On 4 March 2011, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote: > Google has introduced some nifty extensions to the Sitemap protocol, > including geocoding and (especially dear to our hearts) licensing![2] > However we don't have such information easily available in the > database, > so this requires parsing through every File page, which will take > several millenia. > > This will not work at all with the current sitemaps script as it scans > the entire database every time and regenerates a number of sitemaps > files from scratch. So, what we need is something more iterative, that > only scans recent stuff. (Or, using such extensions will have to wait > until someone brings licensing into the database). ... > > -- > Neil Kandalgaonkar <ne...@wikimedia.org>
Bryan, Roan and me are working on this: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/License_integration Right now we're mostly brainstorming for the best way to do this, we expect to plan real development within 2011 but it will most certainly take a while before it's done and stable, working, backwards complatible, proper usability, code reviewed and live on Commons. -- Krinkle _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l