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Jun 16
Wikipedia Article of the day

Hija,

Today I implemented an idea I had been playing with for some time already: make a daily RSS feed of Wikipedia articles.
Why? If you add this feed to your aggregator, you'll be served a random article every day (or maybe twice a day, still have to decide at which frequency the cronjob should run) to expand your global knowledge, not only regarding tech-stuff ;-)

The blog page is here, you can find links to the RSS/Atom/... feed on the right.

Things could be somewhat buggy for now (there are lots of articles with lots of markups, some of them forbidden by b2evo, so I have to filter them out) but as more articles are aggregated, I'll be able to squash them :-)

I hope you like (and use) the service ;-) Spread the word!

Comments:

Comment from: RealNitro [Member] Email · http://www.realnitro.be
How long do the articles stay in the mysql database? And is there some code to keep the random selector from posting the same article more then once?
PermalinkPermalink 06/17/05 @ 11:08
Comment from: Ikke [Member] · http://www.eikke.com
They stay in there forever, just like any blog item posted here.
About avoiding dupes: if a priviously-published article is fetched, the query used to add it to the database will fail. There's no code to detect this failure (yet), so if a dupe is fetched, that day there'll be no article published.
PermalinkPermalink 06/17/05 @ 12:26
Comment from: jesse blanton [Visitor] · http://daisylady.bravejournal.com/entry/14579/
a very friendly site. have a nice day! about a year ago i started: http://www.hookt-up.com/wordpress/?p=567 , small ship set out
PermalinkPermalink 10/07/05 @ 18:59

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