On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 07:50:04PM -0700, Brion Vibber wrote:
On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 18:12, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
Currently the edit forms and other things are accessed by a URL similar to the one for viewing pages, but with an added query string: ..wiki.phtml?title=Name&action=edit vs. ..wiki.phtml?title=Name.
Well, not exactly. Viewing pages is done with /wiki/Name, which is very distinct from other operations at /w/wiki.phtml?title=Name&otherstuff. The primary advantage of this is being able to block off all non-view operations from web search indexing in robots.txt.
EXCEPT FOR FRICKING GOOGLE GRRRRGH. :)
But I'm sure it's just a misunderstanding. :)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
I think the misunderstanding is not on Google's part. As far as I can tell, Google isn't indexing that page.
A quick search on google for "wibrator wikipedia" shows a subsection for the edit link. Note that it doesn't have any 'Cached' link. This means that google saw a link to the edit page in a page that could be indexed.
So, stop being mean to my pet. <pats google softly on its head>