"Chris Howie" wrote
I think the closest we're going to get to a good
technical solution
would be to have some magic words __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__ that will
force indexing on or off for a document. The default could be set
per-namespace, and I'm assuming we'd want articlespace to be the only
one indexed by default.
This begins to start to sound like the right lines ...
In detail:
We surely would want all major policy and guideline documents indexed. But that could be
done by opting "in" for those, leaving the bulk of the Wikipedia: namespace
"out". The redlinks pages, such as "missing encyclopedia articles",
should be opted "in".
I think we'd want the Category: namespace in by default - why not?
This then leaves a discussion about the User: namespace. Unnatural not to index user
pages? Or leave it that the default is non-indexed, and you have to take the positive step
to put your userpage or essay out there.
I believe this is a sane debate, at least.
Charles
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