Last modified: 2014-06-05 09:58:51 UTC
Unlike feed for such page history, neither RSS nor Atom feed for Special:Recentchanges shows the editor's name/IP address, which decreases the usability of the feed pretty much.
This appears in the <author> (Atom) or <dc:creator> (RSS) field.
Well, the deal is that common RSS readers do not display those fields, so I'd propose to duplicate that information to <title> field as page history feeds do. (Change the summary to more descriptive if this is not describing properly)
Looks like a browser issue, these are standard tags
*** Bug 16949 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Would be good to take a quick survey of common feed readers before continuing; no sense in beating people over the head for not knowing they're missing something when we can easily stash it somewhere else if that's useful.
Browsers are the first, what people use to read feeds, so how do they behave: * Chrome 0.2.149.27 shows the fields in both Atom & RSS. * Fennec 1.0a2 shows the fields in both Atom & RSS. * Firefox 2.0.0.18 does not display the fields in both feed types. Sage extension (1.3.10) doesn't display them either. * Firefox 3.0.5 does not display the fields in both feed types. Sage Too extension (1.0.1) shows the fields in both Atom & RSS. * Flock 2.0.3 does not display the fields in both feed types. * Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.5512 shows the fields in both Atom & RSS. * K-meleon 1.5.2 shows the fields in both Atom & RSS. * Mozilla 1.7.13 shows the fields in both Atom & RSS. * Netscape 9.0.0.6 does not display the fields in both feed types. * Opera 9.63 does not display the fields in both feed types. * Opera mini (via web site emulator) does not display the fields in both feed types. * Safari 3.2.1 does not display the fields in both feed types. * SeaMonkey 1.1.14 does show the fields in both Atom & RSS. Public feed services: * Feedburner.com does not display the fields in both feed types.
Changed component to "RecentChanges"
(In reply to comment #5) > [...] when we can easily stash it somewhere else if that's useful. Indeed, it should be enough to add the author to the <title> field, as in history feeds. It's a bit annoying when you're using an actual feed reader which shows also the author, but definitely bearable.
