[Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Searchability of non-mainspace pages

Tue Apr 29 18:07:43 UTC 2008

2008/4/29 Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com>:
> Charles Matthews wrote:
>  > Well, maybe we should discuss the downside first. Not having project
>  > pages on Google would certainly impede my work. You know, some of us
>  > still develop articles, and so on.
>
>  This is a valid point, and I think it needs to be addressed in a couple
>  of ways:
>
>  1. First, narrowing the scope of the noindex request.

Create a new name space no index it and move problematical pages there.

>  2. Second, finding out what it would take to improve internal search to
>  make it more usable for people developing articles and so on.

Spelling. Page rank based on internal links. Page rank based on
external links with proper weighting for authority domains. You are
not going to be able to match google's searching ability.

-- 
geni