As no objection was seen, I have removed robots.txt on our Wiki host. Please speak out if anyone still found an problem that we should keep it.
On 2012/10/22 17:33, Rory O'Farrell said: > On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:29:18 +0200 > Herbert Duerr <h...@apache.org> wrote: > >> On 21.10.2012 15:13, imacat wrote: >>> I found the following rule in the robots.txt of our wiki: >>> >>> User-Agent: * >>> Disallow: / >>> >>> Does any know if there is any special reason why it is set so? Does >>> any have any reason to keep it? I'm thinking of removing this rule. >> >> +1, blocking all search robots makes no sense. >> Google etc. are also much more successful in finding relevant results to >> non-trivial searches. The wiki-builtin search had many problems [1], >> many of which are fixed in the meantime though. >> >> [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search_issues >> >> Herbert >> > > +1 > -- Best regards, imacat ^_*' <ima...@mail.imacat.idv.tw> PGP Key http://www.imacat.idv.tw/me/pgpkey.asc <<Woman's Voice>> News: http://www.wov.idv.tw/ Tavern IMACAT's http://www.imacat.idv.tw/ Woman in FOSS in Taiwan http://wofoss.blogspot.com/ Apache OpenOffice http://www.openoffice.org/ EducOO/OOo4Kids Taiwan http://www.educoo.tw/ Greenfoot Taiwan http://greenfoot.westart.tw/
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