On 10/26/07, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On 10/26/07, RLS evendell@gmail.com wrote:
Anthony wrote:
On 10/26/07, Yousef Ourabi yourabi@zero-analog.com wrote:
What I don't understand is how this fits in with the "no-crawler" policy?
What "no-crawler" policy?
[[Wikipedia:Database download#Please do not use a web crawler]]
Have Google and Yahoo been informed of this policy?
BTW, that talks about articles, not images. And it contradicts robots.txt, especially "## we're disabling this experimentally 11-09-2006\n#Crawl-delay: 1"
It seems to stem from something said on the Village Pump back in 2003.
Here's the diff: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Village_pump&di...
Some other fun stuff from the village pump circa 2003: *"I suggest that all articles about movies and tv shows be scrapped, and instead have the links point to the apropriate page on the Internet Movie Database." - Vroman *"There is never a good reason to delete perfectly good material from the Wikipedia. Wikipedia isn't paper." - Zoe *"A wiki devoted just to movies and TV shows would not be a bad thing. We're probably not there yet, though." - Wapcaplet (inventor of Wikia?) *"I fear we can't ban this range. Banning this is banning all of AOL." - JeLuF *"As nobody else had edited this article, its arbitrary deletion was uncontroversial. However, deleting articles that someone else has edited (beyond blanking/reverts) is more controversial, with strong opinions on both sides." - Martin