Nice. Let's add these MediaWiki feeds to the en.planet feeds, assuming they
are all English and since Mediawiki is like
a subgroup of Wikimedia.

On Sat, Jun 2, 2018 at 3:53 AM, Sam Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:

> At the hackathon last week I had a play with setting up a similar thing
> just for MediaWiki feeds:
>
> https://tools-static.wmflabs.org/mediawiki-feeds/
>
>
>
> On 31/05/18 09:33, Daniel Zahn wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> this is an announcement to let you know that the service ($lang).
>> planet.wikimedia.org, an RSS feed aggregator for all Wikimedia related
>> blogs, has switched software.
>>
>> You can find the English version at  https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/
>>
>> Other existing languages are listed on
>> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planet.wikimedia.org#Whi
>> ch_languages_exist
>> ?
>>
>> Today we moved away from planet-venus and to a newer package called
>> "rawdog" that does the same thing as before, fetching a bunch of RSS feed
>> and combining them into a single page and feed.
>>
>> The reason is that planet-venus has been dropped in Debian stable
>> (stretch)
>> because it was unmaintained, so we had to find an alternative to be able
>> to
>> upgrade the underlying servers to a current OS version.
>>
>> If you never heard of planet, here you can find more info:
>>
>> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planet.wikimedia.org
>>
>> If you already use it but just subscribe to the "feed of feeds" then
>> nothing should change for you.
>>
>> (Though note that we support RSS 2.0 but not a separate Atom feed anymore.
>> We are redirecting the old atom.xml URL to the new (and old) URL
>> rss20.xml.)
>>
>> If you already use it and look at the web UI, enjoy the new theme that
>> Paladox imported from KDE to make it look about 150% better than before.
>> (thanks to him for that theming work!)
>>
>> We also applied patches to make it look more like our former planet for a
>> smooth transition.  A "wmf1" package has been built and uploaded at
>> https://apt.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/pool/main/r/rawdog/
>>
>> If you want to know more about "rawdog":
>>
>> https://offog.org/code/rawdog/
>> https://packages.debian.org/stretch/rawdog
>>
>> If you want to add your blog feed, feel free to upload changes or just
>> drop
>> me a mail.
>>
>> Bugs can be reported here:
>> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/413/
>>
>> Tickets are:  https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180498 ,
>> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168490
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>>
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