How to Get Wikipedia via RSS Feed

Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that is written by volunteers from all over the world. Since articles can be edited by other users, Wikipedia authors need to keep a regular watch on their articles. Wikipedia and other websites provide RSS feeds to make this job easier. RSS feeds allow users to keep track of changes and updates to Wikipedia articles in a newsreader, without going to the Wikipedia website.

Difficulty:

Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Open your Internet browser. In the address bar, enter "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=." After the "=", enter the name of the topic your are interested in. Use the underscore symbol (_) between words.

2. Type "&action=history&feed=rss" after the subject. For example, if you want feeds about Matt Damon, enter "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=
   Matt_Damon&action=history&feed=rss." When the page appears, click the "Subscribe to this feed" link at the top of the page.

3. Change the "en" as needed to display results in a different language. Supported languages include German (de), Italian (it), Portuguese (pt),French (fr), Dutch (nl), Spanish (es), Polish (pl), Japanese (ja) and Swedish (sv.)

4. Use the BlinkBits website to subscribe to feeds as an alternative to Wikipedia. Open your Internet browser. Enter "http://www.blinkbits.com/en_wikifeeds_rss/". After the /, enter the name of the topic that interests you. Use the underscore symbol (_) between words. Click on the link to subscribe to feeds.

5. Browse through the listing of available feeds at the BlinkBits website by entering "http://www.blinkbits.com/wikifeeds.php" into your browser.

6. Use the feed to make changes to your Wikipedia user profile. Enter "http://www.blinkbits.com/en_wikifeeds_rss/User:" followed by your Wikipedia username.

Tips & Warnings

• The Wikifeed service at BlinkBits is sometimes disabled so that system upgrades can be run to support the heavy processing demands.