User:Amgine/23 Nov 2009 msg to Werdna

Hi!

Kim is prevailing upon me to e-mail you regarding the en.Wikinews bugzilla bug #20818.

I should mention at the outset that this bug is considered by the community to be the highest possible priority after WMF server failure.

Some element of the recent upgrade removed curid from the urls Wikinews uses to direct Google to flagged revisions of articles. The technique which was used was a fragile hack.

Without the curid, Google News immediately stopped distributing en.Wikinews.

I was asked to come up with a more permanent solution, one which was unlikely to be broken by future upgrades. I started developing a special page which produces xml feeds based on the Intersection (DynamicPageList (Wikimedia)) extension. You can see my documentation at http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Amgine/Google_News_Sitemap. The script is installed and working on a en.Wikinews dump at http://wiki.enwn.net/index.php/Special:SpecialGNSM.

This isn't the most-current version, but I gave up on the project due to what I will politely describe as the usual level of dev support for sisterprojects.

Amgine

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