Last modified: 2010-11-26 03:55:01 UTC
Currently, headlines from the WMF blog (http://blog.wikimedia.org/) are manually copied onto the wikimediafoundation.org website to be published. I've reviewed the RSS extension (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RSS) and updated it to address some concerns. Roan or Tim should review it again and then it should be deployed on the wikimediafoundation.org website.
I think all of the known issues have been addressed (See http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?path=/trunk/extensions/RSS&title=Special:Code/MediaWiki/path) and all we're waiting on now is a final OK from Tim before deploying. I'm going to update the documentation on MW.org (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RSS) now.
Looks like Tim did this today: http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/index.php?diff=30243&oldid=30236&diffonly=1 Currently, trying to use the extension with the code "<rss>http://blog.wikimedia.org/feed/</rss>" on wikimediafoundation.org throws an error: Failed to load RSS feed from http://blog.wikimedia.org/feed/: There was a problem during the HTTP request: 403 Forbidden Roan thinks the proxy (url-downloader.wikimedia.org) might not be passing the user-agent.
No, the problem is that that proxy is configured to deny requests to hosts on the internal network: acl to-wikimedia dst 208.80.152.0/22 acl to-wikimedia dst 91.198.174.0/24 acl to-wikimedia dst 10.0.0.0/16 ... http_access deny to-wikimedia If blog.wikimedia.org is the only host we need to access, then I can just disable the proxy.
(In reply to comment #3) > If blog.wikimedia.org is the only host we need to access, then I can just > disable the proxy. The current use-case is for blog.wikimedia.org only (<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Template:Blogbox>). It's not unreasonable to think the extension might be used with other domains/subdomains, though. For example, techblog.wikimedia.org or an outside FOSS blog or an outside personal blog of a staffer. If it's possible to have the extension work with any RSS feed, that'd be best.
I've disabled the proxy.
Okay, this is working now: http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Blogbox&oldid=52180 I think this bug is resolved as "fixed" now, unless there is further proxy work you think needs done.
