On 7/23/08, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Charlotte Webb charlottethewebb@gmail.com wrote:
- (optional, sounds quite tricky) Split the category namespace.
Figure out some way to train google-bot to:
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That could be addressed with a __NOINDEX__ parser directive that could be applied on a page by page basis for things like that... the complication there is that eventually people would abuse it to hide things in places we normally expect to be indexed.
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.
Newyorkbrad