FROM: Mike Hammond
Do you have to put a .htaccess file with just:
RewriteEngine On
to get searche engines to spider the wiki?
Currently searche engines are spidering the html pages but not the wiki database php information!
Best wishes.
Mike
In my experience they do crawl wikis very efficiently. I find MediaWiki in particular to be very well indexed by the search engines; for our wiki in particular both Google and Yahoo indexes the wiki extremely well.
I haven't made the slightest effort on the technical side to make this happen, but I have tried to get our wiki linked to from other sites, although not even to any great length. I guess you just have to spread the word a bit around and make sure your site is linked to from at least a couple of places. If your content is quality content and linked to from quality sites (i.e. getting a good google-rating), it will show up on the search engines in a matter of months.
I have noticed, however, that it seems mostly main namespace content appears in the search engines, I think I have yet to see a discussion page or image page appearing, even if searching for terms very relevant to these kind of pages. Is there a default setting which excludes some namespaces from being indexed?
Best wishes, Morten :-)
-- Crews Cut Production Morten Blaabjerg http://morten.crewscut.com morten@crewscut.com
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike" mike@inter-change.com To: mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2006 8:58 PM Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Search Engines Not Spidering Wiki Sites
FROM: Mike Hammond
Do you have to put a .htaccess file with just:
RewriteEngine On
to get searche engines to spider the wiki?
Currently searche engines are spidering the html pages but not the wiki database php information!
Best wishes.
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