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Here's a scary idea.. A plugin that can aggregate feeds from other locations. Presumably there would need to be a cron job to build the wiki periodically, and each time it's built any new items would be turned into pages etc. There might also need to be a way to expire old items, unless you wanted to keep them forever.

This would allow ikiwiki to work as a kind of a planet, or at least a poor-man's news aggregator.

  • XML::Feed has a very nice interface, may require valid feeds though.
  • How to store GUIDs? Maybe as meta tags on pages, although that would need caching of such metadata somewhere.
  • How to configure which feeds to pull, how often, and where to put the pulled entries? One way would be command line/config file, but I think better would be to use preprocessor directives in a wiki page, probably the same page that inlines all the pages together.
  • Where to store when a feed was last pulled?