"David Gerard" wrote
2008/5/1 Charles Matthews
<charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com>om>:
Not for that reason - but David's suggestion
is a Very Bad Idea. Tools for site development (eg redlink lists) naturally reside in
userspace, and we should care about editors finding them.
ooh, ouch, yes.
(How findable are these in practice in Google at present?)
Oh, very.
We need a different question, really. If MediaWiki were deliberately designed to have some
namespaces that were for search engines to find, and others not, how should that be set
up?
Something like the article space, Wikipedia: space and some Development: space might do.
All discussion namespaces are inherently dodgy. But one more namespace that was
non-article, non-policy might do; and one more namespace on the other side, so that AfDs
didn't have to be in the Wikipedia: space - now this is sounding more reasonable to
me.
Charles
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