[Foundation-l] Hiding namespaces from search engines

Wed Mar 19 14:40:06 UTC 2008

Which leads to the question...

Is there any way to get the internal search to honour some sort of ranking
to put stuff in robots.txt at the very bottom?

Brian McNeil

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[mailto:foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Gray
Sent: 19 March 2008 15:31
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Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Hiding namespaces from search engines

On 19/03/2008, Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org> wrote:
> Actually, I'm really pleased to see this come up.
>
>  Wikinews has a story preparation area where things like obituaries are
>  developed in advance. This caused problems with us having a major
interview
>  with Shimon Perez and his prepared obit. being one of the top 10 hits
too.
>
>  If I put this through a vote/consensus building process is the mechanism
to
>  get it implemented a bugzilla request?

# en.wikinews:
# https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5340
Disallow: /wiki/Portal:Prepared_stories/
Disallow: /wiki/Portal%3APrepared_stories/

# it.wikinews, http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9138
Disallow: /wiki/Wikinotizie:Richieste_di_cancellazione
Disallow: /wiki/Wikinotizie:Sospette_violazioni_di_copyright
Disallow: /wiki/Categoria:Da_cancellare_subito
Disallow:
/wiki/Categoria:Da_cancellare_subito_per_violazione_integrale_copyright
Disallow: /wiki/Wikinotizie:Storie_in_preparazione

...looks like they're already in there.

-- 
- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk

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