[Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Searchability of non-mainspace pages

[David Gerard]

2008/4/29 David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com>:

> I would be very reluctant to use NOINDEX on any mainspace article
>  pages. If it is appropriate to have the article content, then it is
>  appropriate to index it in the most public way.


Absolutely. The solution to bad living bios in article space, for
example, is to fix, stub or remove them.


>  Other namespaces--even article talk pages--that's another matter. They
>  should normally be public, but in my view some of them not searchable
>  by google


Yeah. Our internal search needs to be a lot better. Fortunately, this
is happening. Just not yesterday.


- d.