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Voici mon projet de Category Feeds proposé au Google Summer of Code.

[modifier] Extrait de mon application

Here is my official application for category feeds (I've already sent a proposition on wiki-techl). It seems that the RSS part has been partly done yet, but it is not yet included in category pages, and the inclusion part is completely new.

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I propose to add two main things:

• RSS feed for every category, with a real description
• An article-included category limited listing

The RSS feeds as article-inclusion could be sorted by their timestamp (already in db), or another index like date.

Another functionality is a line included in the article (in the [[Category:||] tag for example), that will be given with RSS feeds and could be used in articles.

Advantages:

• RSS feeds by category and with a description
• Wiki gets more automatic and repeated information mistakes are reduced
• Automatic last articles on portals, news, etc.
• Watch lists by categories (check new pages in categories), done in user pages for example
• Get partly-automatic pages with different categories (like Wikinews, last news title and description are added together with the category inclusion)
• Category-based featured article (just adding the category with the description could update it automatically)

Ideas:

• Sub-Categories (deep level as a parameter, or not - to study in terms of database performance).
• Sum ups of categories
• Add a second index to sort articles differently that alphabetic order (example dates)

Inclusion example:

{{Category:IT news|sorted=lastadded|nbitems=5|subcategories=0|description=true|modelbefore=star|modelafter=newline}}

could give

{{star}} [[Google Summer of Code]] Google is again hosting a 'Summer of Code' program through which it will provide financial assistance to students to work on open-source software projects during their summer break. {{newline}} {{star}} [[Google Summer of Code]] Google is again hosting a 'Summer of Code' program through which it will provide financial assistance to students to work on open-source software projects during their summer break. {{newline}}

with this line in the article [[Google Summer of Code]] :

[[Category:Google Summer of Code||05/01/2006|Google is again hosting a 'Summer of Code' program through which it will provide financial assistance to students to work on open-source software projects during their summer break.]]

Update to do on mediawiki:

• minor database changes (only to improve speed and server load)
• php RSS generation (use of existing class or redevelop since it is really simple?)
• minor parser evolution for [[Category:]] tags to allow second index and description
• php feed generation for the new {{Category:}} tag.
• evolution of Category: page