On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia) newyorkbrad@gmail.com wrote:
Changing the default indexing status of a page (index to no-index or vice versa) could theoretically be made an admin-only function (and would count as use of an administrator tool, with the accountability implied thereby). However, this implies longer-term mediawiki programming changes of unknown complexity, so certainly shouldn't become a barrier to other progress.
Right. Perfect is the enemy of good. Get the defaults sane per-namespace and then we'll be motivated to figure out how to set the defaults.
I'd propose that only Main, Portal, Category, and Image be indexed. With Category eventually slimmed down via some more selective process, and Wikipedia: eventually puffed up. ... though I'd support any and all proposals that cut down on the indexing of 'meta' namespaces.