* David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> [Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:55:28 +0100]:
2009/7/18 Robert Rohde <rarohde(a)gmail.com>om>:
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 6:20 AM, David
Gerard<dgerard(a)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