Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 5/17/06, William Allen Simpson
<william.allen.simpson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Looking at the patch, it seems to me that a
better solution would handle
both NOINDEX *and* NOFOLLOW.
Certainly, most namespaces should be indexed, while "User" and "User
talk"
should probably never be indexed or followed. Meanwhile, "Wikipedia" and
"Wikipedia talk" should probably always be both indexed and followed, as
the problem of spam links is low, but valuable cross-wiki links is high.
The incidence of uncaught spam in everything except main (i.e.
including main talk) is *much* higher than in main. I'm not aware of
anyone that really protests nofollow in those other NSes. User pages
are probably the worst, because no only are people not paying
attention, they feel compelled not to remove spam when they see it...
but the problem is pretty significant in other NSes too.
Had not seen it in Wikipedia or Wikipedia talk spaces. Again, supports
the notion of fairly fine-grained control, as the proposed patch allows.
Noindex will impact the use of google to find interior
pages and
shouldn't be done until our own search engine is more functional.
Eventually we *should* turn it on.. if nothing else than to avoid
confusing random outsiders with our sausage making (just as we've done
with the AFD pages).
I was unaware of the NOINDEX on AfD, and would extend it to CfD and TfD.
There's no need for indexing User and User talk, either, and for similar
reasons. Again, supports the notion of fairly fine-grained control.
Can the
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5523 patch be
extended to NOINDEX?