Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Happy-melon
<happy-melon(a)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