Your watchlist as an RSS feed!

Finally you can have your watchlist stream you content when the pages you are interested in have been updated!

Thanks to a new extension by Teknomunk, you can now enable the rss feed at http://lyricwiki.org/Special:WatchlistFeed.

Since this is a really great feature to have in any wiki, Teknomunk plans to make this extension public so that all MediaWikis can use this feature (it is very commonly requested). Thanks Teknomunk!

3/12/08 9:30pm EST: Upgrading LyricWiki – expect outages.

We’re going to be upgrading LyricWiki to the newest version of MediaWiki.  This is good for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that the newest versions always have the lowest number of known security vulnerabilities.

There are also some new features that our extensions can’t work without.

Teknomunk was kind enough to jump right in and test/re-write a bunch of the extensions (I think all of them actually) to make sure they work in the new version.  He also made some upgrades which only work in the new version (which was what ultimately caused the decision to upgrade… so give him mad props ).

Anyway… this is going to cause a lot of outages tonight.  I’m going to shut down the API (the SOAP), back up the database, then do the upgrades, fix what’s broken, then turn the API back on.   I’ll keep this blog updated as things progress.