User:NeilK/Sitemaps

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Google Image Search asks about Sitemaps. meeting in march.

Resources

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:GenerateSitemap.php

The manual page indicates these are not compatible with Google as of 1.16, but a patch can fix that. Did this get fixed in 1.17? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual_talk:GenerateSitemap.php#A_BUG_FIX_to_work_the_Google_Webmaster_Tools

There are a number of other tools: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Google_Sitemap (may be obsolete)

This user created another script... it is unclear why he thought it was necessary to write his own, perhaps this works better with multiple sites. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:DaSch/generateSitemap.php

History

Consensus from Brion Vibber, Ariel T. Glenn, etc, is that we used to run Sitemaps but haven't since 2008. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13693 suggests the exact date was 2007-12-27.

Brion believes the standard generateSitemap.php script was the one being used.

It is unclear why we stopped. Brion believes that Jens Frank (JeLuf on IRC) was the one in charge of this. Emailing him to find out.