Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:05:36 UTC
Now (allmost) all pages of the wiki show up in google and others search engines. Request; make a tag (like __NOINDEX__ ) that results that the page that contains that tag would send the "noindex" request to spiders. So can local projects and users decide them self of there user page or a archive page will show up in google
We're not likely to do this, as our wikis are supposed to be public. Such a tag would at a minimum interfere with searching and at worst can be abused.
That's a valid point of Brion, but as I understand this concerns only user pages and talk pages. So I like to propose a wiki-wide option to disable search-indexing on user pages, talk pages, talk user pages, wikipedia pages, etc. Search-indexing is only relevant for the articles. Cheers, Jeroenvrp
This is a public project, where items are being published on the Internet, not a discussion forum. If you don't want to be found in a Google search, *don't publish things.*
Rob's "If you don't want to be found in a Google search, *don't publish things.* falls down though where Wikipedia is concerned as - with very rare exceptions - the subjects of the articles didn't create them, or request us to write them, or supply us with the data. Indeed, many ask us to delete the article whether it is good or bad content. I'm not presently re-opening this item, but I think it deserves reconsideration at some point. AW
Every page on Wikipedia is by definition meant to be public and published, so material that should not be public and published indeed *should* be deleted.
Something I've noticed that is relevant: Using the define:foo feature on google often results in a Wikipedia listing. This is good. However, if you ask google to define a misspelled word for which Wikipedia has a redirect in place, you get the correct definition without any real indication that you misspelled the word. For example, ask google for define:anthromorph (a misspelling of anthropomorph), you get the first part of the Wikipedia page [[Anthropomorphism]], with no indication that you asked for a misspelling. Seems like an argument for allowing some redirect pages to have the "noindex" attribute.
