That worked perfectly and saved this amateur volunteer admin a lot of time. Thanks so much.
You should have your own holiday. Forest (hope that joke <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Brion_Vibber_Day>doesn't get old) On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]>wrote: > It looks like you have a stray entry in your database labeled as being in > namespace 1000... generateSitemap.php is picking it up because it dumps the > whole database, but since you don't have it defined in the custom > namespaces array, it doesn't show up in your general lists. > > Try running maintenance/cleanupTitles.php to renormalize the > namespace/title pairs in your page table; that should fix up the stray > entry. > > -- brion > > > On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Forest S <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > Our site uses w/maintenance/generateSitemap.php. An error from Google > > Webmaster Tools revealed that generateSitemap is including a sitemap of a > > namespace that doesn't exist. > > > > Specifically, included in the Sitemap > > Index<http://www.tmswiki.org/sitemap/sitemap-index-ptpn_wiki.xml>is a > > sitemap corresponding to namespace 1000: > > http://www.tmswiki.org/sitemap/sitemap-ptpn_wiki-NS_1000-0.xml.gz > > > > However, we don't have a namespace 1000: > > > > > http://www.tmswiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces > > > > The text of the broken sitemap is simply: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > > <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9";> > > <url> > > <loc>http://www.tmswiki.org/ppd/:Guidelines</loc> > > <lastmod>2011-12-12T00:25:28Z</lastmod> > > <priority>0.5</priority> > > </url> > > </urlset> > > > > When Google tries to read http://www.tmswiki.org/ppd/:Guidelines from > the > > above sitemap, it 404s, something I try to avoid, wanting to keep the > ship > > running smoothly. > > > > Any idea how I could figure out what is going on? I went back and checked > > the date stamp on generateSitemap to confirm that I hadn't edited it in a > > fit of stupidity (no). The string 1000 doesn't appear either in > > generateSitemap.php or localsettings.php > > > > Not sure where to go from here. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Forest > > _______________________________________________ > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
