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Platonides wrote:
Simetrical wrote:
On 5/7/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Last I tried google wouldn't remove 'deleted' pages from the index because they still 'existed'. :(
That's a good point. Why doesn't MediaWiki return a 404 when a page isn't found?
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2585
It was tried and seemed to cause problems for some users.
"Several users have reported being persistently unable to access nonexistent pages" is quite vague. Do you know what was the specific problem? Did they get a blank page? A niced 404? A MessageBox?
We were unable to reproduce the problem at the time, so cannot say more specifically than that it was disruptive and there were multiple complaints.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)