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Adding an RSS feed for Portal:Current events

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Hi! Firstly, apologies if this is not the right way to ask for administrator help—I'm not used to how these things work yet.

As mentioned on the Portal:Current events talk page, there have been requests over the years to generate an RSS feed for current events. I've asked whether there were any objections to this, but frankly I can't think of any (happy to wait for potential replies for a few more days, if you think that would be good). So I think it's time to get this done!

It should be fairly straightforward if we use the MediaWiki/FeaturedFeeds extension. Per the extension docs, the following steps are needed:

Create the feed page under MediaWiki:Ffeed-currentevents-page ("currentevents" would be the feed's name). It seems that only an administrator can create this page.
Add the following as the page's source: Portal:Current events/{{#time:Y F j}}

If I understand the docs correctly, feed config also needs to be added to the global FeaturedFeeds settings:

feed name, e.g. "currentevents"
feed title, e.g. "Wikipedia Current events"
feed description, e.g. "Wikipedia list of daily news entries with links to background articles."
"expression that evaluates to the title of the page with today's feed entry", e.g. Portal:Current events/{{#time:Y F j}}
name of a feed entry, e.g. {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTDAY}} current events

I'm not sure where to look at current settings for existing Wikipedia feeds (article of the day, picture of the day, on this day), it would probably be best to take a look to make sure that these assumptions are correct.

All of this should generate a feed at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=featuredfeed&feed=currentevents. It is essentially the same as existing featured page feed, with a slightly different syntax for #time to match the format of Current event page names (for example "2025 July 30").

Could someone set this up? (Ideally someone who's already dealt with FeaturedFeeds, since there might be gotchas that I'm not aware of.) Robinmetral (talk) 09:09, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

One thing that's different about the Current events feed is that the entry for, let's say, January 10 should land in the feed on January 11 (because the date pages are continuously updated throughout the day). I wonder if there's a way to insert this logic in the #time function? Robinmetral (talk) 11:53, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This may perhaps be better suited to Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab) or Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals) depending on how robust your concept is. You can read the expectations for each page in the yellow box at the top of each page. Good luck!-- Ponyo^{bons mots} 21:30, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you—I didn't know about the Village pump pages! I'll get a proposal ready and submit it there. Robinmetral (talk) 03:24, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Just an update: it's actually possible to pipe "-1 day" into the #time function and get yesterday's date: 2025 July 29 Robinmetral (talk) 05:09, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Mike Cheslik (January 20)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Dan arndt were:

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The comment the reviewer left was:

Fails WP:ANYBIO / WP:NCREATIVE - requires significant coverage, not mentions in passing, about the individual (mot his films) in multiple independent secondary sources. Noting interviews with Cheslik are all primary sources and not independent. Also IMDb is not an acceptable source.

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Dan arndt (talk) 04:50, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the quick review Dan arndt! I disagree: WP:NCREATIVE says that an individual is notable if "The person has created or played a major role in co-creating a significant or well-known work or collective body of work. In addition, such work must have been the primary subject of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews". I'd argue that this applies here—see the Reception section for Hundreds of Beavers. Point taken about the need for secondary sources, I thought that the ones I added were enough for a stub, but I'm happy to find more. I'll re-submit after I get time to improve the draft. Robinmetral (talk) 05:06, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Mike Cheslik (February 17)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Flat Out was:

This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of people). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

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Flat Out (talk) 05:52, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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