<slashdot> Variant A: 1. Someone finds commons 2. For some reason, (s)he hates^W is unsatisfied with our search engine(s) 3. (S)he tries google image search for commons.wikimedia.org, as that is the URL (s)he knows 4. 37 images found - no profit, user goes away

Variant B: 1. Someone finds commons 2. For some reason, (s)he hates^W is unsatisfied with our search engine(s) 3. (S)he tries google image search for commons.wikimedia.org, as that is the URL (s)he knows 4. 1.5 million images found - still no profit, but likely another commons-addict </slashdot>

Oh, there is a link to "google-search all wikipedias" on our search page. Let's see... 1970 images found. All on sites that have nothing to do with wiki(m|p)edia. Much better already.

See what I'm getting at here?

Magnus

On 5/18/07, Husky huskyr@gmail.com wrote:

You probably know that already, but you can search for more images (around 1,5 million indexed right now) by using upload.wikimedia.org instead of commons.wikimedia.org:

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&q=site%3Aupload.wikim...

Unfortunately this also includes the fair use uploads.

-- Hay Kranen / [[User:Husky]]

On 5/17/07, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:

...

http://images.google.com/images?q=site%3Acommons.wikimedia.org&btnG=Sear...

37 results, all from other sites that show commons images directly from our server :-(

If google is really incapable of indexing pages that don't end on ".html", maybe we should set the apaches so they'll serve the content of

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Stanley_pontlarge_church.JPG

under

http://commons.wikimedia.org/stupid_search_engines/Image:Stanley_pontlarge_c...

as well...

Magnus

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