[Labs-l] google search for 'wikimedia labs' gives the wrong result

Mono monomium at gmail.com
Wed May 2 13:58:32 UTC 2012


robots.txt would work

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Petr Bena <benapetr at gmail.com> wrote:

> For now I have changed http://en.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page so
> that it clearly say that deployment is a part of wikimedia labs with
> url to both projects, so that google at least should index console as
> well. If we need to fix this, removal of wiki is not only solution,
> google display pages with most of links from other sites on top, so
> that if we linked labs console from more places, especially
> mediawiki.org, we might get it to the top as well
>
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:11 AM, Chad Horohoe <chorohoe at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Ryan Lane <rlane32 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> More out of interest than anything else, why is it so hard/impossible
> to
> >>> fully delete wikis?  Is it simply that it's never been done before and
> so
> >>> there's no process for doing it?  (In which case what about instances
> like
> >>> september11wiki?)  Or is there some circular dependency that can't be
> >>> broken?
> >>>
> >>
> >> As far as I know we've just never done it, so nothing exists for doing
> >> it cleanly.
> >>
> >
> > I think it's out of paranoia more than anything. In theory we should
> > be able to do it, but we're afraid of things like CentralAuth that may
> > have dangling references to the now-gone wiki.
> >
> > If we documented the process really well the first time we did it, I
> > don't think it'll be as hard as we think.
> >
> > -Chad
> >
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