[Foundation-l] Hiding namespaces from search engines

[Alex]

Chad wrote:
> I think it's a great idea, personally. Robots.txt has (hopefully)
> been a way for us to keep things like this out of search engines.
> Keeping it out of our internal searches (ie: for our anon users)
> would be beneficial as well, methinks.
> 

Currently all (most?) special pages contain
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" />
Perhaps instead of using robots.txt for this, a configuration variable 
like $wgNonIndexedNamespaces = array( ... ); that would add that meta 
tag to the top of every page in the namespace and could be easily 
referenced used by the internal search as well?

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Alex (w:en:User:Mr.Z-man)