[pmwiki-users] AllMajorChanges functionality and clarification on how web feeds work

[Petko Yotov]

I have committed to Subversion a function to keep the previous 
$page['time'] attribute when the "Minor edit" checkbox is selected.

See documentation at:

   https://www.pmwiki.org/EditVariables#EnableMinorEditKeepMeta

You can get the pre-release from ChangeLog to test it:

   https://www.pmwiki.org/ChangeLog

Please report if you notice any problems.

Petko

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On 11/05/2025 20:15, Petko Yotov wrote:
> Sorry, the Cookbook:MajorChanges recipe seems to claim that the RSS
> feed would only show the last "major" edit and time for pages. This is
> incorrect.
> 
> When you use that recipe, the feed items will be in the same order as
> the links in the page (or add &trail=Site.AllMajorChanges to the url).
> 
> However, when the individual RSS items are generated, every linked
> page is listed with its last modified description, title, date,
> summary, and author. It is the last ones, not the last major ones.
> 
> The AllMajorChanges page lists for example the page Dayon as it had a
> major edit in January. But when the feed is generated, it sees this
> page in the list and pulls the latest edit information which was
> today.
> 
> So your observation is correct.
> 
> Apparently there is a feature request from 2005:
> 
>   https://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PITS/00623
> 
> It was marked with low priority, a single user voted, and nobody
> pushed for it. Maybe now is a good time to find a way to implement it,
> either in the core or as a recipe?
> 
> Petko
> 
> 
> On 11/05/2025 18:37, Markong wrote:
>> Hello list!
>> 
>> I'm having an hard time understanding how the generated web feeds
>> work: what I'm trying to achieve is described here [1], in particular
>> I'm trying to generate an rss/atom feed with all the major changes
>> (wiki changes except minor edits).
>> 
>> The problem is that when I look at the Site.MajorChanges [2] page, I
>> can see that correctly only major edits are listed, but if instead I
>> try to generate a rss feed for that page e.g.: [3] the generated feed
>> contains the major changes *and* also all the minor edits which I
>> don't want to be added there !
>> 
>> I've reviewed quite thoroughly the web feeds doc. [4] and despite
>> founding the page a bit convoluted, from what I understand [2] content
>> structure represents a valid wikitrail like the companion standard [5]
>> all changes page, yet its rss feed [3] contain extra entries.
>> 
>> The cookbook recipe starts with "Create group.MajorChanges pages and
>> Site.AllMajorChanges to track all major changes.." which I think I
>> have created (just inserted the URLs in the browser bar and saved the
>> pages), is that enough to create those pages ?
>> 
>> What the cookbook page author means [1] with "If the page
>> Site.AllMajorChanges is used as part of an RSS feed, the RSS feed will
>> show all of the major changes made to a wiki." ?
>> 
>> Am I misunderstanding something or is there some more recent and easy
>> ways to achieve what I'm trying to achieve ?
>>