[Foundation-l] Hiding namespaces from search engines
Brian McNeil
brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org
Wed Mar 19 14:28:38 UTC 2008
Actually, I'm really pleased to see this come up.
Wikinews has a story preparation area where things like obituaries are
developed in advance. This caused problems with us having a major interview
with Shimon Perez and his prepared obit. being one of the top 10 hits too.
If I put this through a vote/consensus building process is the mechanism to
get it implemented a bugzilla request?
Of course, robots.txt is very useful for humans too. In the past I've gone
through the one at whitehouse.gov to see what they don't want Google to
know. ;-)
Brian McNeil
-----Original Message-----
From: foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Gray
Sent: 19 March 2008 15:13
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
Cc: rotemliss at gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Hiding namespaces from search engines
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.
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
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