Tracking changes on the developer wiki just got a whole lot easier! Now you can get RSS or atom feeds that just include the articles in the categories that you’re interested in.
For example, to track my current obsession (Qt) I can use this feed: http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/index.php/Rss?categories=Qt&feed=rss.
If I’m interested in all C++ related topics, then I can use the pipe symbol (“|”) to add other categories I want into my feed e.g.: http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/index.php/Rss?categories=Qt|Symbian_C%2B%2B|C/C%2B%2B|&feed=rss.
Unfortunately I can’t be more restrictive – for example I can’t get a feed with only those articles that are in both Chinese AND Symbian C++ categories.
The wiki help page Help:Tracking Changes has links for some feeds I think developers are likely to find useful – such as the categories for Symbian’s main programming environments (Symbian C++, Qt, Web Runtime, Python etc …) and the main natural languages of our users (currently English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish and Russian). The page also has information on other ways to track changes in the wiki.
Most users won’t need to bother, but if you need to restrict your feed to a particular namespace or output format, there are instructions on how to do here.
We’re going to continue to improve the useability of the wiki over the coming months and years. If you’ve got any bright ideas, come along to our Birds of a Feather discussion “Building knowledge through wiki documentation” at SEE2009 at 3pm on Tuesday 27th October.
