wiki update

antonvaltaz · 05 March 2010, 23:32

Hey, just a quick update - at RCK's request, I've restructured the entire EAB wiki to make it a bit cleaner and more organised. However lots of pages could still do with being updated - I plan to do as much as I can and Gilgamesh is also doing lots, at the moment focusing on the hardware. But the more the merrier... feel free to update anything you see which needs it or give us your suggestions, and help turn this into a really good resource!

BTW I liked Gilgamesh's idea of renaming the yellow link in the menu bar to Amiga FAQ/Wiki. What does anyone else think?

RCK · 06 March 2010, 00:15

Thanks a lot for all the work done there

The more people edit, the best our Amiga wiki FAQ will be good !

Navigation's bar link renamed.

gilgamesh · 09 March 2010, 10:47

Seems like Google doesn't pick up the wiki sites. That's a big handicap imo. What can we do? Perhaps starting a thread with links to the recently updatet sites?

prowler · 09 March 2010, 11:47

Quote:

Originally Posted by gilgamesh

Seems like Google doesn't pick up the wiki sites. That's a big handicap imo. What can we do?

Try using metatags designed to match the search terms you would expect people to be using in order to find the information on each page.

gilgamesh · 09 March 2010, 11:52

Tags on Wikipages do exist? I'm not sure wether we're talking about the same thing.

prowler · 09 March 2010, 12:04

Quote:

Originally Posted by gilgamesh

Tags on Wikipages do exist? I'm not sure wether we're talking about the same thing.

I am talking about metatags in the HTML code for each page. These are used as a kind of invisible index to help search engines find pages with content matching search terms.

For example, here is some sample code from Phase5's unofficial support pages on a1k.org:
<META
content="a1k.org,phase5,phase 5,support,driver,treiber,download,68060,68040,68030,68020,68010,68000,scsi,cgx,cybergraphics,download" name=Keywords>

This code would normally be placed within the <HEAD> </HEAD> tags.

gilgamesh · 09 March 2010, 12:10

Hey, good point. The tags seem to generated automatically by the wiki software based on the page name, so they are more or less ok. But I found

Code:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" />

TCD · 09 March 2010, 12:12

Which indeed might explain it

Might be a relict to minimise the traffic.

prowler · 09 March 2010, 12:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by gilgamesh

Hey, good point. The tags seem to generated automatically by the wiki software based on the page name, so they are more or less ok. But I found

Code:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" />

That code is to prevent attempts by sites such as The Wayback Machine to salvage and index old versions of pages.

The Nature of Wiki is such that this is neither necessary nor welcomed.

TCD · 09 March 2010, 12:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by prowler

That code is to prevent attempts by sites such as The Wayback Machine to salvage and index old versions of pages.

More important : Google won't index it either (or any other search engine)

prowler · 09 March 2010, 12:38

Hmm... Thanks, TCD. We've found the root of the problem!

05 March 2010, 23:32	#1
antonvaltaz Registered User Join Date: May 2009 Location: Oxford, UK Age: 42 Posts: 511	wiki update Hey, just a quick update - at RCK's request, I've restructured the entire EAB wiki to make it a bit cleaner and more organised. However lots of pages could still do with being updated - I plan to do as much as I can and Gilgamesh is also doing lots, at the moment focusing on the hardware. But the more the merrier... feel free to update anything you see which needs it or give us your suggestions, and help turn this into a really good resource! BTW I liked Gilgamesh's idea of renaming the yellow link in the menu bar to Amiga FAQ/Wiki. What does anyone else think?

09 March 2010, 12:10	#7
gilgamesh Linux snob Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Monkey Island Posts: 997	Hey, good point. The tags seem to generated automatically by the wiki software based on the page name, so they are more or less ok. But I found Code: <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" />

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06 March 2010, 00:15	#2
RCK Administrator Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Paris / France Age: 44 Posts: 3,017	Thanks a lot for all the work done there The more people edit, the best our Amiga wiki FAQ will be good ! Navigation's bar link renamed.

09 March 2010, 10:47	#3
gilgamesh Linux snob Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Monkey Island Posts: 997	Seems like Google doesn't pick up the wiki sites. That's a big handicap imo. What can we do? Perhaps starting a thread with links to the recently updatet sites?

09 March 2010, 11:52	#5
gilgamesh Linux snob Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Monkey Island Posts: 997	Tags on Wikipages do exist? I'm not sure wether we're talking about the same thing.

09 March 2010, 12:12	#8
TCD HOL/FTP busy bee Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Germany Age: 45 Posts: 28,144	Which indeed might explain it Might be a relict to minimise the traffic.

09 March 2010, 12:38	#11
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