From d9794c9c0fdcad9f06e38694b3ff5c523e0cd70f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brandon Rozek Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2024 11:30:42 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] New post --- content/blog/rss-feed-watchlist-wikipedia.md | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/blog/rss-feed-watchlist-wikipedia.md diff --git a/content/blog/rss-feed-watchlist-wikipedia.md b/content/blog/rss-feed-watchlist-wikipedia.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9d410d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/rss-feed-watchlist-wikipedia.md @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +--- +title: "How to get a RSS Feed of your Wikipedia Watchlist" +date: 2024-01-07T11:29:01-05:00 +draft: false +tags: [] +math: false +medium_enabled: false +--- + +Instead of having to manually log in to Wikipedia to look at your watchlist, you can use your RSS feed! + +**Step 1:** Get your token + +Go to your [preferences](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-watchlist-token). Log in if not already. + +Then click on the *Watchlist* tab. Scroll down to *Tokens*. Click the *Manage Tokens* button. + +Hold on to the token for the next step. + +**Step 2:** Import the RSS feed to your feed reader. + +Direct URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=feedwatchlist&allrev&wlowner=USERNAME&wltoken=TOKEN + +Replace `USERNAME` and `TOKEN` with their respective information. + +**That's it!** Each new item in the RSS feed will look like the following (feed reader dependent): + +``` +Reinforcement learning +December 31, 2023 at 11:28 PM by OAbot + +[[Wikipedia:OABOT|Open access bot]]: arxiv updated in citation with #oabot. (OAbot) +``` + +At a glance, you can see: + +Line 1: Title of Wikipedia Page Edited + +Line 2: Time and Author of Edit (may be username or IP) + +Rest: Description of edit. + +From here you can check the diffs to make sure that the edit stands. + + + +## Resources + +https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Watchlist +https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3aSyndication