Dmitriy Sintsov wrote:
> because in MediaWiki it's interchangable with the space character. 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.

It's a necessary evil however, because of a number of servers that serve 
incorrect mime types. IIRC, previously Google didn't index our images at 
all, but later added MediaWiki as an exception.

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