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

2009-07-27 Thread Mark Clements (HappyDog)
Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com wrote in message news:b4da1c6e0907200746v26a1b024naeb43c2228b80...@mail.gmail.com... On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 6:55 AM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote: H. How much hacking would MediaWiki on Wikimedia need for _jpg to be the default image page

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

2009-07-27 Thread Mark Clements (HappyDog)
Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org wrote in message news:4a6dc653.9010...@wikimedia.org... On 7/27/09 6:05 AM, Mark Clements (HappyDog) wrote: As long as one requires files have explicit type suffixes (e.g. .jpg, .svg, etc), one can use the allowed list to determine what file names to translate

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

2009-07-27 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Mark Clements (HappyDog)gm...@kennel17.co.uk wrote: There is a separate issue of whether this information should be removed altogether, which in theory is a good idea, but leads to a practical problem of naming conflicts which has not yet been addressed to my

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

2009-07-27 Thread Robert Rohde
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Aryeh Gregorsimetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Mark Clements (HappyDog)gm...@kennel17.co.uk wrote: There is a separate issue of whether this information should be removed altogether, which in theory is a good idea, but leads

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

2009-07-27 Thread Robert Rohde
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Aryeh Gregorsimetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Robert Rohderaro...@gmail.com wrote: Forgive me, but that seems like you'd be asking the community to do a huge amount of work (moving images and updating [[File:]] calls) in

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

2009-07-27 Thread Brion Vibber
On 7/27/09 10:03 AM, Robert Rohde wrote: Forgive me, but that seems like you'd be asking the community to do a huge amount of work (moving images and updating [[File:]] calls) in order to address a problem that could be solved on purely technical grounds. There's no technical need to change

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

2009-07-27 Thread Brion Vibber
On 7/27/09 11:37 AM, Robert Rohde wrote: Google indexes the WMF this way. ***They do not index third party Mediawiki sites this way.*** [snip] So congratulations Google treats the WMF special, but the rest of the Mediawiki user base, myself included, still have a problem that we would like

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

2009-07-27 Thread Brion Vibber
On 7/27/09 10:39 AM, Robert Rohde wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Aryeh Gregorsimetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Robert Rohderaro...@gmail.com wrote: Forgive me, but that seems like you'd be asking the community to do a huge amount of work (moving

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

2009-07-27 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Robert Rohderaro...@gmail.com wrote: Last I checked image moves weren't actually working and I thought image redirects were disabled as well, though I could be mistaken. Those are technical issues that it would be good to solve for their own reasons though.