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This howto describes how to (effectively) use RSS feeds from Wikidot.com to be notified about things you care about ;-)
Tip: As of 2021年09月24日, there is a 3rd-party application that enables you to receive forum notifications right to your inbox — see http://community.wikidot.com/app:notifications
Introduction
Today more and more web services offer RSS feeds as a convenient way for the users to be notified about the changes. Wikidot.com exports a lot of feeds to help its users be notified about changes to their user account, chages to the content pages and forums.
Wikidot offers email notifications only for events related to your account via the daily digest email option (configurable at your account » account settings » notifications). For anything else you should use feeds along with special software (desktop feed aggregators) or web-based aggregators.
Why use feeds?
Well, if you use feeds from Wikidot.com you can be informed within seconds about:
- events related to your account (membership, new private messages etc.)
- any changes to your watched pages and threads
- changes made to pages of particular site (e.g. all the recent page changes from this Community Site are here
- new threads and posts from discussion forums (whole forum or selected categories or single threads)
List of feeds available
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Public feeds
http://community.wikidot.com/feed/site-changes.xml
http://community.wikidot.com/feed/forum/threads.xml
http://community.wikidot.com/feed/forum/ct-10.xml new threads in forum category no 10
http://community.wikidot.com/feed/forum/posts.xml
http://community.wikidot.com/feed/forum/cp-12.xml new posts in forum category no 12
http://community.wikidot.com/feed/forum/t-8407.xml new posts in thread no 8407
Private feeds
http://community.wikidot.com/feed/admin.xml
Watched item changes via RSS feeds:
http://www.wikidot.com/feed/watched/page-changes.xml
http://www.wikidot.com/feed/watched/forum-posts.xml
These feeds rely on a basic HTTP Authentication mechanism.
See http://www.wikidot.com/account:you/start/watched-changes for more details.
Tip: replace "community" with your wikiname.
Private feeds usually cannot be used directly since you must provide authentification through a login, your email address and a password (the hashed password available in section "Notification" of the Site Manager).
However if you are an admin of a site you can use http://freemyfeed.com/ which will enable you and your users to view your private feeds in our browser and on your iGoogle homepage.
For more info see http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-148028/private-rss-feed#post-452022
Receive notifications by email
You can use external services such as FeedBlitz(http://www.feedblitz.com) to convert any RSS feed from Wikidot into an email digest.
Example of using FeedBlitz to provide a forum feed
- Register at FeedBlitz
- Create a new feed
- Embed the generated form code on your wikidot page
You can get forum updates by email:
[[=]]
[[embed]]
<form Method="POST" action="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?AddNewUserDirect">
Enter your Email<br><input name="EMAIL" maxlength="255" type="text" size="30" value=""><br>
<input name="FEEDID" type="hidden" value="95900">
<input type="submit" value="Subscribe me!">
<br>Powered by <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com">FeedBlitz</a></form>
[[/embed]]
[[/=]]Another example with FeedBlitz
A click on one of the links below will lead the reader on a FeedBlitz form where the reader will have to enter his email address to subscribe to the feed. No prior subscription by the wiki manager is needed.
http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Track=http://community.wikidot.com/feed/site-changes.xml
http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Track=http://community.wikidot.com/feed/forum/threads.xml
http://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?Track=http://community.wikidot.com/feed/forum/posts.xml
Invite friends to subscribe to your feeds
Simple invitation with FeedBurner
FeedBurner http://www.feedburner.com is the leading provider of media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs and RSS feeds.
[http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailFlare?itemTitle=Wikidot%20Community%20New%20Posts&uri=http://community.wikidot.com/feed/forum/posts.xml Tell a friend]In action: Tell a friend
Feedburner was acquired by Google in June 2007. Source: http://www.feedburner.com/google
Related links
subscribe-to-community-sites-and-forum-changes-via-feedblitz
help:rss
snippets.wikidot.com
snippets.wikidot.com/code:feedburner
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Comments
In the guide it says you can get a RSS feed for watched pages, but the list of example feeds doesn't seem to include this?
Also, is it possible to get a RSS feed for changes to a single page (non-forum)?
In the guide it says you can get a RSS feed for watched pages, but the list of example feeds doesn't seem to include this?
I added the feed samples in this HowTo: http://community.wikidot.com/howto:be-notified-rss-feed-guide
Also, is it possible to get a RSS feed for changes to a single page (non-forum)?
First, you have to watch a page. I.d. at the bottom a page, click on history and you will see at the top right of your screen the add to watched command.
Second, go to the my account menu and click on watched pages
(http://www.wikidot.com/account:you/start/watched-changes)
Third, look for Via RSS feed in the left menu.
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I finally got the RSS working on my own wiki site (iPhone Campus), however, it feeds all of changes on my site because I have to use "site changes" feed. I only want readers to see new articles posted on my site, not other changes on the site. How do I do it? I saw on some page it claims that you can filter pages with certain tags in the feed. That should work for me, but I don't see the detailed instructions. Does anybody knows how to do it?
Thanks!
Use the listpages module.
Craig,
Thanks the suggestion! I know listpages module, however, I am looking for feed, not creating a page listing pages. The following is the feed that I am using, I tried change "site-changes" to "listpages", but it doesn't work.
Please look at the listpages module a bit more. Consider looking at the items on the page containing "RSS". It can produce feeds, tho it may just update when the list of pages changes, not when the pages themselves change.
Graig,
Thanks for the hint. Finally I got it working. The following is code that I am using. However, this displays the post title, author and date in addition to the RSS icon/link. Although this is fine with me, I am wondering is there a way to just get the RSS without displaying those information. I tried removing them, but no success.
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[[module ListPages category="" rss="iPhone Campus" tags="review must-have how-to jailbreak unlock application"]]
%%linked_title%%
by %%author%% %%date%%
tags: %%tags%%
[[/module]]
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Hum, maybe you can just put the list pages somewhere else (on another page) and just link to the feed, or possible put it in a folding block thing.
I am wondering is there a way to just get the RSS without displaying those information
Yes, this is possible. You do not have to use [[module ListPages ...]] at all. Just set up a link as described in http://community.wikidot.com/help:rss — there you'll find many if not all possible ways how to build Wikidot RSS feeds.
In your example the link would be something like
http://wiki-name.wikidot.com/feed/pages/category/category-list/tags/review,must-have,how-to jailbreak,unlock,application/t/iPhone+Campus
Replace wiki-name with the name of your wiki, and category-list with the category of your posts.