Comments on: Generating XML Sitemaps for MediaWiki http://www.jeffdarlington.com/2008/08/22/generating-xml-sitemaps-for-mediawiki/ The personal blog of Jeffrey T. Darlington, creator of General Protection Fault Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:07:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jeff http://www.jeffdarlington.com/2008/08/22/generating-xml-sitemaps-for-mediawiki/comment-page-1/#comment-184 Jeff Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:46:36 +0000 http://www.jeffdarlington.com/?p=154#comment-184 Answered my own question... after running the script, it looks like it generates a separate file for each namespace within the wiki. In the case of GPF, this means there's a file for regular pages, a separate one for images, another for categories, others for edited standard pages (sidebar, help, etc.). Redirects are (unfortunately) included; I'd rather leave those out, even though I don't really have that many. If it weren't for the redirects, I <em>could</em> just ignore the files I don't want to include when I generate my own sitemap index file. At this point, though, I'll probably stick with my previous script and run a few additional tests. Answered my own question… after running the script, it looks like it generates a separate file for each namespace within the wiki. In the case of GPF, this means there’s a file for regular pages, a separate one for images, another for categories, others for edited standard pages (sidebar, help, etc.). Redirects are (unfortunately) included; I’d rather leave those out, even though I don’t really have that many. If it weren’t for the redirects, I could just ignore the files I don’t want to include when I generate my own sitemap index file. At this point, though, I’ll probably stick with my previous script and run a few additional tests.

]]> By: Jeff http://www.jeffdarlington.com/2008/08/22/generating-xml-sitemaps-for-mediawiki/comment-page-1/#comment-183 Jeff Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:28:53 +0000 http://www.jeffdarlington.com/?p=154#comment-183 Thanks for the tip, alxndr. I've done very little poking around in the MediaWiki maintenance scripts; to be honest, I find <em>all</em> the MediaWiki documentation to be lacking or confusing, so I never knew this existed. Out of curiosity, do you know if it dumps everything in the wiki database, such as redirects and images, or just regular pages? I've done everything short of looking directly at their code (which I'm doing now) and haven't found anything that indicates one way or the other. I'd rather be selective about what entries get put into the sitemap as the wiki URLs have to be counted along with all the other links on the GPF site. So far it looks like sticking to my custom script will better suit my needs. I'd rather not mess with their code lest I inadvertently screw something up that will make upgrading impossible. Thanks for the tip, alxndr. I’ve done very little poking around in the MediaWiki maintenance scripts; to be honest, I find all the MediaWiki documentation to be lacking or confusing, so I never knew this existed.

Out of curiosity, do you know if it dumps everything in the wiki database, such as redirects and images, or just regular pages? I’ve done everything short of looking directly at their code (which I’m doing now) and haven’t found anything that indicates one way or the other. I’d rather be selective about what entries get put into the sitemap as the wiki URLs have to be counted along with all the other links on the GPF site. So far it looks like sticking to my custom script will better suit my needs. I’d rather not mess with their code lest I inadvertently screw something up that will make upgrading impossible.

]]> By: alxndr http://www.jeffdarlington.com/2008/08/22/generating-xml-sitemaps-for-mediawiki/comment-page-1/#comment-182 alxndr Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:43:25 +0000 http://www.jeffdarlington.com/?p=154#comment-182 Mediawiki has had <a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:GenerateSitemap.php" rel="nofollow">a maintenance script to generate XML sitemaps</a> since 1.6 (and there's <a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Google_Sitemap" rel="nofollow">an extension</a> to get it done on older versions). Mediawiki has had a maintenance script to generate XML sitemaps since 1.6 (and there’s an extension to get it done on older versions).

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