Talk:Feedback general
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Need RSS Feeds -- Bill Drew 13:47, 25 July 2008 (EDT)
The problem with using a wiki for this type of forum is getting articles out to people to read. A way needs to be found to disseminate your articles via RSS.
We have a blog with RSS -- Walt Crawford 14:03, 25 July 2008 (EDT)
Bill,
PLN Highlights has an RSS feed (and offers email subscriptions), with a generally-weekly post highlighting new and significantly changed articles. For example, the articles modified today will be mentioned in a post next Monday.
Given that some pages get changed incrementally fairly often, I wonder whether an RSS feed for all updated articles wouldn't be overwhelming?
(It's been suggested, and we will look into it again, though.)
And, actually, you can subscribe to New Pages or Recent Changes -- Walt Crawford 11:50, 28 July 2008 (EDT)
I'd overlooked this before--and I have to say you should approach it with caution.
If you click on either "New Pages" or "Recent changes" in the sidebar, then scroll down, you'll see an extra link in the toolbox--actually two links, one for RSS, one for Atom.
Clicking on either RSS or Atom should subscribe you or, hopefully, bring up a dialog box that allows you to specify how the subscription should work. Here's where a little caution is needed:
- Unless you choose "Titles," you'll get all the changes or all the new pages--but you'll get them in native wiki form. That may be an awful lot of content and pretty difficult to read, with various symbols showing up where you'd expect headings, bullets, etc.
If you do choose Titles, your aggregator should show a link to the appropriate page either when new pages are added ("New Pages") or when changes occur--but some changes can be pretty minor (fixing a typo, adding a link), and conversely there can be major new chunks of content that aren't new pages (e.g., adding 2,000 words to "Staff feedback and involvement").
