Cf bug 14500 and r36212 where I removed it.

(In reply to comment #1)

Cf bug 14500 and r36212 where I removed it.

From that bug: there is a <link rel="alternate"> tag pointing to the RC feed on every page. This shows up as e.g. an RSS icon in Firefox's address bar.

I suppose it's slightly off-putting to people on older browsers who don't get a UI hint like in Firefox, but still want the URI to the site RSS feed.

buzz wrote:

i made my patch because I got no UI hint in firefox on the recent changes page. Am i missing something ?
(And i saw nothing in the headers about rss on the recent changes page)

buzz wrote:

For example

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges

where is the feed?

(In reply to comment #5)

For example

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges

where is the feed?

Ha, apparently it's now missing both. Confirmed this on trunk as well.

buzz wrote:

yeh as i said in my bug. "but currently there is no RSS feed for recent changes
on the recent changes page." :). my patch fixes this, or i guess we could just revert 36212.
something must have changed elsewhere ?

bugs wrote:

The problem is not r36212, and also the patch is not the correct one. Special:RecentChanges already have syndication links, it is set in SpecialRecentchanges::webOutput() with a $wgOut->setSyndicated() call.

Note that this bug was introduced in 1.16-svn. If you look deeper, you will find that Special:UnusedCategories and possibly others are also missing syndication links.

The real problem here was introduced in r57119, which made $wgOut->setSyndicated() into a no-op.

buzz wrote:

aah. I had actually looked at that patch before, and not noticed that. Well spotted. Thanks

CCing Andrew since it's his fault :)

buzz wrote:

Any news on this ?

Fixed in r61021.