https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21919
--- Comment #75 from Bawolff <bawolff...@gmail.com> 2011-05-28 23:32:03 UTC --- (In reply to comment #74) > I don't know anything special about the Google News Sitemap format. I was > looking into the Image extensions for Commons. Then I got interested in the > question of why we don't do sitemaps generally. I've collected some info about > that which I can share here, but I think that WikiNews is thinking somewhat > differently about Sitemaps. > > It seems that you're really interested in getting recent items indexed fast, > so > GNSM works (as far as I can tell) more like an RSS feeder -- there's a single > URL you hit to get the latest stuff, and if you miss an hour or two, too bad. > > But for Wikipedia and Commons, we want the entire collection indexed, and > hopefully by more than just Google, and with richer metadata. This is going to > take some kind of incremental approach, long term, although we can do some of > it even with the old batch-oriented sitemap scripts. Yes, quite correct. Normal sitemaps, and "news" sitemaps serve rather different purposes. At this point we just need someone with access to Google Webmaster tools. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
