[Foundation-l] Hiding namespaces from search engines

[Andrew Gray]

On 19/03/2008, Rotem Liss <rotemliss at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was asked by User:The-Q at hewiki to send this question to the list, per
>  technical problems subscribing to the list:
>
>  Hello,
>
>  We on Hebrew Wikipedia decided to cast a vote on hiding some talk namespaces
>  ("Talk", "Wikipedia Talk", "User Talk", etc) from search engines such as
>  Google.
>
>  Just before the vote, we decided to ask if the foundation has any objections.

I don't believe there will be any - other projects happily do this
sort of blocking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/robots.txt gives a list of the pages currently
blocked, though it's not very clear what project is what unless you
recognise the lanugage.

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk