The file robots.txt on wikipedia.org contains:
Disallow: /wiki/Special:Randompage Disallow: /wiki/Special%3ARandompage
but the actual link is Special:Random - not Special:Randompage, so shouldn't robots.txt contain:
Disallow: /wiki/Special:Random Disallow: /wiki/Special%3ARandom
The current setting lets Google index random pages. Now when you select a search result, Google will serve you another (random) page - NOT the page as suggested in the search results. For example, search Google for:
allinanchor:"Special:Random" site:wikipedia.org
and click on link '../wiki/Special:Random'.
Freddy Vulto http://www.fvue.nl/wiki/
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