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Bug 7775 - 'Randompage' in robots.txt should be 'Random'?


Summary:	'Randompage' in robots.txt should be 'Random'?

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	Wikimedia
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	Normal trivial (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Nobody - You can work on this!

URL:	http://en.wikipedia.org/robots.txt
Whiteboard:
Keywords:	shell

Depends on:
Blocks:
	Show dependency tree / graph

Reported:	2006-10-31 21:02 UTC by Freddy Vulto
Modified:	2006-11-03 16:32 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester:	---

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Description Freddy Vulto 2006-10-31 21:02:46 UTC

The file robots.txt on wikipedia.org contains:

   Disallow: /wiki/Special:Randompage
   Disallow: /wiki/Special%3ARandompage

but the actual link is Special:Random - not Special:Randompage, so
shouldn't robots.txt contain:

   Disallow: /wiki/Special:Random
   Disallow: /wiki/Special%3ARandom

The current setting lets Google index random pages.  Now when you select
a search result, Google will serve you another (random) page - NOT the
page as suggested in the search results.  For example, search Google for:

   allinanchor:"Special:Random" site:wikipedia.org

and click on link '../wiki/Special:Random'.

Freddy Vulto
http://www.fvue.nl/wiki/Google_indexes_MediaWiki_page_with_url_of_Random_page

Comment 1 Brion Vibber 2006-11-03 16:32:29 UTC

Some time ago Special:Randompage was moved to Special:Random; the old name remains as an alias.
Conveniently the new name is a prefix of the old one, so we only need one entry. ;)

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