Re: [Wikitech-l] commons.wikimedia.org allowing directory indexes and web robots

2009-07-20 Thread David Gerard
2009/7/20 Dmitriy Sintsov ques...@rambler.ru: * David Gerard dger...@gmail.com [Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:55:28 +0100]: H. 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

Re: [Wikitech-l] commons.wikimedia.org allowing directory indexes and web robots

2009-07-20 Thread Nikola Smolenski
Dmitriy Sintsov wrote: 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

Re: [Wikitech-l] commons.wikimedia.org allowing directory indexes and web robots

2009-07-20 Thread Robert Rohde
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 6:55 AM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/7/18 Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com: On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 6:20 AM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote: It'd actually be better if Google properly indexed text pages whose name ends in .jpg or whatever ... but

Re: [Wikitech-l] commons.wikimedia.org allowing directory indexes and web robots

2009-07-20 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Dmitriy Sintsovques...@rambler.ru wrote: 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

Re: [Wikitech-l] commons.wikimedia.org allowing directory indexes and web robots

2009-07-20 Thread Chad
If making different namespaces per filetype wasn't feasible, what about making [[File:]] better so it automatically returns the best way to use the media--img tag for images, video/audio tags (or fallbacks) as appropriate. That way if a file is changed (ie ogg over png) it still displays properly.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Simple way to convert XML to HTML

2009-07-20 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Chengbin Zhengchengbinzh...@gmail.com wrote: It seems that reply doesn't work. So I'll send a new message. Since the static HTML Wikipedia is not updating (please update), and XML updates like everyday, the logical choice is to go with XML. Is there any way to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Simple way to convert XML to HTML

2009-07-20 Thread Aryeh Gregor
. . . I should mention, also, that I believe the one in charge of dumps is Tomasz Finc. You may want to ask him about whether there are plans to resume the static HTML dumps. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] commons.wikimedia.org allowing directory indexes and web robots

2009-07-20 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Chadinnocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: If making different namespaces per filetype wasn't feasible, what about making [[File:]] better so it automatically returns the best way to use the media--img tag for images, video/audio tags (or fallbacks) as appropriate.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Simple way to convert XML to HTML

2009-07-20 Thread Chengbin Zheng
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.comsimetrical%2bwikil...@gmail.com wrote: . . . I should mention, also, that I believe the one in charge of dumps is Tomasz Finc. You may want to ask him about whether there are plans to resume the static HTML dumps.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Simple way to convert XML to HTML

2009-07-20 Thread Chengbin Zheng
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.comsimetrical%2bwikil...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Chengbin Zhengchengbinzh...@gmail.com wrote: I tried through Wikipedia mail, and I can't reach him. How do you use mediawiki? There are no

Re: [Wikitech-l] Simple way to convert XML to HTML

2009-07-20 Thread Tomasz Finc
Chengbin Zheng wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.comsimetrical%2bwikil...@gmail.com wrote: . . . I should mention, also, that I believe the one in charge of dumps is Tomasz Finc. You may want to ask him about whether there are plans to resume

Re: [Wikitech-l] Simple way to convert XML to HTML

2009-07-20 Thread Chengbin Zheng
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org wrote: Chengbin Zheng wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com simetrical%2bwikil...@gmail.com simetrical%2bwikil...@gmail.com simetrical%252bwikil...@gmail.com wrote: . . . I