RSS + DokuWiki
Including an RSS or ATOM feed in DokuWiki is simple. This functionality is built right into the software through the feed.php file.
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Okay, let's include the WebGlad feed right here:
And, let's include a feed from the DokuWiki Forum:
And, let's subscribe to the Recent Changes from this very WebGlad Wiki!
You know what's cool? You can also RSS subscribe to a namespace! That just sort of impresses me. Let's put the feed down here from this very WebGlad Wiki rss namespace.
Let's toss in the TipLine feed:
All right, so, in the real world how would we use this RSS functionality?
Well, your needs and imagination generally dictate usage. Here are a few ideas:
- You could create a page of feeds that's related to your niche. So, if your blog was focused upon using technology to facilitate education, you could have a page called Technology and Education, and on that page you could have a whole list of feeds from related blogs in your niche. This would give the user a convenient, useful spot to quickly survey an array of information from a great number of resources. That would be useful.
- The wiki admin or interested user could subscribe to the Wiki's feed and thus be notified of any changes that were made. This could be great for the admin in particular.
- If you have a user who has special privileges on a particular namespace; she could subscribe to the RSS feed of that particular namespace, which would allow her to stay on top of that section.
- If your Wiki has a blog attached to it, you could incorporate the blog's feed into the front page of your Wiki. That would be a cool, real world application.
- Needs arise as you develop further, and, you just need to keep the feature in mind so you can take advantage of it in other innovative ways.