Unlike feed for such page history, neither RSS nor Atom feed for Special:Recentchanges shows the editor's name/IP address, which decreases the usability of the feed pretty much.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
Unlike feed for such page history, neither RSS nor Atom feed for Special:Recentchanges shows the editor's name/IP address, which decreases the usability of the feed pretty much.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
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Open | Feature | None | T5646 RSS, Atom, XML syndication feeds (tracking) | ||
Open | Feature | None | T15045 Recentchanges rss feed should display user name |
Well, the deal is that common RSS readers do not display those fields, so I'd propose to duplicate that information to <title> field as page history feeds do.
(Change the summary to more descriptive if this is not describing properly)
Would be good to take a quick survey of common feed readers before continuing; no sense in beating people over the head for not knowing they're missing something when we can easily stash it somewhere else if that's useful.
Browsers are the first, what people use to read feeds, so how do they behave:
Public feed services:
(In reply to comment #5)
[...] when we can easily stash it somewhere else if that's useful.
Indeed, it should be enough to add the author to the <title> field, as in history feeds.
It's a bit annoying when you're using an actual feed reader which shows also the author, but definitely bearable.
RSS is kinda dead these days and most browsers don't support direct rendering anymore, and the feed itself isn't incorrect, so probably can be closed as declined?