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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
