... How will this affect you're search engine rankings? And you'd
have to modify them ALL, every single one - if you missed one, it
would break major things, would it not? The whole linking scheme,
really.
I'd say 100+. I could be wrong, but in my experience hacking
mediawiki, everything is so tightly interwoven that changing even a
small tiny thing that you think would only appear once, actually
appears in 10 different places. Making this a variable in some ways
wouldn't be a bad idea, but in others, it wouldn't work - what about
interwiki linking? Templates? using dots in titles that are NOT spaces?
But again, how would this help with google?
On May 13, 2006, at 1:19 PM, Seun Osewa wrote:
Well,
I'm launching a new site that I'll be developing for years or more,
and I feel that if this project that'll take maybe a few hours in a
weekend will affect my search engine rankings by even just 5%, it's
worth getting it over with right now.
If the community will help me, then instead of just changing the
underscores to dots i might even be able to create a patch which makes
it possible for people to use any character as the separator
character.
How many places do you think I'll need to modify? 5? 10? 20? 50?
Seun.
http://www.nairaland.com/
On 5/13/06, Elliott F. Cable <ecable(a)avxw.com> wrote:
You'd have to look through most of the source
code for mediawiki,
methinks. Big project. WHy, if I may ask?
On May 13, 2006, at 1:09 PM, Seun Osewa wrote:
Hello,
I would like to change the separator character on my mediawiki
installation from the current underscore format to dot format.
I have read a previous exchange in which it was noted that the
underscore is hard-coded into mediawiki in many places, but i
feel it
would be worth the effort.
What are the places/files/directories where I should start
looking? Thanks!
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