robchur wrote:

It would be much more reliable if we were told what kind of RSS feeds were
needed, so we could provide those instead of users having to implement hacks.

Well currently we want feeds for audio wikinews content. Someone records
something, lists in on [[N:WN:AW]]. then ideally the RSS feed picks it up. As of
right now the external feed for Latest news works ok, its the audio one that
doesn't. Other things we may eventually want is individual feeds for each
country (RSS DPL's), but we're need to grow bigger before that happens. I think
the reliability of a solotion using ctype=application/rss+xml would be fairly
good, as it could be all done up using templates, and then protected/semi-protected.

A cool solution would be to have iside pages things like DPl's but not visible.
like this (on page foo):
<RSS>
item=foo
link=image:blah.jpg
</RSS>
which are invisible. but if you go through a special page, like special:RSS/foo
it'd turn it into an RSS feed based on the <RSS> tags in the page. However
that'd proablly be a lot of work to implement.

We definitely will not fulfill this request as it would be a security risk
(arbitrary HTML included in the RSS feeds -> JavaScript execution -> XSS
security holes).

But I would very much support a good mechanism for building RSS/Atom feeds from
content under user control.