The used service no longer existed. While the pointers listed e.g. at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Press_releases/Picture_of_the_Day_RSS
are outdated, and any currently existing RSS feeds would need complicated parsing of
unspecified feed content (so prone to change and fail) I found a nice though seemingly
proper hack in the code of https://github.com/simison/WikimediaCommonsPotd to first
get the filename of the current potd by using the Web API to have the wiki macro
"{{Potd}}" be resolved and then get it fetched by Wikimedia Commons'
Redirect/file tool.
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Details
Select wallpaper "Picture of the Day", select as provider "Wikimedia Picture
of the Day", click Apply and see a picture fetched, matching the one listed
as picture of the day on the wikimedia website like
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_day
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Can confirm that it works again, yay! +1 for that. Is there really no longer a working feed or some sort for this?
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Thanks for testing.
Is there really no longer a working feed or some sort for this?
None that I had found at least. Those documented at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Feeds#Picture_of_the_Day have content which is not really straightforward and reliable to use for our very purpose to just get the download link for the very image of "today". Updated the commit message to make that more clear.