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RSS should put edit summaries, not just pagenames, into <title>s
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Gentlemen, one might think "I'll improve my life by switching to RSS",
however there is a loss incurred when browsing
Special:RecentChanges&feed=rss instead of Special:RecentChanges.

The edit summaries (e.g., "Correcting fungus inventory") are now not
visible anymore, but instead one must individually browse each RSS
article to see them.

They should probably be right there in the RSS <title>, as well as
<description>.

(By the way, userlang=en has no effect on feed=rss. Maybe it could
change some of the <channel> level items, mainly <description>, but
probably best not to bother...)

Version: 1.13.x
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://transgender-taiwan.org/index.php?title=%E7%89%B9%E6%AE%8A:RecentChanges&feed=rss

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 10:27 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Page-diffs.
• bzimport set Reference to bz16646.
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Jidanni created this task.Dec 14 2008, 7:36 PM
Jidanni added a comment.Jun 21 2009, 11:31 PM

uselang is separate bug 17868.

Qgil added a comment.Apr 16 2013, 6:45 AM

It seems good design to have titles as titles and descriptions of changes in the descriptions, instead of the title as well.

Resolving as WONTFIX. Feel free to reopen if you disagree.

Nemo_bis added a comment.Apr 16 2013, 7:34 AM

(In reply to comment #2)

It seems good design to have titles as titles and descriptions of changes in
the descriptions, instead of the title as well.

Twitter uses title as well. Just saying. :)

Qgil added a comment.Apr 17 2013, 3:55 PM

All what a Twitter feed gives is a tweet, a single entity. Makes sense to use Title alone for it.

Still, if you think there is a point for this request please reopen. I'm not an authority on the matter. See also the progress at Bug 17869.

Jidanni added a comment.Apr 17 2013, 4:16 PM

Or maybe add the number of chars changed.
Anything better than just
Margaret Thatcher
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Margaret Thatcher
Barack Obama
Margaret Thatcher
Barack Obama

Aklapper added a project: MediaWiki-Page-history.Sep 20 2019, 7:48 PM
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