Help:RSS feed

The RSS2Wiki extension allows you to add feeds from any site onto a Memory Alpha page. This could be used for, to show entries from a related , or to show recent changes from a related wiki.

Adding an RSS feed
The basic code to add an RSS feed to a page is:

URL goes here

Variables
There are a number of variables you can add after the URL for the RSS feed. Each is separated by a pipe character ("|") (as in links and templates). The available parameters:


 * charset=: The character set used by the feed.  For example, you may need to use  to view some characters.
 * short: Do not show the description text for each news item.
 * date: Shows the date/time stamp for each news item.
 * max=: Allows you to choose how many items to show.
 * highlight=term1 term2: The terms added here (each separated by a space) are highlighted.
 * filter=term1 term2: Only RSS items containing at least one of the listed terms are shown.
 * filterout=term1 term2: No RSS items containing the listed terms are shown.
 * reverse:  The RSS items are displayed in reverse order

So, for example, to add some Star Trek news to an article, you might use:

http://trekmovie.com/feed/|max=5|charset=UTF-8

This would result in:

http://trekmovie.com/feed/|max=5|charset=UTF-8