People on the German wikipedia noticed that a mirror site of the German wikipedia (wikipedia.t-st.de) has higher Google ratings than the "real" one, which was attributed to their use of <meta keywords=""> tags. (Supposedly, Google doesn't care about meta tags, but what do I know?)
I vaguely remember that (at least in Phase II) there were meta-keywords, generated from the title of the article and all wiki-links. Also, it had a meta "summary" tag from what the software thought was the first paragraph of the article.
Could we turn that on again? Might cost some bandwidth, but if it really gets us higher ratings, we should do this. Maybe for anonymous views only, since logged-in users probably don't care for meta tags...
Magnus
At 13:45 22/12/2003 +0100, you wrote:
People on the German wikipedia noticed that a mirror site of the German wikipedia (wikipedia.t-st.de)
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has higher Google ratings than the "real" one, which was attributed to their use of <meta keywords=""> tags. (Supposedly, Google doesn't care about meta tags, but what do I know?)
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I vaguely remember that (at least in Phase II) there were meta-keywords, generated from the title of the article and all wiki-links. Also, it had a meta "summary" tag from what the software thought was the first paragraph of the article.
Could we turn that on again? Might cost some bandwidth, but if it really gets us higher ratings, we should do this. Maybe for anonymous views only, since logged-in users probably don't care for meta tags...
Magnus
Although google rating is meant to be link based it may be taking the link qty to be spamming and demoting the main wiki see spider food www.spider-food.net. I know this happens with other search engines.
Dave Caroline
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Hi all, Can we use the current article name in a MediaWiki page ? I'd like to be able to create a link like [[talk:<page_name>|talk page]].
Aoineko
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