Voici mon projet de Category Feeds proposé au Google Summer of Code.

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Here is my official application for category feeds (I've already sent a proposition on wiki-techl). It seems that the RSS part has been partly done yet, but it is not yet included in category pages, and the inclusion part is completely new.

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I propose to add two main things:

RSS feed for every category, with a real description
An article-included category limited listing

The RSS feeds as article-inclusion could be sorted by their timestamp (already in db), or another index like date.

Another functionality is a line included in the article (in the [[Category:||] tag for example), that will be given with RSS feeds and could be used in articles.

Advantages:

RSS feeds by category and with a description
Wiki gets more automatic and repeated information mistakes are reduced
Automatic last articles on portals, news, etc.
Watch lists by categories (check new pages in categories), done in user pages for example
Get partly-automatic pages with different categories (like Wikinews, last news title and description are added together with the category inclusion)
Category-based featured article (just adding the category with the description could update it automatically)

Ideas:

Sub-Categories (deep level as a parameter, or not - to study in terms of database performance).
Sum ups of categories
Add a second index to sort articles differently that alphabetic order (example dates)

Inclusion example:

{{Category:IT news|sorted=lastadded|nbitems=5|subcategories=0|description=true|modelbefore=star|modelafter=newline}}

could give

{{star}} [[Google Summer of Code]] Google is again hosting a 'Summer of Code' program through which it will provide financial assistance to students to work on open-source software projects during their summer break. {{newline}} {{star}} [[Google Summer of Code]] Google is again hosting a 'Summer of Code' program through which it will provide financial assistance to students to work on open-source software projects during their summer break. {{newline}}

with this line in the article [[Google Summer of Code]] :

[[Category:Google Summer of Code||05/01/2006|Google is again hosting a 'Summer of Code' program through which it will provide financial assistance to students to work on open-source software projects during their summer break.]]

Update to do on mediawiki:

minor database changes (only to improve speed and server load)
php RSS generation (use of existing class or redevelop since it is really simple?)
minor parser evolution for [[Category:]] tags to allow second index and description
php feed generation for the new {{Category:}} tag.
evolution of Category: page

Utilisateur:Plyd/Category Feeds

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