FWIW I have also seen many cases of userspace drafts being indexed. Perhaps
something to do with the fact that they are always subpages?
On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 10:35 AM Jon Robson <jdlrobson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Looks like a bug
Looking closely this meta tag is present in user pages:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow">
but not present in that particular sub page [1].
I haven't had time to investigate further but please raise a phabricator
task.
[1]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nobleeagle/India_as_an_emerging_superp…
On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Dan Garry <dgarry(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hello!
In this thread
<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Userpage_d…
,
there was a discussion about indexing of user space by search engines.
In a
nutshell, user space pages are not subject to
content policies so that
users can write drafts freely, and having those pages indexed by search
engines like Google is viewed as problematic since those pages can seem
fairly official.
I seem to recall that it was not the default in the past that user pages
were indexed by search engines. I'm trying to figure out if there's some
other cause for this that's happened recently, because I'd prefer to
avoid
piling hacks on and not address the root issue.
Does anyone know of anything that's changed recently that might've
changed
the way that search engines index user space?
Thanks,
Dan
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