Also If you plan to directly use the toolserver feed, it might be best >> > to link to the toolserver instead of feedburner. >> > -- >> > - Bawolff >> > Caution: The mass of this product contains the energy equivalent of 85 >> > million tons of TNT per net ounce of weight. >> > >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikinews-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikinews-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l > > _______________________________________________ Wikinews-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l
