[WikiEN-l] unintended consequences

[Ray Saintonge]

Andrew Gray wrote:

>On 26/05/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
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>>David Mestel wrote:
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>>>>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...
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>>>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?
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>>Stable versioning has been imminent for a long time now.   Perhaps when
>>it is operational indexing should only apply to stable versions.
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>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"...
>
If you apply that limitation to stable versions you are right.  Stable 
versioning, however, should be developed to the point where it can do a 
lot more.

Ec