[WikiEN-l] Gooooooogle

[Minh Nguyen]

Steve Block wrote:
> Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
>> I have a couple of persistent problem users on my watchlist at the
>> moment, both of whom persistently obfuscate the titles of articles
>> they created and which have since been deleted, in an attempt to keep
>> their shenanigans off the Google results for the subjects (Ecopave and
>> Patrick Buri for the interested).
>>
>> Is there any merit in requesting a change so that user and project
>> space are excluded from the Google indexing?  What about
>> deleted-protected?
> 
> I would support only having article and portal space indexed, not even 
> having talk pages indexed.  Is there a way of doing it so it would be 
> picked up across mirrors too?  I have no idea of how it's done beyond 
> the no robots or something command in the headers.  I have a feeling 
> this is a perennial though.
> 
> Steve block

Would it be possible to set up a Google Sitemap that gives very low 
priority to project-space pages? I often find it useful to search for 
project pages at Wikipedia, but the built-in search engine doesn't 
support some querying features that Google does, like placing phrases in 
quotes.

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