User:Pathoschild/Wikia RC feed

This page documents a proposed format for the Wikia RC feed. It is intended to be very easily bot-readable, while sacrificing human readability on the assumption that nobody will use the unfiltered combined feed directly.

Every datum is separated by formatting codes (shown on this page in \x## notation); this provides a convenient match for bot delimiting, and could conceivably be used to improve human-readability. (This pages uses "normal", which is not visible to humans.) For example, in Perl:

@data = split(/\s*\|�[0-9a-f]{2}/, $rcMessage);

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Bot-visible
|\x0fevent=edit|\x0fdomain=en.wikipedia |\x0fpage=Thomas Daniel Winter |\x0feditor=TubularWorld |\x0fflags=m |\x0fbytechange=+4 |\x0fdiffid=199949258 |\x0fsummary=Standardized reference section


Human-visible
|event=edit |domain=en.wikipedia |page=Thomas Daniel Winter |editor=TubularWorld |flags=m |bytechange=+4 |diffid=199949258 |summary=Standardized reference section

Bot-visible	\|`\x0f`event=edit\|`\x0f`domain=en.wikipedia \|`\x0f`page=Thomas Daniel Winter \|`\x0f`editor=TubularWorld \|`\x0f`flags=m \|`\x0f`bytechange=+4 \|`\x0f`diffid=199949258 \|`\x0f`summary=Standardized reference section
Human-visible	\|event=edit \|domain=en.wikipedia \|page=Thomas Daniel Winter \|editor=TubularWorld \|flags=m \|bytechange=+4 \|diffid=199949258 \|summary=Standardized reference section