Author: zak

Description:
On MediaWiki.org, please install an extension that will allow import of RSS feeds.

The extension should manage the import of RSS feeds securely and robustly. I don't have an opinion on which extension is best (or even if any extension is good enough for our purposes.)

The extension also needs to only allow trusted users on MediaWiki.org to set up RSS imports – it's too risky (in several different senses) to include arbitrary content from unknown sources.

Background

Last week, I added a news section to the MediaWiki.org developer hub article (http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_hub#Developer_news).

Chatting about this with RobLa, he noted that all of these news items should have gone on the tech blog (http://techblog.wikimedia.org) and that it would be likely best to post developer news in one central place and then pull the feed into places where news is needed.

As a side note, we should categorize posts on the tech blog so that we can differentiate between timely posts (like a post about service outages or the engineering updates) and posts means to encourage action (like a post about making extensions use resource loader before 1.17 is released.)

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement