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title: "How to get a RSS Feed of your Wikipedia Watchlist"
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date: 2024-01-07T11:29:01-05:00
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draft: false
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tags: []
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math: false
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medium_enabled: false
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---
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Instead of having to manually log in to Wikipedia to look at your watchlist, you can use your RSS feed!
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**Step 1:** Get your token
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Go to your [preferences](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-watchlist-token). Log in if not already.
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Then click on the *Watchlist* tab. Scroll down to *Tokens*. Click the *Manage Tokens* button.
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Hold on to the token for the next step.
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**Step 2:** Import the RSS feed to your feed reader.
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Direct URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=feedwatchlist&allrev&wlowner=USERNAME&wltoken=TOKEN
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Replace `USERNAME` and `TOKEN` with their respective information.
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**That's it!** Each new item in the RSS feed will look like the following (feed reader dependent):
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Reinforcement learning
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December 31, 2023 at 11:28 PM by OAbot
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[[Wikipedia:OABOT|Open access bot]]: arxiv updated in citation with #oabot. (OAbot)
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```
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At a glance, you can see:
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Line 1: Title of Wikipedia Page Edited
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Line 2: Time and Author of Edit (may be username or IP)
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Rest: Description of edit.
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From here you can check the diffs to make sure that the edit stands.
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## Resources
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https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Watchlist
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3aSyndication
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