[Foundation-l] Hiding namespaces from search engines
Alex
mrzmanwiki at gmail.com
Thu Mar 20 17:47:29 UTC 2008
It appears there already is a $wgNamespaceRobotPolicies, though by
default there is nothing set for it.
Chad wrote:
> That would be a step in the right direction. I was thinking
> a similar global could affect the search results, but wasn't
> thinking about using it for noindex,nofollow as well within
> pages. Good idea. Since the output class has a
> setRobotpolicy() method, we could easily use that to
> do it per-namespace. However, then it's a matter of just
> making the internal search respect the noindex command
> as well.
>
> -Chad
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Alex <mrzmanwiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Chad wrote:
>> > I think it's a great idea, personally. Robots.txt has (hopefully)
>> > been a way for us to keep things like this out of search engines.
>> > Keeping it out of our internal searches (ie: for our anon users)
>> > would be beneficial as well, methinks.
>> >
>>
>> Currently all (most?) special pages contain
>> <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" />
>> Perhaps instead of using robots.txt for this, a configuration variable
>> like $wgNonIndexedNamespaces = array( ... ); that would add that meta
>> tag to the top of every page in the namespace and could be easily
>> referenced used by the internal search as well?
>>
>> --
>> Alex (w:en:User:Mr.Z-man)
>>
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