https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21919

--- Comment #74 from Neil Kandalgaonkar <[email protected]> 2011-05-28 
17:01:16 UTC ---
I don't know anything special about the Google News Sitemap format. I was
looking into the Image extensions for Commons. Then I got interested in the
question of why we don't do sitemaps generally. I've collected some info about
that which I can share here, but I think that WikiNews is thinking somewhat
differently about Sitemaps.

It seems that you're really interested in getting recent items indexed fast, so
GNSM works (as far as I can tell) more like an RSS feeder -- there's a single
URL you hit to get the latest stuff, and if you miss an hour or two, too bad.

But for Wikipedia and Commons, we want the entire collection indexed, and
hopefully by more than just Google, and with richer metadata. This is going to
take some kind of incremental approach, long term, although we can do some of
it even with the old batch-oriented sitemap scripts.

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