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== RSS ==
== RSS ==


[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Really_Simple_Syndication RSS (Really Simple Syndication)] lets you subscribe to a page. Updates appear in a "feed" which is automatically updated. On a supported browser like [http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/livebookmarks.html Firefox 3.5], on any regular wiki page and some special ones, you see an RSS icon in the location bar. For example, for this page, it's <code>https://wiki.secondlife.com/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&feed=rss</code>. Click that icon to get the page's RSS link. You can bookmark this or add it to a feed reader.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Really_Simple_Syndication RSS (Really Simple Syndication)] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(standard) Atom (Atom Publishing Protocol)] let you subscribe to a page. Updates appear in a "feed" which is automatically updated. On a supported browser like [http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/livebookmarks.html Firefox 3.5], on any regular wiki page and some special ones, you see an RSS icon ([[File:Feed-icon.png|15px|link=]]) in the location bar. For example, for this page, it's <code>https://wiki.secondlife.com/w/index.php?title=Subscribe&feed=rss&action=history</code>. Click that icon to get the page's RSS link. You can bookmark this or add it to a feed reader.

Revision as of 12:55, 7 December 2009

Want to be notified when a page on this Wiki changes? It's easy.

Watch list

At the top of every page is a Watch tab.

  1. Login to wiki.secondlife.com .
  2. Go to a page you want to watch.
  3. Click the Watch link.

Updates appear on your My watchlist page, whose link is always shown towards the top-right of the page. You can watch as many pages as you'd like.

RSS

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and Atom (Atom Publishing Protocol) let you subscribe to a page. Updates appear in a "feed" which is automatically updated. On a supported browser like Firefox 3.5, on any regular wiki page and some special ones, you see an RSS icon () in the location bar. For example, for this page, it's https://wiki.secondlife.com/w/index.php?title=Subscribe&feed=rss&action=history. Click that icon to get the page's RSS link. You can bookmark this or add it to a feed reader.