Extension talk:ManualSitemap

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)
 * Sorry, my server was resting. It's okay now.Jehy 06:28, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

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)
 * I'm gonna check it out. Thanks! --Mark 20:19, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Nice...it still includes discussion pages, but I guessthat was your intention. I just sent the whole thing to Google. --Mark 04:36, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok, now you can remove discussion pages from sitemap, please see new options. Jehy 06:28, 8 December 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