[Open-bio-l] Open-Bio Main Wiki Page

[Dave Clements]

Hi Peter, Chris,

The GMOD home page (http://gmod.org) news item list is created from the GMOD
News RSS Feed.

The home page renders the feed using the FeedImport extension (
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FeedImport).

The RSS feed is generated from the GMOD News page (
http://gmod.org/wiki/GMOD_News) using the WikiArticleFeeds extension (
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiArticleFeeds).

My memory is that FeedImport was a tough install due to its dependency on
Magpie and Snoopy.  I just updated the WikiArticleFeeds extension and that
was easy.

Be warned that something in the process is sensitive to bad MediaWiki
markup.  That is, if you, for example, don't close a tag in your news item
text, your list of news items may be garbage until you fix it and the feed
refreshes.

I also have a sneaking suspicion that rendering the news feed on the home
page might be slowing down load times noticeably.  :-(

Hope this helps,

Dave C.

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Chris Fields <cjfields at illinois.edu> wrote:

> On Dec 16, 2009, at 8:44 AM, Peter wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 3:34 AM, Hilmar Lapp <hlapp at drycafe.net> wrote:
> >> Sounds great to me. Have you seen the GMOD wiki? It also has feeds
> embedded
> >> in the front page, just as another example.
> >>
> >> -hilmar
> >
> > The GMOD one is pretty slick.
>
> Yes, I like that one as well, had been thinking about using something like
> it for the bioperl page.
>
> > Someone with suitable permissions on the open-bio
> > wiki will need to make any changes, since the main
> > page is (quite sensibly) protected.
> >
> > Peter
>
> What is your user id on that wiki?  I think I can grant you sysop privs.
>  If not, I can definitely edit that page for you, just let me know what you
> want.
>
> chris
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