I have RSS feed 2.25.0 installed, with a MediaWiki 1.23.5.
I am trying to get images to be shown in RSS feeds that I have added to a Wiki and I have not figured it out.
So lets say I create a Wiki page for an organisation that also has a Facebook page.
Lets say Wikipedia has a Facebook page.
Through findmyfacebookid.com I find out that Wikipedia's Facebook ID is 33138223345.
I can add that number to the back of https://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?format=rss20&id='' to get https://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?format=rss20&id=33138223345 which is the RSS feed of Wikipedia on Facebook.
so far so good,
now I go back to my wiki and add that feed between <rss>-tags, so it shows as such
<rss max="16">https://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?format=rss20&id=33138223345</rss>
and it looks pretty good, except when there are images included in the RSS feed posts, they are not shown, just a html code is shown
e.g. this image
of Armenia's Wiki Camp shows up like this in the feed section of my wiki:
<img class="img" src="https://fbexternal-a.akamaihd.net/safe_image.php?d=AQAbFMb77DTthF-D&w=158&h=158&url=https%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2Fe%2Fe9%2FWiki_camp_Armenia_2014_flash_mob.png%2F580px-Wiki_camp_Armenia_2014_flash_mob.png" alt="" />
well that is not that sexy, I want some feeds with images as eye candy, they get more clicks/attention/love.
- So I figure, I need to go into RSS.php file and set the parameter $wgRSSAllowLinkTag = true; and $wgRSSAllowImageTag = true; it still doesn't work
- maybe my wiki doesn't allow external images? so I follow the Manual:$wgAllowExternalImages instructions and add that with $wgAllowExternalImages = true; it still doesn't work
- The code itself is html, I check if it would work to just add
<html>-tags around the <rss>-tags, doesn't work
- I copy the code out of the feed and add tags below separately
<html> <img class="img" src="https://fbexternal-a.akamaihd.net/safe_image.php?d=AQAbFMb77DTthF-D&w=158&h=158&url=https%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2Fe%2Fe9%2FWiki_camp_Armenia_2014_flash_mob.png%2F580px-Wiki_camp_Armenia_2014_flash_mob.png" alt="" /> </html>
which renders the image after I set $wgRawHtml=true; see Manual:$wgRawHtml that works, but doesn't help me
- what if I set the Manual:$wgAllowImageTag to $wgAllowImageTag=true;, now I don't need to set
<html>-tags around <img>-tags and the images are shown but not in the rss feeds. doesn't work
- What if I can add
<html>-tags into the subelements of the template for the extension, directly into MediaWiki:Rss-item? The description is where the image are that I pulled from Facebook, so if I add <html>-tags around that parameter? {{$1 | title = {{{title}}} | link = {{{link}}} | date = {{{date}}} | author = {{{author}}} | description = <html>{{{description}}}</html> }} doesn't work. Maybe around the whole template? <html>{{$1 | title = {{{title}}} | link = {{{link}}} | date = {{{date}}} | author = {{{author}}} | description = {{{description}}} }}</html> doesn't work.
- Then I read through this Thread:Project:Support_desk/template_variables_within_html_tags. So you need to add
{{#tag:html| }} around the parameters. {{$1 | title = {{{title}}} | link = {{{link}}} | date = {{{date}}} | author = {{{author}}} | description = {{#tag:html| {{{description}}} }} }} doesn't work. Maybe like this? {{$1 | title = {{{title}}} | link = {{{link}}} | date = {{{date}}} | author = {{{author}}} | {{#tag:html| description = {{{description}}} }} }} doesn't work. Around the whole thing? {{#tag:html| {{$1 | title = {{{title}}} | link = {{{link}}} | date = {{{date}}} | author = {{{author}}} | description = {{{description}}} }} }} doesn't work.
- Am I changing the wrong template? Maybe the MediaWiki:Rss-feed instead? there I change the source to
; '''<span class='plainlinks'>[{{{link}}} {{{title}}}]</span>''' : {{#tag:html| {{{description}}} }} : {{{author}}} {{{date}}} doesn't work. Different ; {{#tag:html| '''<span class='plainlinks'>[{{{link}}} {{{title}}}]</span>''' : {{{description}}} : {{{author}}} {{{date}}} }} doesn't work.
I don't know what else I could do? Maybe take earlier version of the extension?
If anyone could help me here I would be grateful.
here a thread on phabricator with the same issue
Sanitizer fails to include image tags if incorrectly written as closed/void tags
-LumberJack
