[Wikimedia-l] Public Google Calendar for IRC office hours

[Michael Peel]

Ah, fun. I see this is a known problem that Tom Morris pointed out last year:
http://microformats.org/wiki/h2vx#robots.txt_prevents_subscription_in_Google_Reader

Quite why Google Calendar is misusing robots.txt like this, I don't know... (it's natural to use robots.txt to keep pages from appearing in the google search index, but that shouldn't then also apply in this sort of situation.)

I'll see if I can figure out a work-around for subscribing to the calendar, but it'll take me a day or so. In the meantime, you can always download the calendar file and import it into Google Calendar...

Thanks,
Mike

On 5 May 2012, at 20:38, Don Burke wrote:

> I cannot subscribe in Google Calendar because it says robots.txt does not
> allow crawling.
> 
> Don
> 
> On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Michael Peel
> <michael.peel at wikimedia.org.uk>wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I've incorporated the hcalendar microformat into the office hours
>> template, and http://h2vx.com/ics/ provides an open source solution
>> (based on http://microformats.org/wiki/x2v) for converting hcalendar
>> microformats into iCal files.
>> 
>> You can download the ical from:
>> http://h2vx.com/ics/https%3A//meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
>> or subscribe to it at:
>> webcal://h2vx.com/ics/https%3A//meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
>> 
>> All open source, no duplication of data or increased maintenance costs.
>> The only downside is that the template call is a bit more complex now,
>> particularly because an end time needed to be specified.
>> 
>> Please let me know if anyone encounters any problems with this solution...
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Mike
>> 
>> 
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