Bluegrass Podcast Firehose
Latest across every show
Adding a show
Create a page for it in Category:Podcasts with a {{Podcast}} infobox carrying its rss= URL. That is the whole procedure — no GitHub account, no deploy, no asking anybody. The feed picks it up on its next rebuild, six-hourly.
If the feed's episode titles name guests in a consistent way, add a guest-patterns block to the same page and those names start becoming links. Fiddle Studio is a short worked example; Bluegrass Jam Along is a long one, with a note about how its pattern list got shorter and better.
Using it elsewhere on the wiki
Template:Firehose embeds a list anywhere:[unverified]
{{Firehose|limit=12}} the whole scene
{{Firehose|show=Grass Talk Radio}} one show's episodes
{{Firehose|topic={{PAGENAME}}}} every episode about this page's subject
How it is built
Six-hourly, a script on the pickipedia server reads the thirteen feeds, merges them by date, and writes the XML. Every show gets a turn before any show gets a second one; sorting purely by date crowds out the slower release cycles too much.
Nightly, a second pass parses guest names out of episode titles and writes an episode page for each, as User:HearThatWhistleBlow. That account is a PickiPedia:Artificial Dumb bot; the names it extracts are pattern matches and sometimes wrong. You can make fixes manually.
- Source is here: [1] under
tools/.
