On Thursday 21 October 2004 20:53, Taneem A T wrote: http://www.google.com/addurl.html -- NSK Admin of http://portal.wikinerds.org Project Manager of http://www.nerdypc.org Project Manager of http://www.adapedia.org Project Manager of http://maatworks.wikinerds.org

So you're asking whether there is any way to get MediaWiki to generate HTML meta tags (with appropriate content parameters). I don't know the answer, it just seemed to me that that's your question (right?). I'm just saying. On 22 Oct 2004, at 04:08, Taneem A T wrote:

Thanks for the feedback guys - I don't know a whole lot about the topic, but perhaps because the content on the wiki is stored in the database and there no static html pages, so unless you get the wiki to recognize search bots and serve content nothing will get indexed? Wikipedia and other wikis show up on google all the time. Maybe I just need to give my wiki a bit more time :) Taneem Talukdar http://www.dheo.com/ On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 23:38:13 -0400, Evan Prodromou <evan(a)wikitravel.org> wrote:

Am Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:08:47 -0600 hat Taneem A T &lt;thezeropoint(a)gmail.com&gt; geschrieben: OH, getting indexed may take as long as 3 months. But when tey finally index you won't be able to get rid of them anymore either :-) You need to make shure that as many sites as possible, other search engines too of course, got a link to your wiki. The more you have the sooner google will find you anyway. Whether you like it or not :-) --tic -- +--------------------------+ tic(a)tictric.net | ,__o | _-\_<, | (*)/'(*)

On Oct 23, 2004, at 1:09 PM, Jamie Bliss wrote: Anecdote: in early 2003 much of Wikipedia dropped off of Google for about a month due to a missing "/" in our robots.txt file. Make sure you're not accidentally blocking access to the wiki. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

On Oct 22, 2004, at 1:08 AM, Eric JESOVER wrote: Are you running on IIS? Occasionally it doesn't do things the way Apache does, apparently it doesn't set that variable. It's a debug statement anyway, just put a '#' at the beginning to comment it out or just remove it. I tried installing a fresh 1.2.6 wiki and upgrading it to 1.3.7, and can't reproduce the problem. (PHP 4.3.8, MySQL 4.0.20, running with Apache on Mac OS X.) The user table was updated to include the user_real_name field, so it ought to be ok. If somehow that and that alone has been skipped over, you might try manually upgrading the table; take the query from maintenance/archive/patch-user-realname.sql and feed it into MySQL: -- Add a 'real name' field where users can specify the name they want -- used for author attribution or other places that real names matter. ALTER TABLE user ADD (user_real_name varchar(255) binary NOT NULL default ''); The output from config/index.php during the upgrade looked like this: MediaWiki 1.3.7 installation Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems. Checking environment... • PHP 4.3.8: ok • Warning: PHP's register_globals option is enabled. MediaWiki will work correctly, but this setting increases your exposure to potential security vulnerabilities in PHP-based software running on your server. You should disable it if you are able. • PHP server API is apache; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) • Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. • PHP's memory_limit is 8M. If this is too low, installation may fail! Attempting to raise limit to 20M... ok. • Have zlib support; enabling output compression. • Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. • Installation directory: /Users/brion/Sites/mediawiki-1.3.7 • Script URI path: /~brion/mediawiki-1.3.7 • Connected as root (automatic) • Connected to database... 4.0.20-standard; enabling MySQL 4 enhancements • Database testyfun exists • There are already MediaWiki tables in this database. Checking if updates are needed... ...ipblocks is up to date. ...already have interwiki table ...indexes seem up to 20031107 standards ...have linkscc table. ...linkscc is up to date, or does not exist. Good. ...have hitcounter table. Adding rc_ip...ok Converting links table to ID-ID... Updating schema (no rows to convert)... Dropping temporary links table if it exists... done. Creating temporary links table... done. Dropping backup links table if it exists... done. Swapping tables 'links' to 'links_backup'; 'links_temp' to 'links'... done. Conversion complete. The old table remains at links_backup; delete at your leisure. Adding user_real_name field to table user...ok Adding querycache table for slow special pages... ok Adding objectcache table for message caching... ok Adding categorylinks table for category management... ok Creating redirects Gnunote...redirected All_messages...redirected Moving pages... Gnunote...moved All_messages...moved Converting text... Initialising "MediaWiki" namespace... Clearing message cache...Done. • Finished update checks. Creating LocalSettings.php... Success! Move the LocalSettings.php file into the parent directory, then follow this link to your wiki. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)