Show HN: Get a daily email of Wikipedia's “Current Events”

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The RSS/ATOM syndication was created for this purpose. No need to collect email addresses.

Point your favorite RSS/ATOM reader to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events and it'll pick up the feed. Done.

Or, if you prefer, setup the feed manually: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentCha...

Yes that’s true, I just don’t use RSS. This was just a 2 hour task, pulling from the HTML Wikipedia rest API and putting it in an email template.

For RSS users you’re right - better to just consume the feed

Hey HN, I made this to so that I could keep up to day with the news and current events without any of the sensationalism of news sites.

Wikipedia has a Current Events Portal - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events - which lists all the key events going on in the world each day. This email simply pulls the content from wikipedia and I email it each day.

I don't modify the content at all.

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