[WikiEN-l] Searchability of non-mainspace pages

[Relata Refero]

I'm still puzzled: I'd like someone to explain once again why we're doing
this instead of having a discussion about when to apply courtesy blanking,
which leaves the decision more solidly in the hands of the community, and is
less of a blunt instrument than this.

RR

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:05 AM, Charles Matthews <
charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:

>  "David Gerard" wrote
>
> > 2008/5/1 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com>:
> >
> > >  Not for that reason - but David's suggestion is a Very Bad Idea.
> Tools for site development (eg redlink lists) naturally reside in userspace,
> and we should care about editors finding them.
> >
> >
> > ooh, ouch, yes.
> >
> > (How findable are these in practice in Google at present?)
>
> Oh, very.
>
> We need a different question, really. If MediaWiki were deliberately
> designed to have some namespaces that were for search engines to find, and
> others not, how should that be set up?
>
> Something like the article space, Wikipedia: space and some Development:
> space might do. All discussion namespaces are inherently dodgy. But one more
> namespace that was non-article, non-policy might do; and one more namespace
> on the other side, so that AfDs didn't have to be in the Wikipedia: space -
> now this is sounding more reasonable to me.
>
> Charles
>
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