[cross-posted to wikien-l and wikitech-l, adjust follow-ups as necessary]
I just tried to add the RecentChanges RSS feed to my Google Personal page at http://www.google.com/ig and was met by a rude response.
I copied the link from [[Special:RecentChanges]] ( http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss ) and pasted it into the appropriate box.
The response was as follows: Your search http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss was blocked by that feed's robots.txt.
What's going on?
Phil Boswell wrote:
The response was as follows: Your search http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss was blocked by that feed's robots.txt.
What's going on?
It means that Wikimedia have kindly asked Google not to access certain parts of the site (namely everything in /w/) and that Google is kind enough to abide by it.
Timwi
Phil Boswell wrote:
[cross-posted to wikien-l and wikitech-l, adjust follow-ups as necessary]
[also cross-posted]
I just tried to add the RecentChanges RSS feed to my Google Personal page at http://www.google.com/ig and was met by a rude response.
I copied the link from [[Special:RecentChanges]] ( http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss ) and pasted it into the appropriate box.
The response was as follows: Your search http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss was blocked by that feed's robots.txt.
What's going on?
try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recentchanges?feed=rss