Seems like wikimedia lists (which are mostly technical, about a wide
range of software products) cannot be equated with the wikipedia
(website) experience.
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:04 PM, <jidanni(a)jidanni.org> wrote:
"Search is central to the Wikipedia experience –
both as a way of
reaching the website as well as discovering content on Wikipedia."
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/10/26/search-and-wikipedia/
Alas, Search is not central for these lists,
$ GET
http://lists.wikimedia.org/robots.txt
# robots.txt for
lists.wikimedia.org
#
# Disabled crawling for several lists 2005-11-26 to
# discourage people from complaining about items they
# post on public mailing lists being the first Google
# search result about them.
#
# Disabled for all lists 2006-11-03, now that an internal
# search has been set up using htdig.
#
# Note that list archives remain public.
#
User-agent: *
Disallow: /pipermail/
Can they at least take that line about hitdg out.
_______________________________________________
Wikitech-l mailing list
Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l