For reference, I opened this bugzilla bug
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13864
because, I think fairly obviously, I support minimizing indexing by external sources of anything other than encyclopedic content (mainspace (article) pages, and images... not even their talks) for just about every case.
I tried to suggest that there should be an easy general way to do this. BRION said there is already. So I guess what is needed is the discussion to validate it.
It is difficult to achieve consensus for anything controversial on en:wp but I hope this gains traction.
Larry Pieniazek Hobby mail: Lar at Miltontrainworks dot com
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Larry Pieniazek lar@miltontrainworks.com wrote:
For reference, I opened this bugzilla bug
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13864
because, I think fairly obviously, I support minimizing indexing by external sources of anything other than encyclopedic content (mainspace (article) pages, and images... not even their talks) for just about every case.
I tried to suggest that there should be an easy general way to do this. BRION said there is already. So I guess what is needed is the discussion to validate it.
It is difficult to achieve consensus for anything controversial on en:wp but I hope this gains traction.
For reference, Brion said:
------ Comment #7 From Brion Vibber 2008-04-29 21:01:47 UTC -------
Yes, namespaces can indeed be disabled from indexing per-wiki by customizing $wgNamespaceRobotPolicies. This has existed for some time, and no technical changes are required for implementation of a community decision.
So this seems to be a trivial change on the back-end if there is support for it.
- Joe
Is there an on-wiki discussion ongoing concurrently with the mailing list discussion? Consensus for a change will need to be established on wiki, so perhaps if someone identified the right forum (VPP?) we can paste in NYB's initial post (with his permission, of course) and get the ball rolling.
Nathan
On 7/23/08, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
Is there an on-wiki discussion ongoing concurrently with the mailing list discussion? Consensus for a change will need to be established on wiki, so perhaps if someone identified the right forum (VPP?) we can paste in NYB's initial post (with his permission, of course) and get the ball rolling.
Nathan
I will post there but probably cannot get to it until this evening, or anyone else should feel free (and please post a link here). My original post is out-of-date by reason of the additional information provided by Steve Bain, so it would need to be updated.
Newyorkbrad