John Q. wrote:
> * Page structure - Mediawiki already does a very good job of making
> sure page titles, section headers, etc, have the proper encoding
> such that the search engines pick up key items on the page. We
> want to see if there is anything that we can add to that.
Something could conceivably be done about the problem noted here:
doom.wikia.com/wiki/Doom_Wiki:Central_Processing/2006#HTML_source
By this logic, the word "backpack" or "armor" might be chosen for any article
about a map (somewhere between 15,000 and 200,000 pages, potentially), without
being a good keyword for any of them, in a sense that it never relates to a
principal or distinguishing feature. I can imagine this happening on a lot of
gaming wikis, because video games tend to assign specialized meanings to
existing dictionary words (weaponry, geographic features, magic spells, etc).
Unfortunately I haven't thought of an alternative that wouldn't be hellaciously
database-intensive, like screening recently edited articles for proper nouns
every 24 hours, or only indexing repeatedly used phrases of two or more words.
Can any of our more experienced readers suggest one?
--- "Ryan W"
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