On 18/09/2007, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
If the bottom line is becoming the most visited website, then it's obviously a bad idea. If the bottom line is to create the worlds best encyclopedia, on the other hand, there's not an obvious winner either way.
Well, either way, there's no reason to Google-index the non-encyclopaedic parts of the site (everything but the main and image spaces). Selective indexing might be helpful for the rest, e.g. a patch could be written to add <meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow"> or <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"> to pages with the click of a checkbox. Of course, the patch would have to be committed, which could be problematic.