Considering as how this issue of noindexing user-space and user-talk by default only seems an issue with a very small handful of editors, I would think the community at-large, who has been having their space indexed for years, would fall on the side of continuing withthe *least* amount of disruption to the status quo.
??? That would be to no-index *on request* user pages and their associated talk pages, project pages and their associated talk pages.? That is, the default would be, as it is today, to index.? But a project or user can opt-in to not index.
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Will Johnson
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From: Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia) <newyorkbrad@gmail.com>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 3:40 pm
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] No-indexing of project-space pages
On 7/23/08, WJhonson@aol.com <WJhonson@aol.com> wrote: > > Killing a mosquito with a hammer is not the proper approach however. > Most of, if not all the major issues NYB brought up, were > addressed already. I appreciate from Steve Bain's and other posts that the issue I raised in my first post has been addressed with regard to XfD, RfA, RfAr, RFC, and BLP/N pages (that is, at least the archives of these pages; I think the current pages should be no-indexed as well). However, the same principles that called for no-indexing these pages would also apply to DRV (which is indistinguishable in principle, for these purposes, from XfD; the only reason those pages are still indexed, as I understand it, has to do with page layout issues), as well as SSP, RfCU, the former PAIN and CSN, WQA, AN, AN/I, and AN3. Pending issues include (1) do we agree to no-indexing all of these; (2) should project space be no-index with an "index this page" opt-in (my preference and how do we set that up); (3) how do we treat userspace (my preference would be a no-index default with users allowed to opt into being indexed if they wish); and (4) other namespaces. Could someone post a link to any discussion that might be taking place on-wiki or on Bugzilla? Thanks, Newyorkbrad _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l