[WikiEN-l] No-indexing of project-space pages

[geni]

2008/7/30 David Katz <dkatz2001 at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Chris Howie <cdhowie at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:12 AM, David Katz <dkatz2001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Would this prevent mirror sites from 'scraping' noindex pages? This
>>> would be a definite improvement as talk pages are often a depository
>>> of libel and whilst we can remove and oversight material on wp pages
>>> we're powerless to do anything on a mirror
>>
>> I believe most mirrors use an actual database dump (though some might
>> scrape).  In that case they would get all the content on Wikipedia,
>> wherever it is.
>
> Is there anyway we can set things so that mirrors only mirror the
> actual namespace content and not talk, user and WP administrative
> pages?

Nope. Tthere are a couple of ways you could do it in in theory but the
side effects would be unacceptable.


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geni