On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Larry Pieniazek lar@miltontrainworks.com wrote:
For reference, I opened this bugzilla bug
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13864
because, I think fairly obviously, I support minimizing indexing by external sources of anything other than encyclopedic content (mainspace (article) pages, and images... not even their talks) for just about every case.
I tried to suggest that there should be an easy general way to do this. BRION said there is already. So I guess what is needed is the discussion to validate it.
It is difficult to achieve consensus for anything controversial on en:wp but I hope this gains traction.
For reference, Brion said:
------ Comment #7 From Brion Vibber 2008-04-29 21:01:47 UTC -------
Yes, namespaces can indeed be disabled from indexing per-wiki by customizing $wgNamespaceRobotPolicies. This has existed for some time, and no technical changes are required for implementation of a community decision.
So this seems to be a trivial change on the back-end if there is support for it.
- Joe