Extension talk:ManualSitemap

how to set the standard limit to 500 instead of 50?
when i visit the specialpage manualsitemap it creates a sitemap of only 50 pages instead of the 123 i have. Can i change the limit to 500 by default? now google incidently receives only 50 of my urls. See my site map here http://klusopedia.nl/mediawiki-1.15.1/sitemap.xml (based on all urls)


 * try this http://klusopedia.nl/mediawiki-1.15.1/Special:ManualSitemap&limit=500
 * 114.42.95.217 13:36, 25 August 2009 (UTC)coulomb


 * thanks for your comment but i meant that i would like that a sitemap of max 500 (not 50) and priority (cubic or linear, not constant) is created by default in stead of the current default of 50 and constant. Anyone knows how to change that? Thanks!


 * fixed now, all the pages are included.Jehy 23:36, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Really thanks!!
Keep up the hard work!! ;) P.S.: Can I exclude some pages from the sitemap?

Thansk!! :D --151.50.45.168 13:18, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

My pleasure :)
On what base do you want to exclude pages? By category, by title,... or just several pages of the same kind?

By the way - excluding pages from your category will not make search engines not index pages. if you want to avoid indexing - use noindex tags or extesions... I really don't see why you should exclude pages from sitemap :)--Jehy 23:36, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for fixing the GoogleSitemap extension for the current release of MediaWiki (13.2). I have three suggestions for enhancements that would be useful to have:
 * persistent preferences for the options (Sorting, Popularity, Priority), perhaps through LocalSettings
 * a link for generating a sitemap with more than 500 pages, e.g. a Max link, again this could be set in the LocalSettings at a default value of say 500, and then leave it to the user to decide how high to set it. This would avoid the need to edit the value of &limit in the request URL by hand.
 * ping notification result message, and support for submission to other search engines besides Google

Also, a question... I noticed that priority is now only recorded to one decimal place... this has puzzled me for ages, is a higher precision (say 0.333 rather than 0.3) used by any of the search engines.

Quotes 22:05, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Yeah, I would also like to make these, when I have some time... Thank you for suggesting. By they way, you CAN submit notification to other search engines besides Google - especially for it I made $ManualSitemap_Notify an array. You can just set it to smth like

If you write here the URLS for notifying other search engines, I would greatly appreciate it and add them to the extension specification.

Setting options in LocalSettings.php is a great idea, thanks! You don't really want to change sitemap creation options every day :))

Possibly I will bother with it on weekends.

About the precision - can't say something definite. It isn't mentioned in sitemap standard or covered in google topics. Only one thing is for sure - it would do you no harm ;)

Jehy 23:44, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Ping URLs
Quotes 10:58, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml
 * http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml
 * http://webmaster.live.com/ping.aspx?sitemap=http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml
 * http://api.moreover.com/ping?u=http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml
 * http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml

Wow
That's a big list you've got there. I'll probably to make an ajax script for pinging instead of php - or timeout will occure...--Jehy 00:50, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Special Characters
Special Characters in the URL lead to non valid URLs in the Sitemap.xml (i.e. ä,ö,ü) --FlyerWiki 15:13, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Are troublesome special characters in namespace, or page title?Jehy 23:42, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Download Site down
I really want to use this extension on my wikis (hopefully it will work on the non-english ones too), but the download site is down. It looks like it was up two weeks ago, according to comments. Can someone upload a copy to a new source in case the original server doesn't come back?--Webbstre 13:11, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Download site ok
Sorry, my server was resting. It's okay now.

Limit of pages
If I go to /w/index.php?title=Spezial:ManualSitemap&limit=5500&offset=0 it gives me a list of 5000 pages, though I have actually more pages in my Wiki. Is there a special reason why it seems to be limited to 5000 pages? Thanks + cheers, --Till Kraemer 10:34, 5 September 2009 (UTC)


 * I have the same question. How can we sitemap more than 5000? And by the way, thanks for this extension. It's incredibly useful. --Mark 17:21, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Fixed.Jehy 23:38, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Can not exclude URLs with : (colon)
Why can I not exclude URLs with colon? I tried different ways to escape that colon but none worked! Did somebody succeded? Thanks Nick