[e-lang] Wiki directions

[James Graves]

Kevin Reid wrote:

> The recent changes Atom feed has a bug: entries are given <id>s  
> according to the page URL. This is a spec violation whenever there is  
> more than one change to a page in the feed:
> 
> "The content of an atom:id element MUST be created in a way that  
> assures uniqueness."
> 
> Furthermore, it causes my feed reader to
> 
>    - consider every page deletion (for example) to be an update to an  
> old entry, and not a new recent entry;
> 
>    - show only one of the recent changes to any given page.
> 
> The IDs should instead be derived from the specific versions/changes/ 
> events for each page.

Please review:

http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3998

There's an attachment to this bug report that appears to be addressing 
this issue.  Are they talking about the same thing?  Do you want me to 
try to apply the patch?

James