[WikiEN-l] No-indexing of project-space pages

[geni]

2008/7/25 Chris Howie <cdhowie at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:07 PM,  <wjhonson at aol.com> wrote:
>> Considering as how this issue of noindexing user-space and user-talk by default only seems an issue with a very small handful of editors, I would think the community at-large, who has been having their space indexed for years, would fall on the side of continuing withthe *least* amount of disruption to the status quo.
>>
>> ??? That would be to no-index *on request* user pages and their associated talk pages, project pages and their associated talk pages.? That is, the default would be, as it is today, to index.? But a project or user can opt-in to not index.
>
> I'd say a reasonable middle-ground would be to upgrade the software to
> support __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__ then give users a week or two to tag
> the stuff they want indexed with __INDEX__ before flipping the noindex
> switch on.  This would allow us to keep indexing the useful stuff
> without having to hunt down every userfied BLP and tag it.  Also, new
> userspace pages would be no-indexed by default, which seems like a
> good thing to me.
>


With the amount of stuff that it is useful to index about the only
sane response to putting such a procedure in place would be to bot tag
everything with __INDEX__ .

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geni