Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Happy-melon happy-melon@live.com wrote:
If people think it would be better as a special page we'd make http://foo.example.com/w/index.php?title=Bar&action=edit a hard redirect to Special:Edit/Bar; that has the significant advantage of being able to be formed as an internal link.
I've always thought this was the best way to do things. Be careful about overusing short URLs, though -- the only reason robots don't spider /w/index.php?title=Foo&action=edit right now is because it starts with /w/ instead of /wiki/.
I can't think of a reason that any of the Special namespace needs to be indexed. Most of it is already marked noindex in the meta tags, as far as I remember. Additional explicit exclusion in a robots.txt file is always a good idea, though. Some auto-generation of a robots.txt file might be nice (WordPress does this). It's easy enough to exclude based on the prefix "Special:", but it's the localizations that ruin everything.
MZMcBride