diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/sitemaps.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/sitemaps.txt
index f8a21f3d01..894a07787c 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/sitemaps.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/sitemaps.txt
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ loader can find the default templates.)
 Initialization
 ==============
 
-.. function:: views.sitemap(request, sitemaps, section=None, template_name='sitemap.xml', mimetype='application/xml')
+.. function:: views.sitemap(request, sitemaps, section=None, template_name='sitemap.xml', content_type='application/xml')
 
 To activate sitemap generation on your Django site, add this line to your
 :doc:`URLconf </topics/http/urls>`::
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ the sitemap. For example::
 Creating a sitemap index
 ========================
 
-.. function:: views.index(request, sitemaps, template_name='sitemap_index.xml', mimetype='application/xml', sitemap_url_name='django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap')
+.. function:: views.index(request, sitemaps, template_name='sitemap_index.xml', content_type='application/xml', sitemap_url_name='django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap')
 
 The sitemap framework also has the ability to create a sitemap index that
 references individual sitemap files, one per each section defined in your