[WikiEN-l] unintended consequences

[Brock Weller]

And Andrew wins. Stable versioning wont solve anything, nor will noindexing.
Part of being an encyclopedia means wanting people to use you, which (for
one on-line) means showing up in search engines.

On 5/26/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 26/05/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> > David Mestel wrote:
> >
> > >>You said Devs said "No" to noindexing given pages, right?  It's too
> bad we
> > >>can't make a template for all BLPs that injects noindex...
> > >>
> > >>
> > >That seems a bit pointless to me: either we want people to find an
> article
> > >or we don't.  If we don't, I have a better solution: delete it.  If we
> do,
> > >why not let the search engines index it?
> > >
> > Stable versioning has been imminent for a long time now.   Perhaps when
> > it is operational indexing should only apply to stable versions.
>
> That wouldn't really solve the problem at all - it's quite possible to
> have a stable-but-crap article. "Stable" only really means "pretty
> likely it doesn't say Joe is Gay anywhere"...
>
> --
> - Andrew Gray
>   andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
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-Brock