On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 06:38, giskart wrote:
Hi,
I have noticed that google also have in his index the "talk:something"
namespace and "user:something", "User talk:something" on the English
and the Dutch wikipedia. The others i do not know.
And it also haves in his index the MetaWikipedia.
I find that google should not index our internall affairs. Only the aricles, nothing
else. And that the MetaWikipedia is not especialy for the general public. I should also
not be in the index of google.
Am I alone about this ?
The meta and talk pages should certainly be indexed. It's important for
Wikipedia that the process of Wikipedia be
indexed/public/searchable/accessible. The "edit" pages and automatically
generated pages don't need to be indexed.
If a Talk page competes with the article that's not a problem with
google--that points to a deficiency in the article. Or perhaps the talk
page has more interesting content. That's often the case.