About
Search Wellington is Wellington's own regional web directory.
The Wellington Newslog draws in notices and newsitems published by local organisations. The resulting content isn't going to be what you'll find in a newspaper but we think that's half the attraction.
The Newslog appears daily on the front page of Search Wellington and is also available as an RSS feed.
I do not want my content indexed
Search Wellington honours the robots exclusion standard. Organisations can indiciate in their robots.txt that Search Wellington should not index their content.
The following lines in your robots.txt file will result in your content been removed from the index:
User-agent: searchwellington
Disallow: *
Contact
Search Wellington is edited from the frozen waste lands of Twickenham, London by an expatriate Wellingtonian. New site submissions are always welcomed.
Any enquires should be directed to enquires (at) wellington.gen.nz
Nikau Palms
Right - One of the copper clad Nikau palm trees which dot the Civic Square and line the exterior of the Central Library building.
Valued at $25,000 NZ each, these additions to the Square were suggested by the architect Ian Athfield as a way of making the area more inviting. The Nikaus have become somewhat of an icon for Wellington City.
The Nikau, is a distinctive New Zealand native tree. Reassembling a feather duster, it grows to approximately 20ft.
The Nikau palm is found throughout New Zealand, growing as far south as Christchurch. While the trunk of this tree is of no use for building it's large leaves provided useful shelter for the early Maori, who also ate the young shots and buds. Wood Pigeons consume the berries in large quantities. The Nikau berry is extremely hard and was sometimes used as shotgun ammunition by early settlers.
Getting content out of the system
By running an aggregator, we're taking a slight liberty with other peoples content. It's therefore important we've transparent about what we're doing. To this end, our index is available in a machine readable form for reuse by other members of the community.
ie. The Wellingtonista and WCN use our feed in to populate their Wellington news widgets.
Our ethos is, if we use a piece of data to render one of our own pages, then generally that data should also be available as a feed
RSS and JSON feeds
All of the main page types are available as an RSS or JSON feed. Appending /rss or /json to a site url will in most cases provide the underlying data in the desired format. (credit - this url scheme is inspired by the Guardian newspaper's site)
The complete range of available feeds is documented in the API instructions.