On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 14:56:31 +0000, Rowan Collins
<rowan.collins(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:57:02 -0600, Kevin Puetz
<puetzk(a)puetzk.org> wrote:
The best proposal I've seen so far is to
apply it to all recently-modified
pages (with 'recent' determined per project by how fast you think the
editors will get it cleaned up - probably a day or so is reasonable). That
assumes that it will get cleaned up before the timeout expires, and
prevents it from being visible to a robot in the interim. But links that
survive for a while still become rankable. And it's fairly simple, unlike
tracking, per-link, whether or not it has been verified.
Although this *seems* simple, the database request needed to determine
"how old is this page" [snip]
This should not be an issue since this query is already made, look at
the bottom of any page on any wikimedia project, you'll see something
like " This page was last modified 00:05, 5 Feb 2005."