PubSubHubbub

Motivation

The current method of retrieving updates involves the MediaWiki extension OAIRepository and the OAI-PMH protocol. Since the deployment of the extension is supposed to be phased out soon, we need a replacement. Our idea is to use PubSubHubbub instead, which uses a pushing mechanism, instead of requiring subscribers to use polling.

Links

• Reference project of PubSubHubbub
• Protocol specs
• Hub implementations

Implementation

• MediaWiki extension
• Publishes arbitrary changes to a predefined "Hub"