On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 6:55 AM, David Gerard<[email protected]> wrote:
> 2009/7/18 Robert Rohde <[email protected]>:
>> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 6:20 AM, David Gerard<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>> It'd actually be better if Google properly indexed text pages whose
>>> name ends in .jpg or whatever ... but they're aware we'd like that, so
>>> it's up to them.
>
>> Which is why my personal wiki is patched to translate the ".jpg" into
>> "_jpg", etc. for all references to image description pages.
>
>
> 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've created bug:19874 for this enhancement request.  As it is of
personal utility to me, I may also work on writing a patch, though
probably not in the near term.

-Robert Rohde

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