[Foundation-l] Searchability of non-mainspace pages

[Larry Pieniazek]

In reply to NYB's post here (which was also posted to wikien-l and which I
replied to with the same text)

The following bug, which I just entered into Bugzilla, may (if I worded it
right, and I welcome refinement or pointing out that it's a dup) be relevant
to this matter.

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13864

I agree with NYB that this is a serious matter, with the potential to cause
harm to innocent bystanders, and that we should do the right thing (whatever
it is) because it's the right thing to do, not because of what some external
site or person wants us to do or not do.

With the recent improvements in internal search, the time is ripe to
consider doing this.

note that I have in the bug asked for the functionality to control the
defaults project wide, not just on en-wp.

Larry Pieniazek
Hobby mail: Lar at Miltontrainworks dot com