On sab, 2002-05-18 at 16:32, Daniel Mayer wrote:
Another reason to disallow bots access to history is
because
there often is copyrighted material in the history of pages that has since
been removed from the current article version (it would be nice for an admin
to able to delete just an older version of an article BTW).
I've been meaning to add this, but haven't gotten around to it yet.
It'll go in with some other maintanence tools (for the ability to
undelete something if necessary, and to find and reattach or dump
"homeless" entries that may have somehow come loose in the database.
Actually, those last two are the same ability.)
The edit links REALLY should NOT be allowed to be
indexed by any bot:
Amen!
There could, of course, be a purely technical fix for
this by having the
software not recognize newly created blank or "Describe the new page here"
pages as being real pages (a Good Idea BTW).
Good idea, and should be easy to do; I'll add this right away if there
are no objections.
Links to older versions of articles and to
history pages also sets-up would-be contributors into becoming labeled as
"vandals" when trying to edit an older version -- thus turning them away
forever.
Good point.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)