* David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com [Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:55:28 +0100]:
2009/7/18 Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com:
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 6:20 AM, David Gerarddgerard@gmail.com
wrote:
It'd actually be better if Google properly indexed text pages whose name ends in .jpg or whatever ... but they're aware we'd like that,
so
it's up to them.
Which is why my personal wiki is patched to translate the ".jpg"
into
"_jpg", etc. for all references to image description pages.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. How much hacking would MediaWiki on Wikimedia need for _jpg to be the default image page name and .jpg an alias for backward compatibility? That'd be really helpful in all sorts of ways
- on pretty much any website *not* running MediaWiki, something ending
".jpg" is going to be the image, not a text page.
I am not sure that the underscore is the most suitable character, because in MediaWiki it's interchangable with the space character. The type of the document should be determined by it's mime-type. If Google uses the web path "extension" (which is meaningless by the way, because that's a virtual path) instead of mime-type to determine whether the page should be indexed, that's amazing bug for Google. Dmitriy