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Bug 14076 - Exclude bot-generated spam reports on meta from indexing via robots.txt
Exclude bot-generated spam reports on meta from indexing via robots.txt
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
Site requests (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
: shell
Depends on:
Blocks: robots.txt
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Reported: 2008-05-10 20:09 UTC by Mike.lifeguard
Modified: 2008-08-14 02:31 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description Mike.lifeguard 2008-05-10 20:09:38 UTC
Please exclude the following from being indexed by modifying robots.txt:
*[[m:Talk:Spam blacklist]] and subpages
*[[m:User:COIBot/LinkReports]] and subpages
*[[m:User:COIBot/COIReports]] and subpages
*[[m:User:COIBot/UserReports]] and subpages
*[[m:User:SpamReportBot/cw]] and subpages
*And the talk pages for all of the above
Comment 1 A. B. 2008-05-12 13:51:44 UTC
I agree with excluding crawlers from the bot report pages. I disagree with removing crawlers from [[m:Talk:Spam blacklist]] and its subpages. See my reasoning at http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Spam_blacklist&oldid=992898#Excluding_our_work_from_search_engines
Comment 2 Mike.lifeguard 2008-05-21 02:46:48 UTC
OK, per discussion, please do not exclude [[m:Talk:Spam blacklist]] or subpages. The rest listed above is fine to add.
Comment 3 Mike.lifeguard 2008-08-06 15:16:54 UTC
Currently we are planning on having a bot edit some 47000 pages to add __NOINDEX__ - it would be much easier to have the bot reports not indexed with this addition to robots.txt

We are still deciding whether to have the talk page and/or archives indexed or not, but we can manage that with the magic word; no action is required from the sysadmins.
Comment 4 Mike.lifeguard 2008-08-06 15:18:35 UTC
Actually, it is ~25000 pages (enwiki was included in the 47000 figure), but the point remains.
Comment 5 Mike.lifeguard 2008-08-14 02:31:09 UTC
Fixed by r37973 - __NOINDEX__ is applied to the pages in question through a template (& new ones use the magic word directly).

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