[Mediawiki-l] Re: dmoz pagerank and url rewriting (FxParlant)

[Ralph Kern]

I use FireFox 1.0.7 and the SearchStatus extension. Is that the one you 
are related to?

On my wiki+forum http://alturoforum.gsfnet.de, which is included in some 
new DMOZ category the status line does not correctly indicate the 
category listing. It is not shown on Google PR, but it is shown on the 
Alexa PR box.

Therefore I guess it is not a topic of the wiki software, but of the 
extension and the Google habits of lazy DMOZ updates. It took already 3 
month for the last update of DMOZ to be reflected by Google.

regards Ralph

FxParlant wrote:

>I'm not a specialist, but if you use firefox and a google pagerank
>plugin, you've surely noticed sometimes this little thingy, yellow and
>blue which appears on some websites. I'm told it is meant to say that
>the site was accepted in the DMOZ directory.
>
>I've just noticed that many of mediawiki users are already in the dmoz,
>but the plugin doesn't show it. I guess this is caused by the url
>rewriting habbit in use among the mediawiki community.
>
>1) Am I right about these suppositions ?
>2) Has someone found a way to keep the redirection for the pages, but
>have at least on the welcome page, the dmoz signal?
>
>As a conclusion, I should say it is not a big deal, and google pagerank
>are not so much of an important matter. Nevertheless, if I can make my
>site any better for directories, and engines that's always a good thing.
>
>Thanks for your reactions and I hope, hints.
>
>François
>http://www.fxparlant.net
>
>  
>