Now we look at creating and maintaining an RSS Feed page for a User blog or Department Blog.
Having created your blog page is the first step (Please click here for a howto concerning creating Blog pages), the next is creating an RSS feed page for your Blog (Or Department Blog). This page you will need to update everytime you update your Blog (Or Department Blog).
Create an RSS feed page and a link in your Blog page to your RSS Feed page(to help in organization). This will take you to the rss feed page, the url should look similar to this.
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/(User:[Replace with your User name]) or (Department)/Blog/rss
This effectively adds the RSS feed page as a sub-page to your User Blog Page or Department Blog page.
Edit the page and once again copy and paste the following text.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/skins/common/feed.css"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
<channel>
<title>My Wikiversity Blog</title>
<link>http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/[Replace with your User name]/Blog</link>
<description>(Type your Blog Punch Line)</description>
<language>en</language>
</channel>
</rss>
You have now successfully created an empty RSS Page. Save the page.
Now that you have created the RSS page, you need to know how to add Items onto the RSS Feed that will notify those who have subscribed to your feed of new material posted on your Blog (or Department Blog) page.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/skins/common/feed.css"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
<channel>
<title>My Wikiversity Blog</title>
<link>http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/[Replace with your User name]/Blog</link>
<description>(Type your Blog Punch Line)</description>
<language>en</language>
<item>
<title>My first Blog Post</title>
<link>http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/[Replace with your User name]/Blog#First_Post</link>
<guid>http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/[Replace with your User name]/Blog#First_Post</guid>
<description>Hello World
This is my first blog post about my learning activity on Wikiversity.
</description>
<pubDate>~~~~~</pubDate>
<dc:creator>[Type your name here]</dc:creator>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
Notice that Adding the red highlighted text is actually adding an Item on to your RSS feed (If you are Familiar with XML scripting then you have figured this out by now) and the green Text is the content of your Item, This is what you must edit. It is wise to put a short summary of your blog post (Maybe the first paragraph?) as the body of your time. This way you let your subscribers know of your new post without boring them with details(and maybe incite them to visit your Blog page to read more).
Now that you have created the RSS page and have successfully added your first Post notice item, you need to know how to add The second (and every other consequent) Item onto the RSS Feed that will notify those who have subscribed to your feed of new material posted on your Blog (or Department Blog) page.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/skins/common/feed.css"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
<channel>
<title>My Wikiversity Blog</title>
<link>http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/[Replace with your User name]/Blog</link>
<description>(Type your Blog Punch Line)</description>
<language>en</language>
<item>
<title>My Second Blog Post</title>
<link>http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/[Replace with your User name]/Blog#Second_Post</link>
<guid>http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/[Replace with your User name]/Blog#Second_Post</guid>
<description>Hello again World
This is my second blog post about my learning activity on Wikiversity.
</description>
<pubDate>~~~~~</pubDate>
<dc:creator>[Type your name here]</dc:creator>
</item>
<item>
<title>My first Blog Post</title>
<link>http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/[Replace with your User name]/Blog#First_Post</link>
<guid>http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/[Replace with your User name]/Blog#First_Post</guid>
<description>Hello World
This is my first blog post about my learning activity on Wikiversity.
</description>
<pubDate>~~~~~</pubDate>
<dc:creator>[Type your name here]</dc:creator>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
Notice that Adding the brown highlighted text is actually adding your second Item on to your RSS feed (Ensure to insert a new item above the old item(S)) and the green Text is the content of your Item, This is what you must edit.
To add the next item you need to repeat the foregoing sequence. This way you will have successfully created a RSS feed page that you are able to mantain Manually.
