Lyriki talk:Community Portal

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Comparison

I'm wondering how lyriki differs from lyricwiki.org or vice versa. Is it reasonable to have two similar projects running, is there a cooperation planned?

IRC Channel

I wish a litle more information about lyriki.
I wish information about plugins for thiese wiki, like Lyriki v0.3 for Amarok: Lyriki
thanks

Is there an IRC channel for lyriki somewhere? --Dhraakellian 19:03, 15 May 2006 (PDT)

Found it. irc://irc.freenode.net/lyriki. --Dhraakellian 10:05, 30 September 2006 (PDT)

Search engines

Aren't search engines allowed to crawl this wiki? I queried google and yahoo for some lyrics I posted here 2 months ago and they're still not there! -- Ricardo 04:40, 1 May 2006 (PDT)

We don't even have a robots.txt, so I don't know why Lyriki wouldn't be crawled... --MindlessXD 19:34, 1 May 2006 (PDT)

I think more people just need to blog about and/or mention lyriki. But we don't want it to be in a malicious click-farm/link exchange/spam......I'll go blog about it on a couple sites :) Looking back at google for link:lyriki.com (sites that link to lyriki) most of the mentions are from digg...though there is one link from wordpress and last.fm (the last.fm one is just a simple hyper link). too bad I didn't mention in my earlier post the numbers from link:lyriki.com so we could track the progress...hehe but right now there's 39 linking to lyriki.com, and 47,900 Lyriki pages in Google's Index. --ahoier 06:28, 7 April 2007 (PDT)

Lyriki is very crawled by google, even submit regular sitemaps. I'm not sure about why google results won't always reflect that other then the fact that lyriki doesn't have the highest page-rank. If you'd like to increase Lyriki's page-rank, linking to it from your blog, signature on forums, etc would be helpful. The more places google sees a link to Lyriki the more it'll show results for search terms on Lyriki. It's kind of hard to explain how google works, since they don't publicize much and a good deal of it's speculation. But, I digress, Lyriki is crawled by search engines, there's nothing prohibiting them from crawling. --Nanenj 23:32, 1 May 2006 (PDT)

Maybe it has something to do with how your URLs are contructed. Search engines crawl what they think are dynamically generated pages less since there could be an infinite number. You may have more luck with URLs that look like http://www.lyriki.com/Rush instead of http://www.lyriki.com/index.php?title=Rush See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eliminating_index.php_from_the_url --Pmsyyz 11:57, 6 July 2006 (PDT)

This is done! The above example (and similarly, other URLs as well) should now work for http://www.lyriki.com/wiki/Rush --Evelyn 14:38, 7 July 2006 (PDT)

I'm getting a page not found error for that Rush link. Anyways, yea it does seem Lyriki is getting crawled, though very slowly, check out sites that LINK to lyriki and well, more importantly pages that google sees @ lyriki.com

I had to revert back to the old URL style, because the rewrite rule that made the new URLs work failed on pages that contained the & character. I haven't found a fix for the issue yet. --Evelyn 13:44, 24 July 2006 (PDT)

I wonder how Wikipedia does it. Their method works for &'s. --MindlessXD 18:47, 24 July 2006 (PDT)

Hey, take a look at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Using_a_very_short_URL#The_ampersand_problem. My english is not this good and i don't know well how wikimedia works, so i dont know if it has something to do with our problem, but we can try... --Pedro Fonini 08:16, 25 July 2006 (PDT)