[Foundation-l] Hiding namespaces from search engines

[Chad]

That would be a step in the right direction. I was thinking
a similar global could affect the search results, but wasn't
thinking about using it for noindex,nofollow as well within
pages. Good idea. Since the output class has a
setRobotpolicy() method, we could easily use that to
do it per-namespace. However, then it's a matter of just
making the internal search respect the noindex command
as well.

-Chad

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Alex <mrzmanwiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>
>  --
>  Alex (w:en:User:Mr.Z-man)
>
>
>
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