Alejandro Exojo escribió:

Hi.

Just a minor issue: which is the rule for the placement of magic words? I've added __NOINDEX__ to the bottom of two pages, and only one worked. Then I moved the text to the top of the problematic page, and it worked. Then I discovered that the problem was not the placement: the page in which the magic word wasn't working was in a category, and I added the [[Category:Foo]] just before the magic word.

Is this the expected behaviour? Do the magic words need a special placement or any formatting constraint, or is this a bug? I found it with 1.14.0.

Thanks in advance.

The placement is not relevant. But NOINDEX may not work on all namespaces. There's a configuration for that. You can also use robots.txt for a similar effect.