2009/7/20 Dmitriy Sintsov <[email protected]>:
> * David Gerard <[email protected]> [Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:55:28 +0100]:

>> Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. How much hacking would MediaWiki on Wikimedia need
>> for _jpg to be the default image page name and .jpg an alias for
>> backward compatibility? That'd be really helpful in all sorts of ways
>> - on pretty much any website *not* running MediaWiki, something ending
>> ".jpg" is going to be the image, not a text page.

> I am not sure that the underscore is the most suitable character,
> because in MediaWiki it's interchangable with the space character.


Or whatever, as long as it isn't ending .jpg .


> The
> type of the document should be determined by it's mime-type. If Google
> uses the web path "extension" (which is meaningless by the way, because
> that's a virtual path) instead of mime-type to determine whether the
> page should be indexed, that's amazing bug for Google.


Yes, it's an amazing bug for Google. It's also the way they do it.


- d.

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