Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Mirroring

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How can we generate a good RSS feed for Signpost articles, and perhaps simultaneously create a better/alternative reading experience? This list compiled by Pete Forsyth (talk) in late December 2016, with substantial help from Arborrhythms.

Potential problems to address:

  1. Get listed on Google News
  2. Better SEO performance (considerations might include "ref=canonical", URL naming, title tags in headers...)
  3. Human-readable version of Signpost without unnecessary Wikipedia menus and links (top and left)
  4. Create a version of the Signpost that's nice to read on mobile devices (mobile web, Wikipedia app, possibly even Signpost app...)
  5. Consideration: Grabbing the comments (transcluded from the talk page) is important. Updating frequently (if mirrored) to include recent comments.

Two possible kinds of solutions[edit]

  1. No mirroring, but RSS feed that links to existing content.
  2. Our own web site, mirroring content, with its own RSS

Technical approaches[edit]

  1. Special:export
    • Produces xml which needs to be rendered. Even templates are not rendered!
  2. ePub export
  3. mirroring -- using something like wget / httrack, and then tidying up with a script (ideally no human editing needed)
    • Not as perfect as it should be (image width, bullets on galleries...) Pulls across dependencies that may need tweaking. Links need to be updated to reflect signpost.wiki.
  4. FeaturedFeeds:
  5. Integration with WordPress:
  6. Printable:
    • External links become URLs
    • Otherwise, pretty good.
    • &printable=yes
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