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Show HN: Get a daily email of Wikipedia's “Current Events”

• kiwicopple 7y ago
  Hey HN, I made this to so that I could keep up to day with the news and current events without any of the sensationalism of news sites. Wikipedia has a Current Events Portal - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events - which lists all the key events going on in the world each day. This email simply pulls the content from wikipedia and I email it each day. I don't modify the content at all.
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• Nicksil 7y ago
  The RSS/ATOM syndication was created for this purpose. No need to collect email addresses. Point your favorite RSS/ATOM reader to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events and it'll pick up the feed. Done. Or, if you prefer, setup the feed manually: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&feed=atom https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentCha...
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  • kiwicopple 7y ago
    Yes that’s true, I just don’t use RSS. This was just a 2 hour task, pulling from the HTML Wikipedia rest API and putting it in an email template. For RSS users you’re right - better to just consume the feed