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

[Luna]

Perhaps the ideal solution is one that omits these pages from search
results UNLESS the user specifically requests them in some way (for
example, a search term including "site:en.wikipedia.org")... but I
kinda doubt that's realistic, on my part.

I'll be sorry to lose some ability to find information easily, but
it's an unfortunate conundrum that articles and discussion pages are
given the same weight, and absent some better way to fix the resulting
problems... at least our internal search capabilities have gradually
been improving, as I think has consistently been the main worry when
this has come up in the past.

Should policy/guideline/essay/help pages continue to be indexed? It
primarily seems to be process/activity pages which are problematic in
this regard.

Are user pages uniformly problematic, or mainly those for
banned/blocked users? If it's an isolated group at all, we could just
as easily use the __NOINDEX__ keyword in relevant templates.

-Luna