Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:41:11 UTC
On a small wiki analyzing web logs shows that 90% of the traffic is search engines indexing the most useless places, like Allmessages, old revisions, you name it. Every nook and cranny they've crawled into. Therefore please increase nofollow links or whatever. Indeed, perhaps just exclude all except current pages and categories, and keep them out of Special: and Mediawiki: namespaces too, etc. I see there is a $wgNamespaceRobotPolicies etc. but little wiki sysops would not dare to tinker with these, so there should be better defaults.
Read includes/DefaultSettings.php: /** * Robot policies for namespaces * e.g. $wgNamespaceRobotPolicies = array( NS_TALK => 'noindex' ); */ $wgNamespaceRobotPolicies = array(); Doesn't seem all that hard to me.
hmmm, do we have something like a SPECIAL => 'noindex' too ?