On 10/26/07, Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
On 10/26/07, RLS <evendell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Anthony wrote:
On 10/26/07, Yousef Ourabi
<yourabi(a)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&d…
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