[Wikipedia-l] Making Wikipedia more Google friendly

Axel Boldt axel at uni-paderborn.de
Tue Aug 14 12:59:17 UTC 2001


When you do a search on Wikipedia or click on a link, the returned
URL looks like http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?Poker
If somebody likes this page and links to it, then in principle that
should increase our standing with Google. But Google doesn't like CGI
links. It would be better if the wiki script always returned links of
the form http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Poker (actually, I would have
prefered http://www.wikipedia.com/Poker, but that's too late now).

Is the source code of our wiki perl script available somewhere?

Axel



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