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Important for MediaWiki SEO

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Google_Sitemap/Sources#SpecialGoogleSitemap.php

generateSitemap.php ∞

SSH into your server, and run:

cd maintenance
php generateSitemap.php '''YourSiteName'''

If your URL is http://something.example.com/ then YourSiteName is something.example.com and the commandline would be:

php generateSitemap.php something.example.com

You may also use --path index.php if your site publishes URLs like http://something.example.com/index.php/ArticleName so the commandline would be:

php generateSitemap.php YourSiteName --path index.php

Make sure that the files it generates are moved to your docroot.

Visit https://web.archive.org/*/www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/siteoverview?hl=en and enter http://something.example.com/sitemap-index-mediawiki.xml (whatever your URL is)

Then wait.

• I had to rename index.php to index.php- in order to verify my website. I did that quickly, and then renamed it back.
• I had to manually edit sitemap-index-mediawiki.xml so that its references used my complete URL.

• google sitemap repair 02.sh to rename incorrectly-guessed domain names.