On Sunday 07 March 2010 18:26:01 Tim Landscheidt wrote:
> Anne Wilson <an...@kde.org> wrote:
> > Our wiki uses Mediawiki 1.14, soon to be updated to 1.16.  From the day
> > we updated to 1.14 the RSS feed has been problematic, often sending as
> > many as 30 entries for one new one, resulting in each entry being
> > repeated many times. The number of false entries appears to be related
> > to the number of changes that have been made in a period of time,
> > probably 24 hours, which suggests to me that it's sending a cache or a
> > queue that doesn't get cleared.
> > 
> > I tried the Atom feed, and have had no problems with it whatsoever. 
> > However, Atom feeds are not as well known as RSS ones, and that leaves
> > us with a quandary.  Do we continue to offer a broken feed?  Sooner or
> > later someone is going to ask us why it's not fixed, since we know it to
> > be broken.  If we don't, users will ask us why we don't offer the
> > best-known feed.
> > 
> > How have others resolved the issue?
> 
> There was a missing guid element in RSS feeds (cf.
> bug #7346) that got fixed in r61090. You might want to back-
> port this patch to 1.14 for the time being to check if it
> solves your issue.
> 
We'll do that, thanks

Anne
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