Editing Google Sitemaps for MediaWiki

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"The Sitemap Protocol allows you to inform search engines about URLs on your websites that are available for crawling." (Quoted from [https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/protocol.html Google Sitemap Protocol]) [http://www.thinklemon.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Google_Sitemaps Google Sitemaps for MediaWiki] list all URLs of wiki pages for crawling, 

{{Wiki version| wiki_engine=MediaWiki | version=1.4, 1.11.0 }}


== Installation ==
* Upload the [http://www.thinklemon.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Google_Sitemaps Google Sitemaps] v0.3 script to the same folder where LocalSettings.php located.
* Add the Sitemap to [https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/siteoverview Google webmasters tool] or [https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/mysites Yahoo! Site Explorer]. ([[Promote your websites]]...)


== Troubleshooting: URL are the same http://wiki.example.com/  ==
URLs of wiki page <loc> at Sitemap file are the same URL: http://wiki.example.com/ not the correct URL of each wiki page: http://wiki.example.com/index.php/Page_Name

The correct Sitemap may appeared as follows ([https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/protocol.html Sitemap Protocol]):
<pre>   < url>
    < loc>http://wiki.example.com/index.php/Page_Name</loc>
    < lastmod>2005-01-01</lastmod>
    < changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    < priority>1</priority>
   </url>  </pre>

I modified the partial code as follows:
=== original code ===
<pre>
# -----------------------------------------------------
# Start output
# -----------------------------------------------------

?>
	<url>
		<loc><?php echo fnXmlEncode( "http://" . $wgServerName . eregi_replace('\$1',$sPageName,$wgArticlePath) ) ?></loc>
		<lastmod><?php echo fnTimestampToIso($row_rsPages['page_touched']); ?></lastmod>
		<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
		<priority><?php echo $nPriority ?></priority>
	</url>
<?php } while ($row_rsPages = mysql_fetch_assoc($rsPages)); ?>
</urlset> </pre>


=== modified code ===
<pre>
# -----------------------------------------------------
# Start output
# -----------------------------------------------------

?>
	<url>
		<loc><?php echo fnXmlEncode( "http://" . $wgServerName ) ?>/index.php/<?php echo fnXmlEncode( $sPageName ) ?></loc>
		<lastmod><?php echo fnTimestampToIso($row_rsPages['page_touched']); ?></lastmod>
		<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
		<priority><?php echo $nPriority ?></priority>
	</url>
<?php } while ($row_rsPages = mysql_fetch_assoc($rsPages)); ?>
</urlset></pre>



Further reading
* [http://www.chieftain.idv.tw/archives/2008/01/21/1334.html Reflection » Blog Archive » Mediawiki 的 Google Sitemaps 製作] (last visited: 2008-02-10)


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