[Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Searchability of non-mainspace pages

Marco Chiesa chiesa.marco at gmail.com
Tue Apr 29 16:43:22 UTC 2008


Jimmy Wales ha scritto:
> I would support that for some kinds of pages, blanking should be the 
> default upon the close of discussion.
>   
Should history be left for documentation purposes?
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>
> I wonder how hard it would be to have a technical change whereby 
> articles could be tagged with a {{noindex}} template which would set the 
> meta headers appropriately.  This could be liberally applied to project 
> pages that may be magnets for bad behavior.
>
> And then user space could be the only thing removed from google by default.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>   
What about Wikipedia clones? We had experience of AfD pages that get 
copied by clones and google indexes them (they have a {{noindex}} on 
it.wikipedia). People that were declared non-notable don't like this 
fact to be their first googlehit.

Cruccone



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