A bit of useless knowledge

2023-11-01

123 words, ~1min reading time

Note: This was initially published on Scribbles, my previous "micro blog". I discontinued it and moved the contents into this blog on 2023-12-05.

Are you, like me, interested in learning or reading about something you quite likely never need? And are you also a fan of RSS feeds?

Then you may be happy to learn that there are RSS feeds for Wikipedia's "Today's feature article" and "On this day" (both found on the main page)!

• For "Today's featured article": https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=featuredfeed&feed=featured&feedformat=atom
• For "On this day": https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=featuredfeed&feed=onthisday&feedformat=atom

If you change the subdomain from 'en' to your locale you may also have feeds in your preferred languages (at least for German (de) it works).

Have fun!

P.S.: If you currently have nothing else to do I can recommend reading through the list of common misconceptions