[Mediawiki-l] Spam and history

[Brion Vibber]

On Oct 12, 2004, at 2:01 PM, selva at thescian.com wrote:
> How to keep google out of the history copies of pages?
> (would adding noindex metatag work? how do i do that for non-current 
> revisions
> of a page?)

It should, and it's already included.

> All the spam gets indexed although the pages are reverted.

Can you clarify what exactly is being indexed? Note that google doesn't 
update instantly when your pages change; if it happened to last visit a 
page while it was vandalised, the google cache will contain the 
vandalised version until googlebot next visits.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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