[WikiEN-l] Re: RSS feed not working for Google Personal

Fri Sep 16 13:46:39 UTC 2005

Phil Boswell wrote:
> 
> The response was as follows:
>   Your search 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss
>   was blocked by that feed's robots.txt.
> 
> What's going on?

It means that Wikimedia have kindly asked Google not to access certain 
parts of the site (namely everything in /w/) and that Google is kind 
enough to abide by it.

Timwi