Considering as how this issue of noindexing user-space and user-talk by default only seems
an issue with a very small handful of editors, I would think the community at-large, who
has been having their space indexed for years, would fall on the side of continuing
withthe *least* amount of disruption to the status quo.
??? That would be to no-index *on request* user pages and their associated talk pages,
project pages and their associated talk pages.? That is, the default would be, as it is
today, to index.? But a project or user can opt-in to not index.
?
Will Johnson
-----Original Message-----
From: Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia) <newyorkbrad(a)gmail.com>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 3:40 pm
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] No-indexing of project-space pages
On 7/23/08, WJhonson(a)aol.com <WJhonson(a)aol.com> wrote: > >
Killing a mosquito with a hammer is not the proper approach however. > Most of, if
not all the major issues NYB brought up, were > addressed already. I
appreciate from Steve Bain's and other posts that the issue I raised in my first post
has been addressed with regard to XfD, RfA, RfAr, RFC, and BLP/N pages (that is, at least
the archives of these pages; I think the current pages should be no-indexed as well).
However, the same principles that called for no-indexing these pages would also apply to
DRV (which is indistinguishable in principle, for these purposes, from XfD; the only
reason those pages are still indexed, as I understand it, has to do with page layout
issues), as well as SSP, RfCU, the former PAIN and CSN, WQA, AN, AN/I, and AN3.
Pending issues include (1) do we agree to no-indexing all of these; (2) should project
space be no-index with an "index this page" opt-in (my preference and how do we
set that up); (3) how do we treat userspace (my preference would be a no-index default
with users allowed to opt into being indexed if they wish); and (4) other namespaces.
Could someone post a link to any discussion that might be taking place on-wiki or on
Bugzilla? Thanks, Newyorkbrad _______________________________________________
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