Brion Vibber schrieb:

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Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:

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According to http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:%24wgArticleRobotPolicies, one can set robot policies for individual pages with $wgArticleRobotPolicies.

However, it doesn't work for me, i.e., when I add:

$wgArticleRobotPolicies = array( 'Special:Categories' => 'index,follow' );

I still get noindex,nofollow on that page.

Special pages would be in control of their own robots settings, so probably not overrideable here.

In other words, for special pages I would have to change php code, I guess?

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It is the same for other, non-special pages - setting anything with $wgArticleRobotPolicies for any page doesn't seem to have any effect.

Am I missing anything? I use 1.12.0.

Seems to work fine for me:

$wgArticleRobotPolicies = array( 'Main Page' => 'testing' );

outputs

<meta name="robots" content="testing" />

on my main page. Please confirm that you're not looking at a cached page, and that you're setting a non-default value (it won't bother outputting it if it's the default 'index,follow').

I'm not looking at a cached page. I even disabled all extensions...

And here is why it didn't work for me - $wgArticleRobotPolicies has to be placed *before* require_once( "includes/DefaultSettings.php" ):

This one will work:

require_once( "includes/DefaultSettings.php" );

$wgArticleRobotPolicies = array( 'Some_Page' => 'testing' );

This one will NOT work:

$wgArticleRobotPolicies = array( 'Some_Page' => 'testing' );

require_once( "includes/DefaultSettings.php" );

And indeed, it doesn't work for special pages, which is a pity a bit.